Transcript Career Pathways for All Students

Career Pathways for All Students
PreK-14
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Compiled by Sue Updegraff
Keystone AEA
Information from
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Iowa Career Pathways
Iowa School-to-Work
Iowa Tech Prep
Iowa Department of Education
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Why Career Pathways?
• Societal Demands
– Prepare all students for both further education and for
work
– Prepare all students for life’s roles: citizen, worker,
family member
• Lifelong Learning
• Organizer for Restructuring of Education
– Academic standards
– Employability standards
– Technical standards
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Each district will develop
its own unique approach to
PreK-14 Career Pathways.
What is a Career Pathway?
– Concept originated with Iowa Tech Prep
– April 1997 Definition
Career pathways are clusters of specific occupations or careers
grouped together because they share similar interests, strengths,
and skills.
Source: Career Pathways Resource Guide (Iowa Department of Education)
April 1997
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A New Definition, May 1999
• A Career Pathway is a PreK-12+ structure
for organizing instructional content
designed around broad career areas.
Progression in a career pathway is both
vertical and horizontal and provides the
basis for lifelong learning. A Pathway
prepares a student for further education
and/or employment.
Components for
Career Pathway Framework
• Integration of Career Education Standards
and Benchmarks (Employability Standards
and National Career Development
Guidelines) into the PreK-12+ curriculum
for all students.
• Integration of academic and technical
instruction and school-based and workbased experiences.
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Components for
Career Pathway Framework
• Articulation among elementary, middle,
secondary schools, and post-secondary
institutions.
• Preparation of the student for future
employment in a broad occupational cluster
and/or industry sector and/or continued
education.
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Components for
Career Pathway Framework
• Inclusion of career education opportunities for all
students, in depth exploration of careers of
interest to the student, and the understanding of
the relevance of academic content in the
workplace.
• Inclusion of specific occupational preparation
which may link two years of secondary education
with a two year or four year educational
institution or an apprenticeship program.
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Six Career Pathways
• Agriscience/Natural
• Engineering/Industrial/
Resources
Technological Sciences
• Arts and
• Family and Human
Communications
Services
• Business/Information
• Health Services
Management/Marketing
Endorsed in spring of 1996 by Iowa School-to-Work and the Iowa
Association of Business and Industry.
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Broadening of Career Pathways
to a System-wide Approach
• From 2+2 to PreK-14+
• Merged Area Systems View
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Community Colleges
AEAs
Communities
Counties
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Results of Systems-Approach
• Increased options for all students
• Connected series of educational experiences
leading to goals
• Broad areas of study that are flexible,
overlapping in nature, fluid
• Mixture of academic, employability, career
education, and technical education
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How do Career
Pathways fit into the
Iowa Comprehensive
School Improvement
Plans developed by
each district?
CSIP Components
Community Involvement
Data Collection, Analysis, and Goal Setting
Standards and Benchmarks
Determination and Implementation of Actions to meet the Needs
(Action Planning)
State Indicators
Assessment of Student Progress
Evaluation of CSIP
Annual Progress Report
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Comprehensive School
Improvement Plan
Purposes
• To address all aspects of teaching and
learning
• To ensure a continuous improvement
process
• To create integrated organizations with
shared visions and shared goals
• To improve educational outcomes for all
students
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Comprehensive School
Improvement Plan
Purposes
• To provide for local decision-making
• To increase the learning, achievement, and
performance of all students
• To incorporate the consolidation of federal
and state planning, goals setting, and
reporting requirements.
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Community Involvement
School Improvement
- Participation of all stakeholders
- Advisory Committee
- Vision, mission, beliefs
- Determination of major needs
- Establishment of Student Learning Goals
Career Pathways
- Continuous participation and support of
business, industry , labor, parents, community
- Clear vision and mission which include
preparation of all students for further education
and work
- Gathering information from stakeholders as to
what the needs for preparing students look like
- Clear expectations of what graduates will look
like
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Data Collection, Analysis and
Goal Setting
School Improvement
- Continuous data collection
- Data-driven decision-making
- Collect data by groups
Career Pathways
- Determine current achievement status
- Use data to move forward goals and initiatives
- Address all students
Systems Approach
•Why data is important
• What data needs to be collected
•How to use and analyze the data
• How to communicate the data results
•How to use the data to inform decisions
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Categories for organization of
the data collection process
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Demographics
Perceptions
Student Learning
School Processes/Programs
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Student Learning
• Overall student achievement
• Number of graduates with a career plan
• Student application of academic
content
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Demographics
• Drop-out rate
• Post-secondary education rate
• Employment/earnings
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Perceptions
• Business/Industry satisfaction
• Student satisfaction
• Parent satisfaction
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School Processes
• Where are employability skills addressed in
the curriculum?
