CATEMA Career and Technology Education Management Application

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CATEMACareer and Technology Education
Management Application

• CATEMA Training Workshop

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CATEMA Training Workshop

• Understand what CATEMA is and what it can do
  for you
• Understand your role in the articulation process
  using CATEMA as a tool
• Understand how to begin using CATEMA immediately

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What is CATEMA?

• A system designed by STATco that is populated
  with our regional data
• An online registration and tracking software for
  Career and Technology Education (CATE) and
  Tech-Prep classes

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CATEMA Training Workshop

• What is CATEMA ?
• Why do we need CATEMA ?
• Who can use CATEMA?
• How does CATEMA work?

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What is CATEMA?

• An easy to use method to enter, update, display,
  and report College Tech-Prep and CATE related
  data
• Currently available in 26 sites in Texas and 4
  other sites nationally
• Potential for statewide and global participation.

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What is CATEMA?

• CATEMA will assist in managing CATE and College
  Tech-Prep information related to
• Courses
• Programs
• Schools
• Colleges
• Instructors
• Students

TO HELP STUDENTS RECEIVE THEIR EARNED COLLEGE
CREDIT!
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Why do we need CATEMA ?

• To eliminate the need for the SCANTRON reporting
  system
• Time consuming
• Excessive paperwork
• Expensive equipment
• Limited info

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Why do we need CATEMA ?

• To increase the number of students receiving
  college credit from College Tech-Prep classes
  upon high school graduation

Source Texas Education Agency, PEIMS
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Why do we need CATEMA ?
Source Texas Education Agency, PEIMS
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Why do we need CATEMA ?
Source Texas Education Agency, PEIMS
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Why do we need CATEMA ?

• Only a small percentage receive credits for
  articulated courses

Source Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
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Why do we need CATEMA ?

• To assist counselors and instructors in advising
  students about the

ARTICULATION PROCESS
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Why do we need CATEMA ?

• ARTICULATION
• Request articulated credits within 28 months of
  graduation.
• Send transcript to EPCC Evaluations Department.
• Enroll in college courses and declare a major
  within the College Tech-Prep pathway.
• Complete the Request for High School Articulated
  Credits form.

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Why do we need CATEMA ?

• To assist counselors and students with career
  counseling
• To assist students in charting their College
  Tech-Prep career pathways to earn college credit
  for their high school classes.
• Students can save tuition, fees and books for
  every articulated college course
• Students can earn from 3 to 15 hours of
  articulated college credit in high school

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Why do we need CATEMA ?

• PORTFOLIOS
• To provide students with an electronic portfolio
  of all CATE/College Tech-Prep course work
  completed
• To record skills learned and training received
  for potential employers to review and consider
• To help students prepare for the transition from
  high school to work

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Why do we need CATEMA ?

• DUAL CREDIT
• College Tech-Prep works in concert with dual
  credit
• New legislation affecting dual credit courses
• Accreditation requirements for instructors

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Why do we need CATEMA?

• CATEMA will help to standardize and refine the
  articulation process by
• Making the program easily accessible to
  everyone in Career and Technology Education
• Minimizing the tasks (paperwork!) required
• Providing data that can be easily obtained and
  printed in detail or summary reports

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Who can use CATEMA?
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Who can use CATEMA?

• Students
• To update their personal info
• To access portfolio of classes for up to three
  years after high school graduation

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Who can use CATEMA?

• Instructors
• To create classes
• To approve student enrollments
• To recommend students for college credit
• To view and print class rosters
• To help ensure students gain college credit

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Who can use CATEMA?

• H.S. Administrators and Counselors
• To review information on courses, instructors,
  and individual classes
• To view a students portfolio of classes
• To view and print rosters
• To assist students with user log-in

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Who can use CATEMA?

• College Registrar/Staff
• To look up students
• To recruit students into Tech-Prep programs at
  the college
• To market target occupational programs at the
  college

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Who can use CATEMA?

• College Tech-Prep Staff
• Approve new user accounts and classes for the
  current school year
• Review and close classes from the previous school
  year
• Update "Courses Available", "Participating
  Districts/Schools" lists
• Run routine summary and detail reports
• Assist school administrators with forgotten user
  names and pass phrases
• To ensure better use of high school Tech-Prep
  credit in college

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How Does CATEMA Work?

• Accessing CATEMA requires the same
  log-in/password method as used in many secure
  internet applications on the web
• If you have ever used the internet for
• E-mail
• Shopping
• Banking
• Etc
• then you should be more than familiar with the
  process for signing in to CATEMA

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How Does CATEMA Work?

• All first time users need to activate an account
  online at
• www.careersprep.com
• To establish an account all users will enter
  their personal info and ID number
• It is the users responsibility to maintain their
  personal information up to date

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How Does CATEMA Work?

• All first-time users will create and log in with
  a user name and password
• You will also have to enter a pass phrase
  question and answer to replace your password
  should you ever forget it
• College Tech-Prep staff will not have access to
  passwords only pass phrase questions

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How Does CATEMA Work?

• CATEMA ID CARDS
• Can be used by both students and instructors to
  record User Names and Passwords

CATEMA Access ID
Go to www.careersprep.com
USER NAME ________________________________ USER
PASSWORD ___________________________
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CATEMA Features

• Student Competency Form
• CATEMA can be adapted to include a list of
  competencies for each College Tech-Prep course
• Instructors rate a students ability in a
  particular course using the online competency form

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CATEMA Features

• Reports
• Instructors, counselors and administrators may
  print class schedules and rosters

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CATEMA Features

• Competencies
• Students may print competency forms for each
  class they have already completed

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CATEMA Features

• Regional Statistics
• College Tech-Prep staff may print statistical
  reports for current and previous school years

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CATEMA Features

• Other reports and information that can be
  obtained from CATEMA include
• Identify CATE/College Tech-Prep classes taught at
  participating schools
• Who are the instructors teaching the classes
• Student totals and demographics
• Contact information and mailing lists
• Coherent course sequences of students

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CATEMA Features

• Security
• CATEMA adheres to all regulations and guidelines
  relating to information privacy
• The system implements security technology to
  protect information that is entered and extracted
• Each user has designated/restricted access
  privileges

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www.careersprep.com

• James Valdez, Director
• Cynthia Marentes, Coordinator
• Michael Rodriguez, Coordinator
• Jessica Martinez, Secretary
• Phone [phone] Fax [phone]
• 6611 Boeing Dr.
• El Paso, TX 79925