Career

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Career Tech Ed PathwaysTool for Seamless
Educational Transition

• Real World Rigor and Relevance
• With High Skill, High Wage, and Higher Ed
  Opportunities For ALL Students

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Career Clusters Model

• Organizes the occupations, within each cluster,
  into pathways that group the cluster occupations
  based on commonalities

Career Clusters Definition

• Career Clusters represent a grouping of
• occupations and broad industries based on
• commonalities
• Instructional Guidance Model

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Career Clusters Why?

• Career-focused strategy supporting
• Educational reform
• Workforce preparation
• Economic prosperity

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What Career Clusters Do

• Provide a framework that current programs slot
  into
• Provide MORE career options for ALL learners
• Provide a framework for addressing the entire
  world of work
• Blend rigorous academic/technical preparation
• Provide relevance to career planning
• Offers options for ALL students to experience all
  aspects of industry
• Facilitate/assists students with transitions
• Enhances partnerships with Community/Industry/High
  er Ed

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What Career Clusters Dont Do

• Take away current programs
• Take away occupational areas
• Track learners into a single job
• Cause D11 to need to create new programs

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Career Clusters Educational Reform

• Help develop employability, academic and
  technical skills
• Build a repertoire of skills within the broad
  context of a career
• Enhance career guidance and transitions
• Add relevance to the curriculum
• Provide smoother transitions between educational
  levels
• Provide for re-tooling, changing careers

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Career Clusters Benefits

• Learners are more likely to enroll in rigorous
  and relevant coursework
• Enhanced guidance services through the cluster
  models identification of many careers and their
  pathways
• Aligned linkages from secondary feeder programs
  to academic and/or technical postsecondary
  education
• Learners better equipped for successful career
  transitions

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Career ClustersWorkforce Preparation

• Driven by local business/industry and economic
  development
• Prepare the emerging workforce
• Cross-Train/re-tool the workforce
• Build a flexible, Gold Collar workforce

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Career ClustersEconomic Prosperity

• The career clusters framework is the educational
  undergirding of industry clusters.
• Career clusters are industry groupings of
  occupations with common knowledge and skills.
• Industry clusters are geographic concentrations
  of related businesses and industries.

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Transition to 21st Century Workplaces
From To Management Functions Centralized/Se
parated Decentralized/Shared Professional/Technic
al Centralized/Specialized Decentralized/Integrate
d Knowledge Some Workers All
Workers Work Design Jobs Functional/Cross-
functional Teams Organizational
Structure Vertical Hierarchies Customer-Supplier
Networks Employee Responsibility Job
Task Performance Work Unit Performance
Management Business Process Career
Progression Vertical Vertical and
Horizontal Limited Range Full
Range
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National Career Clusters Titles

• Agriculture, Food Natural Resources
• Architecture Construction
• Arts, Audio/Video Technology Communications
• Business, Management Administration
• Education Training
• Finance
• Government Public Administration
• Health Science

• Hospitality Tourism
• Human Services
• Information Technology
• Law, Public Safety Security
• Manufacturing
• Marketing, Sales Service
• Science, Technology, Engineering Mathematics
• Transportation, Distribution Logistics

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Tips for Getting Started

• Use resources to
• Enhance existing programs.
• Strengthen/align programs, courses, and skill
  sets.
• Serve as a career theme for career academies,
  small learning communities, schools within
  schools, charter schools, home schooling and
  magnet schools.

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Three Basic Implementation Stages
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Resources

• www.okcareertech.org/iis
• www.okcareertech.org/guidance
• www.careerclusters.org
• Preferred Product/Technical Assistance Providers
• Brochures
• Career Cluster Resources CD (only place to obtain
  printed copy of Knowledge Skills)
• Posters
• Pathway Models
• Plans of Study (see Plan of Study handout)
• Interest Inventories/Surveys
• Assessments Workplace Readiness, Cluster
  Specific
• Annual Career Clusters Institute
• www.careervoyages.com