• Where is career development addressed in
the curriculum?
• Integrated curricula results
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Standards & Benchmarks
School Improvement
- Establish standards and benchmarks in
1. Reading, Math, Science
2. Other curricular areas
3. Social, emotional, behavioral areas
- Incorporate into the educational program
career education, multicultural and gender fair
education, technology integration, global
education, higher-order thinking skills,
learning skills, communication skills.
- Meet individual student needs by selection of
curriculum goals, instructional strategies, and
learning activities.
- Connect standards to student assessment.
Career Pathways
- Determine what the district wants students to
know and be able to do:
1. Content standards
2. Employability standards
3. Career area standards
4. Technical standards
- Incorporation areas are blended with the four
sets of standards
- Career Pathways standards and benchmarks
are for all students
- Assessing if standards and benchmarks are
achieved
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Framework of
Standards & Benchmarks
Student Learning Goals
Standards
Benchmarks
Assessment
Delivery
Reporting
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The Career Pathways Framework breaks out
the standards and benchmarks as follows:
PreK-14 Iowa Career Pathways Framework
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Academic Knowledge & Skills (K-14)
Employability Knowledge & Skills (K-14)
Career Area Knowledge and Skills (K-14)
Technical Cluster Knowledge & Skills (9-12)
Career & Technical Knowledge & Skills (11-14)
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Determination & Implementation
of Actions to Meet the Needs
School Improvement
 Perform gap analysis on current learning
environment, research, theory, and
experience to evaluate what goals and
needs are
 Plan for changes in curriculum and
instruction
 Implement plans and monitor progress
continuously
 Provide support through professional
development
Career Pathways
 Based on needs assessment and research,
changes needed are determined
 Research the possible curriculum and
instructional strategies and select ones that
can fulfill needs
 Implement actions and track progress
 Provide support through professional
development for all partners.
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The Iowa Department of Education Technical
Assistance manual (p. 43) states that the action
planning phase: Identifies the most powerful
innovations:
• to address student needs
•to improve educator’s skills, attitudes,
understanding, and performances.
Implementation
•Curriculum Restructuring
•Professional Development
•Learning Environment
Percep tio ns
Scho o l Prog ram
Research
Need s
Assess ment
Articles & Boo ks
Demog raph ics
Nation al Repo rts
Data requ ired for
State & Fed eral
p rog rams
Internal
Data Collection
External
Data Collection
Stud en t Learn ing
Goals
State In d icators
Analysis
(what does the
information tells us?)
Action Plan
Action Plan
Finance
Establish Long Range
& Annual Goals
Facilities
Human Res ou rces
Stud en t Learn ing
Action Plan
In frastructure
Action Plan
Pub lic Relatio ns
Action Plan
Action Plan
Nation al
Organizatio ns
Curriculum Restructuring
Student Learning Goals
Standards
Benchmarks
Assessment
Integrated, Articulated Curricula
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Integration Continuum
Restructured Curriculum
Career Pathway
Tech Prep
Course Sequence
Applied Academics
Academy or School-within-a-School
Career Maps
Integration of Standards
Thematic Units
Incorporation Areas
Curriculum Integration
Program Integration
Program and
Curriculum
Integration
Professional Development
To implement the curriculum restructuring, staff &
community will need some learning opportunities:
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Understanding the New Culture
Change Process
Collaboration
Partnership
Teacher Internships
Reaching ALL Students
Assessment
Alternative Scheduling
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Professional Development
Learning Environment and Delivery Methods
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Applied Learning
Contextual Learning
Learning Styles
Multiple Intelligences
Work-based Learning
Service Learning
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Team Teaching
Career Development
Individual Learning Plan
Career Maps
Advisor/Advisee Program
Project-based Learning
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Link to: Student Learning Goals
Standards
Benchmarks
Assessment
Career Development
• A Goal for Most Iowa Districts
– Preparing our students for decision-making about their
life goals
Question: Is a Career Development, PreK-14+,
system built into action planning? What could it
look like?
