K16Adult Career Development: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Title: K16Adult Career Development:


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Marylands CTE Educating Tomorrows Workforce
Today
The Maryland Career Development Framework

• K-16/Adult Career Development
• A Systematic Process for Educating the
• Workforce of the 21st Century

Katharine M. Oliver Maryland State Department of
Education Division of Career Technology and Adult
Learning koliver_at_msde.state.md.us 410.767.0158
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Presentation Objectives

• Provide an update on the implementation of the
  Maryland Career Development Framework.
• Discuss strategies to achieve National and State
  goals.

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Purpose for Development

• Provide systematic delivery of key career
  development concepts for all learners.
• Equip teachers, administrators, and counselors
  with the knowledge and skills needed to assist
  students and parents with career exploration,
  educational opportunities, and education
  financing.
• Make available to students, parents, teachers,
  administrators, and counselors information and
  planning resources that relate educational
  preparation to career goals and expectations.

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Purpose for Development

• Support career guidance and academic counseling
  programs to promote improved career and education
  decision-making by individuals.
• Enhance employability skill development using
  national career development standards.
• Improve coordination and communications among
  administrators and planners of WIA and Perkins
  supported programs to ensure non-duplication of
  efforts and the appropriate use of shared
  information and data.

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Changing Workplace
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Purpose for Development

• 10 Career Cluster Frameworks
• Arts, Media and Communication
• Business Management Finance
• Consumer Services, Hospitality, and Tourism
• Construction Development
• Environmental, Agricultural, and Natural
  Resources Systems
• Health Biosciences
• Human Resource Services
• Information Technology
• Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology
• Transportation Technologies

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Implementation Goals

• Provide Support for
• Increased Student/Adult Achievement
• Improved Decision-making and Academic and Career
  Planning
• Focused Coordination of Workforce Development
  Services

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Maryland Career Development Framework
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Maryland Career Development Framework
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Maryland Career Development Framework
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Maryland Career Development Framework
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Maryland Career Development Framework
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Maryland Career Development Framework
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Maryland Career Development Framework

• Spans Pre-K to Adult
• Driven by standards
• Aligns with the Voluntary State Curriculum (VSC)
• Includes companion resources
• Activities and Curriculum (Grades 7-12)
• Adult Career Development Toolkit
• Provides a systemic approach for schools and
  workforce community for career advisement
• Stresses both academic and career planning

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Code of Maryland Regulations COMAR

• Proposed Changes (13A.04.10.01.02)
• A systematic instructional program in career
  development and decision-making in accordance
  with the Maryland Career Development Framework
  and Maryland Career Clusters for all students in
  grades Kindergarten 12.
• Ensure that prior to grade 9 all students shall
  develop an individual and academic career plan
  and update it in subsequent years after its
  development.
• The comprehensive instructional program shall
  provide for diversity of student needs,
  abilities, and interests at the early, middle,
  and high school learning years and shall include
  the six career development content standards.

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Maryland Career Development Framework K-12
Resources

• Middle/High School Career Guidance and Advisory
  Resources
• Grade Specific (Grades 7-12)
• Every student has a faculty advisor
• Structured around monthly advisement calendars
• Includes 6 year academic and career plan

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Maryland Career Development Framework Adult
Resources

• Standards integrated with the National Institute
  for Literacy Equipped For the Future Content
  Standards/Work Readiness Credential
• Learning activities build basic work essential
  skills in the context of job search and
  employment related tasks
• Curriculum uses Video, Print and Web-Based
  Resources
• www.uschamber.com/icw/strategies/workreadinesscred
  ential.htm
• http//eff.cls.utk.edu
• http//workreadiness.com/credential.html

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Maryland Career Development Framework Adult
Resources

• Five Toolkits
• Helping Clients Assess and Improve Their Work
  Readiness
• Helping Clients Identify a Career Path
• Helping Clients Get the Job
• Helping Clients Keep the Job and Advance
• Helping Clients Transition to Higher Education
• www.marylandpublicschools.org
• docushare.msde.state.md.us
• Adult Literacy
• Public

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Equipped For the Future (EFF) Standards for Adult
Learning
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The Partners
The Maryland Career Development Council

• Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE)
• Career Technology and Adult Learning
• Student, Family and School Support
• Instruction
• Special Education
• Rehabilitation Services
• Maryland Higher Education System

• University System of Maryland
• Community Colleges
• Local School Systems
• Governors Workforce Investment Board
• Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and
  Regulation
• One Stop Centers
• Workforce Investment Areas

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Customers K-16/Adult and Correctional Education

• Elementary, Middle, High school students
• Post Secondary students
• High school dropouts
• Adults with disabilities
• Adult learners

• Family literacy seekers
• Unemployed/underemployed
• Career changers
• Immigrants 16 years and up
• Incarcerated

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Customers One-Stop Centers
Job-Seekers (Adults Youth)

• Unemployed and underemployed
• Ex-Offenders
• Incumbent Workers
• Adults with disabilities
• Public assistance customers

• Veterans
• Seniors
• Immigrants
• Migrant/Seasonal
• Low literacy

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Discussion

• Broader Implementation of the Maryland Career
  Development Framework
• Expanded Professional Development for staff at
  all levels
• Additional Considerations

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Contact Information

• Maryland State Department of Education
• 200 West Baltimore Street
• Baltimore, MD 21201-2595
• www.marylandpublicschools.org
• Susan Oskin
• 410-767-0635
• soskin_at_msde.state.md.us