Career Pathways: The New Career Technical Education

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Career Pathways The New Career Technical
Education

• Scott Hess - Office of Vocational and Adult
  Education, U.S. Department of Education
• Ann Benson - Education Consultant, Oklahoma

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Clusters and Pathways

• Defining
• Career and Technical Education

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Vocational Education vs. Career and Technical
Education
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Two Major Projects Facilitated by OVAE

• Career Clusters Defines What
• College and Career Transitions Initiative
  (Pathways) Suggests How

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Career Clusters

• An organizing tool defining CTE using 16 broad
  clusters of occupations and 81 pathways with
  validated standards that ensure opportunities for
  all students regardless of their career goals and
  interests.

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Career Pathway

• A career pathway is a coherent, articulated
  sequence of rigorous academic and career related
  courses, commencing in ninth grade and leading to
  an associate degree, and/or an industry-recognized
  certificate or licensure, and/or a baccalaureate
  and beyond.

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Programs of Study (Pathways) As Defined in Perkins
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Perkins Programs of Study

• State approved programs, which may be adopted by
  local education agencies and postsecondary
  institutions to be offered as an option to
  students when planning for and completing future
  coursework, for career and technical content
  areas.

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Perkins Programs of Study

• 1. Incorporate secondary education and
  postsecondary education elements

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Perkins Programs of Study

• 2. Include coherent and rigorous content aligned
  with challenging academic standards and relevant
  career and technical content in a coordinated,
  non-duplicative progression of courses that align
  secondary education with postsecondary education
  to adequately prepare students to succeed in
  postsecondary education

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Perkins Programs of Study
 

• 3. May include the opportunity for secondary
  education students to participate in dual or
  concurrent enrollment programs or other ways to
  acquire postsecondary education credits and

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Perkins Programs of Study

• 4. Lead to an industry-recognized credential or
  certificate at the postsecondary level, or an
  associate or baccalaureate degree.

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Implementation of pathways organized around the
16 clusters provides

• Consistency for better data (results) and shared
  opportunities for development
• Articulation within and between states
• Employer and postsecondary validated standards
• Opportunities for all students
• A place for all career goals and interests

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Essential Questions

• How can the Clusters Pathways help create the
  new CTE?
• What does the work on Plans of Study mean for us
  in our states and schools?

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During the webcast, we hope to

• Raise awareness about the clusters and pathways,
• Create an understanding of terminology,
• Provide an understanding of the knowledge and
  skills,
• Identify components of the POS, and
• Identify strategies for cluster and pathway
  selection.

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2006 HSTW CTE Students Percentage Meeting
Reading Performance Goal-279
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2006 HSTW CTE Students Percentage Meeting
Mathematics Performance Goal-297
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2006 HSTW CTE Students Percentage Meeting
Science Performance Goal-299
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2006 HSTW CTE Students Percentage Having
Intensive Work-based Learning Experiences
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Percent of students who take remedial courses

• 63 at two-year institutions
• 40 at four-year institutions

The Bridge Project Stanford University
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So where do Career Clusters fit in? What are they?

• Career Clusters are groupings of occupations and
  industries
• These groupings are used as an organizing tool
  for
• Curriculum Design
• Instructional Guidance Model
• Seamless Transition

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What about Career Pathways?

• A Career Pathway represents a grouping of
  occupations within a cluster based on
  commonalities

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What are the Plans of Study?

• A sequenced listing of courses, both academic and
  CTE/degree major, that connects students high
  school and postsecondary educational experiences
• A set of course descriptions for the CTE/degree
  major courses based on knowledge and skill
  statements

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• www.careerclusters.org

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The Most Important Aspects of Plans/Programs of
Study

• Cluster Foundation Knowledge and Skills
• Career Pathway Knowledge and Skills

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Carol Clark

• Office of Career and Technical Preparation, MI

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Dennis Engels

• American Counseling Association, Denton, TX

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Bobbie Rogers

• Oklahoma Department of Career Technical Education

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Cynthia Arendt

• Missouri Department of Education

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Karen Alexander

• Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

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Sally Combs

• Consultant, Atlanta, GA

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If we can provide you with any assistance, please
contact us

• Ann Benson
• 405-743-2919 (office)
• 405-880-5383 (cell)
• gben_at_brightok.net

• Scott Hess
• Division of Academic
• and Technical Ed, U.S.
• Department of Ed
• 202-245-7772
• scott.hess_at_ed.gov