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PreK-5: Career Awareness
Content
Self-Knowledge
Strategies
Interest Aptitude Inventories, Use of Career Portfolio
Basic Skills
Educational Relevance of Curriculum Content
Community Awareness of
Pathways
Involvement with Role Models, Job Shadowing, Field Trips,
Service Learning
Attitudes and Work Ethics
Curriculum Integration, Portfolio
Employability Standards
Credentialing
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Grades 6-8: Career Exploration
Content
Linking Interests with Career
Themes
Strategies
Inventories, Learning Styles, Multiple Intelligences
Life roles, Life Planning
Portfolio
Interpersonal Skills and
Employability Skills
Credentialing, Working in Teams, Student Clubs
Exploration of Opportunities in
World of Work
Decision-Making Process
Tentative Educational and Career
Plans
Classifications and Clustering, Job Shadowing Projectbased Experiences, Youth-Based Enterprises, Career
Pathways
Parental Input, Collection of Inventories, Overview of
Career Portfolio, Mentor/Advisor, General Career Map
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Grades 9-12: Career Preparation
Content
Continual Review of Career
Plan
Strategies
Student/Advisor Review of Plan
Class or Hands-on Exploration, Community Mentor
Exploration of Career Areas
(Grades 9-10)
Technical Preparation in
Career Core (Grades 11-12)
Laddered Programs, such as Tech Prep, Apprenticeship
leading to Advanced Placement, and Transition. College
Visits
Advanced Academic Skills
Applied Academics and/or High Level Academics
Contextual Learning
Work-based Learning
Job Shadowing, Work Place Readiness Class,
Internship, Structured Work Experience, Volunteerism,
School Club Leadership, Work Simulations
Credentialing, Integrated Courses
Standards/Benchmarks
Employability Standards
Academic Standards
Technical Standards
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Community College or
Four Year Institution
Content
Core plus Specialty (standards)
Strategies
Certification
Advanced Skills
Certification
Work-based Learning
Summer work, Internship, Apprenticeship, Capstone
Experience
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State Indicators
School Improvement
 Annually report district general condition in
1. Reading
2. Math
3. Science
4. Dropouts
5. Post-secondary education intentions
6. Probable post-secondary success
7. Core program completion
Career Pathways
 Establish indicators of progress
1. The Iowa Indicators will be useful
data for career pathways
2. Other indicators/data needed such
as achievement on selected
standards beyond reading, math,
science; Tech Prep program
completion, percent of students
graduating with a career plan, etc.
 Track performance over time
 Use data to inform decisions and establish
goals
 Use data to inform decisions
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Data Collection Assists With...
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Improvement of Instruction
Development of Curriculum
Evaluation of Programs
Student Feedback
Reaching All Students
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Assessment of Student Progress
School Improvement
 Assessments are linked to standards and
benchmarks
Career Pathways
 Assessments serve to inform student
achievement on standards and benchmarks
 Assessment plan is developed
 Measures of success are established prior to
implementation of action plans
 Assessments are available for all students
 Accommodations and interventions help all
students be successful
 Assessment plan uses data to make
decisions
 Data informs decisions
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Evaluation of CSIP
School Improvement
 District has strategies to collect data and
information to determine if plan has
accomplished established goals
1. Monitoring student progress toward
standards
2. Tracking district progress in
implementation of goals
Career Pathways
 Progress and plans are continuously
monitored and revised
 Progress is reported to public
 Stakeholders are informed of progress
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Annual Progress Report
School Improvement
 Progress is reported annually to multiple
stakeholder groups
 Report includes
1. Results on state indicators
2. Results on district indicators
3. Measures to be taken if goals are
not met
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 Annual checkpoints are built into the
overall evaluation plan
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Conclusion
• Career Pathways is a school improvement
initiative
• Career Pathways fits into the Iowa process for the
comprehensive school improvement plan.
• Career Pathways can help address the
advancement of student learning.
• Career Pathways can help address the major
educational needs of a community and school
district.
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