What is Career Technical Education? Presented by Michelle

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What is Career Technical Education?
Presented by Michelle Oliveira, Education
Programs Consultant
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California CTE Frameworks Defines CTE as

• Organized educational activities that provide
  coherent, rigorous content aligned with
  challenging academic standards and relevant
  technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare
  for further education and careers in current or
  emerging professions. CTE provides technical
  skill proficiency, a industry-recognized
  credential, a certificate, or a degree and
  includes competency-based applied learning that
  contributes students academic knowledge,
  higher-order reasoning and problem-solving
  skills, attitudes toward work, general
  employability skills, technical skills,
  occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all
  aspects of an industry including entrepreneurship.

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Coherent and Rigorous Content

• Utilizes the CTE Framework for California Public
  Schools
• Follows the California Career Technical Education
  Model Curriculum Standards
• Aligned to the 15 Industry Sectors and 58 Pathways

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Aligned with Challenging Academic Standards

• Mathematics
• Science
• History/Social Science
• Visual and Performing Arts
• English Language Arts (Reading, Writing, etc.)

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Relevant Technical Knowledge and Skills Needed

• Validated by industry advisors currently working
  in industry

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Prepare for Further Education and Careers

• High School (diploma) Entry Technical Skill
  Level
• Postsecondary Training Middle Technical
• Certification, Skill Level
• AA Degree
• College or University Advanced Technical
• Bachelors Degree Skill Level
• or Higher

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Current or Emerging Professions

• Labor Market Data/Analysis

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CTE State Plan

• Vision
• Mission
• High Quality CTE

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CTE State Plan Vision

• Career Technical Education will engage every
  student in high-quality, rigorous, and relevant
  educational pathways and programs, developed in
  partnership with business and industry, promoting
  creativity, innovation, leadership, community
  service, and lifelong learning, and allowing
  students to turn their passions into paychecks
  their dreams into careers.

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CTE Mission

• The mission of CTE is to provide industry-linked
  programs and services that enable all individuals
  to reach their career goals in order to achieve
  economic self-sufficiency, compete in the global
  marketplace, and contribute to Californias
  economic prosperity.

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The 11 Elements of a High Quality CTE System
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High Quality vs. Non Negotiables

• If our goal is to operate a High Quality CTE
  System, then can we consider the 11 Elements of a
  High Quality CTE System to be Non- negotiables?

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If yes, lets take a look at

• Leadership at All Levels
• Requires institutional commitment and leadership
  at every level
• Who are our CTE Champions?

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High Quality Curriculum and Instruction

• Offers rigorous integrated technical and academic
  content, focused on careers, delivered through
  applied performance and project based teaching
  strategies, and transferable workplace and career
  management skills.
• Includes Work-based learning

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Work-based Learning as Defined in the CTE
Framework

• Work-based learning Course-linked learning
  experiences that are outside the classroom and
  include and employer or community connection.
  Examples include pre-apprenticeship, job
  shadowing, mentorship, internship, clinical
  experience, work-study, informational interview,
  attendance at trade shows, field experience,
  career-related service learning, or other
  learning experience fundamentally external to the
  classroom.

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Student Support and Student Leadership Development

• Ranges from transportation, child care,
  translation services, mentoring, coaching for
  success in highly challenging CTE competitions
  and projects (CTSOs), transitions to new career
  opportunities, outreach, etc.

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Career Technical Student Organizations (CTSOs)

• Structured leadership development
• Competitive career-related events
• Community service
• DECA, FBLA, FFA, FHA-HERO, HOSA, and SkillsUSA

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Industry Partnerships

• Include business, industry, labor and trade
  organizations who work through advisory
  committees, forums, etc. to inform CTE program
  design, instruction, assessment, and offer
  work-based learning experiences

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System Alignment and Coherence

• Pathway development
• Course sequencing (AB 2448)
• Programs of Study
• Articulation

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Career Pathway

• A coherent, planned sequence of career technical
  education courses detailing the knowledge and
  technical skills students need to succeed in a
  specific career area.

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Pathway Development
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Programs of Study

• A Program of Study is a multi-year sequence of
  academic and technical courses that provides
  students with a structured progression of
  secondary and post-secondary instruction toward a
  specified career area. By incorporating academic
  and technical content into a logical sequence
  with clear connections and minimal repetition,
  Programs of Study set a clear path of career
  technical coursework from middle school through
  college to a rewarding career.

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Sample Program of Study
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Sample Program of Study
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Learn More about Programs of Study
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Skilled Faculty and Professional Development

• Requires Californias faculty to be expert in
  many areas
• Technical skills in their field
• Transferable essential workplace skills
• Academic skills required of practitioners in
  their career area
• CTE Credential-qualified

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Evaluation, Accountability, and Continuous
Improvement

• Evaluation/Accountability are Key
• any discussion of accountability must focus on
  utilizing, aligning, and expanding upon existing
  systems, and must emphasize program improvement
  along with reporting of compliance-driven data.
• Data is Key

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CTE promotion, outreach, and communication

• In order to ensure continued support for CTE, its
  benefits must be validated and made more widely
  known to students, parents, educators,
  counselors, community members, and policy makers
  based on evidence of its impacts.

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Current Status of CTE

• One million secondary students enrolled annually
• 226,575 adult students enrolled in ROCP and Adult
  Education CTE courses
• 85 of Career Technical Education students taking
  a sequence of courses graduated HS
• Enrollments in secondary CTE courses declined 15
  from 1997-98 to 2004-05
• Highest enrollment areas include Business and
  Administrative Services, Information Technology,
  Health, and Arts, Media Entertainment
• A-G approved CTE courses Over 10,000

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CTE course enrollment compared to total high
school enrollment, 1993-2005
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CTE Funding Over the Years
Local Funds NA
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Charting a New Course for CTE
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PAST
FUTURE
One Direction
Two Directions
College
Work
Preparing for College OR Career
Preparing for College AND Career
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PAST FUTURE
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Initiatives in CTE

• Federal Perkins Legislation
• State Plan for CTE
• CTE Standards and Framework
• SB 70 Governors CTE Initiative
• Partnership Academies
• Multiple Pathways Report

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Meeting the Challenge

• Rigor in Academics and Career Technical Education
  programs
• Results Employment
• CTE brings relevance to classroom instruction and
  student success
• Move from entitlement to investment

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Michelle OliveiraEducation Programs
ConsultantSecondary, Career, and Adult Learning
Divisionmoliveira_at_cde.ca.gov 916.319.0675FAX
916.323.2597

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