Transcript Demographics & Workforce Group

Summer 2011
Who Should Be Responsible for Basic Knowledge
and Applied Skills?
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
K-12
4-Year col.
Students
2-year col.
Gov’t
Other
Source: Are They Really Ready for Work, 2006
• Secondary teachers have the responsibility for teaching
the WRS.
• The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) has
reinforced this by requiring instruction of the new 21
skills in every CTE course.
• The VDOE and the CTE Resource Center expanded its
instructional resources for teaching the WRS.
• The number preceding each skill is hot-linked to these
activities, lessons, and Web sites.
• Additional resources are added as they are identified.
• Teachers may wish to cover the WRS in the first few
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weeks of school or as an instructional unit.
Or, instructors can look for course content that might
already cover a WRS and teach them together.
For example, teaching a task similar to “Explore career
and college options for lifelong learning” most likely
also addresses WRS # 13 and 14.
When evaluating a student’s performance on this
course-specific task, the teacher can easily document
his or her performance on these two WRS.
The CanDo competency tracking system makes
recording student performance on multiple tasks very
easy.
• Is a Virginia-specific assessment that addresses all 21 skills
• Is a stand-alone test (does not have to be combined with
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any other assessment)
Was approved by the Board of Education in March 2011
Was developed by CTECS, the consortium that was a vital
part of the research and development of the new 21 skills
Is less expensive than most industry credentials ($9.00 per
test)
Is an industry credential that, when successfully completed,
can be used for student-selected verified credit.
CTE Resource Center
[email protected]
http://cteresource.org
804-673-3778