A Vision for the Future: Oklahomas Career Clusters Design for the Transportation, Distribution

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A Vision for the Future Oklahomas Career
Clusters Design for the Transportation,
Distribution Logistics Career Cluster
April 4, 2007
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Purpose

• Our challenge
• Our solution
• When will it happen?

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Why?

• Our economy is changing to
• Technology-driven
• Knowledge-based
• Global
• Increased employer demands

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Why?

• Supports 6 Major Initiatives
• EDGE
• Governors Council for Workforce and Economic
  Development
• The Alliance Initiative
• The new Carl Perkins Legislation
• No Child Left Behind
• Achieving Classroom Excellence

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Our Solution

• A model that
• Fits our mission to help Oklahomans succeed in
  the workplace, education and life
• Prepares students for a broad range of career
  options
• Employment
• Technical and postsecondary education
• Lifelong learning
• Increases our ability to meet industry
  expectations

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Our Solution

• Adopts the national career clusters framework
  consisting of 16 clusters and 81 defined pathways
• Adds components unique to Oklahoma
• Career majors (339)
• Courses (1501 unduplicated)
• Allows us to become industry-focused,
  student-centered, and performance- driven

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Our Solution

• A new instructional framework
• Extensive professional development
• Revised core business processes

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New Instructional Framework

• Realigning existing programs to a sequence of
  courses (career majors) based on
  industry-identified
• Knowledge
• Skill
• Credentials

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Programs to Courses

• Using the Career Clusters Model

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Cluster
A career cluster is a grouping of occupations and
broad industries based on commonalities. A
career cluster represents the knowledge and
skills, both academic and technical, that all
students within the cluster should achieve
regardless of their pathway.
Pathway
Career Major
Course
Knowledge Skills
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Sixteen Career Clusters

• The Career Clusters icons are being used with
  permission of the States Career Clusters
  Initiative, 2007.

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Transportation, Distribution Logistics Cluster
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Transportation, Distribution Logistics
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Cluster

• A pathway is a more narrow grouping of
  occupations and broad industries within a career
  cluster.
• The pathway represents the knowledge and skills,
  both academic and technical, necessary to pursue
  a full range of career opportunities within a
  pathway - ranging from entry level to management,
  including technical and professional career
  specialties.

Pathway
Career Major
Course
Knowledge Skills
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Automotive Service Pathway
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A career major is a model sequence of courses or
field of study that prepares a student for a
career and ensures that Integration occurs
between academic and occupational
learning Transitions are established between
secondary schools and postsecondary
institutions Students are prepared for
employment in a broad career cluster
and Students receive a skill credential.
Cluster
Pathway
Career Major
Course
Knowledge Skills
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Maintenance/Light Repair Technician
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A course is an instructional unit that includes a
set of defined competencies, a syllabus or course
outline, and a measure of accountability,
evaluation, or assessment. A course may be
occupational, exploratory, academic,
foundational, or competency development.
Cluster
Pathway
Career Major
Course
Knowledge Skills
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Electrical/Electronics Introduction
Automotive Electrical/Electronics Introduction
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Cluster
Knowledge and Skills are specific work tasks
performed on the job. They are a large enough
task to be valued in and of themselves, and are
measurable and observable.
Pathway
Career Major
Course
Knowledge Skills
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National Automotive Technicians Education
Foundation
Knowledge Skills
Cluster
Pathway
Career Major
Operation of a Digital Volt Ohm Meter (DVOM)
Course
Knowledge Skills
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College Course Equivalency Matrix Credits
Automotive Service Electrical Introduction Automo
tive Service Electrical Fundamentals Automotive
Service Electrical Advanced
Automotive Technology AST-1164 Electrical/Electron
ic Systems 240 Clock Hours 64 Competencies 4 C
ollege Credits
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Revising Core Business Processes

• CareerTech Information System (CTIS)
• Programs to courses transition
• Accreditation and evaluation standards
• Financial aid requirements
• Performance measures
• Career major approval process
• CareerTech rules
• Funding structure

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Revising Core Business Processes

• Professional Development
• Communication and Marketing
• Carl Perkins IV

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How?

• Create Teams that will Seek Input from
• Technology Centers
• Comprehensive Schools
• Skills Centers
• Education and economic development partners

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When?

• Initial frameworks submitted for entry into CTIS
  March 1, 2007
• Initial frameworks available to schools March
  15, 2007
• Course competencies identified, leveled and
  formatted June 1, 2007
• Performance measures developed, and input
  gathered from the field March 1, 2007 May 1,
  2007

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When?

• Business processes developed and input gathered
  from the field March 1, 2007 May 1, 2007
• Business processes finalized June 1, 2007
• Performance measures finalized June 1, 2007
• Communications and marketing plan developed and
  input gathered from the field March 1, 2007
  May 1, 2007
• Communications and marketing plan finalized June
  1, 2007

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When?

• Initial Professional Development, Instructional
  Tools and Resources Identified June 1, 2007
• Summer Conference Dedicated to Communications and
  Professional Development Regarding Career
  Clusters and CTIS August 2007
• Communications and Professional Development
  Ongoing, August 2007 August 2008

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When?

• School develop their instructional frameworks
  March 2007 January 2008
• CTIS deployment June 2008
• Schools submit student enrollment to ODCTE by
  career major Fall 2008
• Schools submit student enrollment to ODCTE by
  career major and course Fall 2009

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Questions?