EMERGING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CONFERENCE

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• EMERGING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CONFERENCE

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CONFERENCE FOCUS

• Increase Educators Ability to Establish Goals.
• Building a Strong Technology Workforce Curriculum
  
• Establish Goals for Students to Support Science
  and Technology.
• Establish Strategies and Work Groups to Create
  Solutions.

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FEATURES OF THE COURSE

• COLLABORATION
• REVISION OF PRACTICES AND POLICIES
• INNOVATION
• EVOLUTION OF NEW METHODS AND STRATEGIES.

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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

• WORKFORCE BOARDS
• APPOINTED BY GOVERNORS
• OVERSIGHT RESPONSIBILITY
• COLORADO STATE BOARD
• HISTORY AND OVERVEIW ON STATE BOARD

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MISSION

• TO FILL THE CONTINUALLY CHANGING NEEDS OF
  THE STATES EMPLOYERS AND HELP THEM STAY
  COMPETITIVE IN THE GLOBAL MARKET

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Goals

• Make Education Workforce Development Colorados
  1 Economic Development Priority
• Support Local Workforce Boards in sector based
  activities that produce high skilled workers
• Support local efforts to strengthen regional
  economies
• Offer a System that meets the needs of Colorado
  Business, Communities and Workers

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• THE COUNCIL STRUCTURE
• REGIONS
• CURRENT RESULTS

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THE COMPETITIVENESS CHALLENGE
THERE IS A GROWING GAP BETWEEN THE KNOWLEDGE
BASED, TECHNOLOGY- INTENSIVE JOBS THAT ARE
DRIVING THE US ECONOMY AND THE SKILLS OF AMERICAN
WORKERS. EDUCATION IS THE TOP NATIONAL SECURITY
ISSUE OF THE 21ST CENTURY. FAILURE TO ACT NOW
WILL PUT THE ECONOMIC WELL BEING OF OUR CITIZENS,
THE PRODUCTIVITY OF OUR BUSINESSES AND THE
ECONOMIC SECURITY OF OUR NATION AT RISK thin.
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THE COMPETITIVENESS CHALLENGE
Unless the skills gap within the United States is
closed and employers can find the workers they
need, and job-seekers have the skills to pursue
the opportunities that will exist, then Americas
economy will remain extremely vulnerable.
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CHALLENGES FOR THE WORKFORCE SYSTEM

• LABOR SHORTAGE.
• SKILLS GAP
• MATH AND SCIENCE TEACHERS
• NUMBER OF SKILLED WORKERS PRODUCED

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Visions for the Workforce System

• The workforce development system of the 21st
  century must be
• Innovative
• Business-driven
• Customer-Oriented
• Performance-based,
• WORLD CLASS-agile enough to adapt to rapid
  changes in
• the economy and responsive to its customers

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Recommendation 1

• Design a workforce investment system that is
  demand-driven
• Engage business and industry as full partners
• Customize education and training programs to
  the needs of both employers and
  students/employees
• Increase technical assistance to small and
  medium- sized businesses

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Recommendation 2

• Actively promote lifelong learning, retraining,
  and upgrading of the workforce
• Promote the development and use of portable
  credentials
• Design programs to meet diverse needs of
  workers
• Develop a creative incentive system to spur
  human capital investments to fill critical
  skills gaps

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Recommendation 3

• Transform the workforce development systems
  alignmentaccountability systems, funding
  mechanisms, and management.
• Establish a business-led, federal level
  oversight board/task force, including major
  federal partners and a strong business majority,
  to guide the system and advise the President and
  Congress on workforce development issues

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Recommendation 4

• Transform the workforce systems image, culture
  and philosophy
• Develop and disseminate a vision of a
  world-class workforce system
• Position and promote the education and
  workforce systems as ones that serve all
  individual learners, job seekers, and business
  customers

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Recommendation 5

• OVERHAUL LABOR MARKET INFORMATION,
• MORE CURRENT AND USER FRIENDLY
• NEW TOOLS
• FACT BASED DECISION MAKING SUPPORTED
• SAMPLES AVAILABLE

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GOLD COLLAR WORKERS

• CHANGING EVENTS
• DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES
• PHOTONICS
• NANOTECHNOLOGY

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GOLD COLLAR WORKER AND NANOTECHNOLOGY

• PEOPLE ARE ESSENTIAL TO NANOTECHNOLOGY
• COLORADOS GREAT CHALLENGE
• WHITE COLAR MIND PLUS BLUE COLLAR HANDS
• MISSION FOR EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE

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QUESTIONS FOR LEADERS OF EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE
HOW WILL WE ORGANIZE TO CREATE AN ADVANCED
TECHNOLOGY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT? HOW SHALL WE
PREPARE EDUCATORS AND COUNSELORS TO ENABLE THEM
TO TRAIN AND GUIDE 21ST CENTURY TACHNOLOGY
WORKERS?
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QUESTIONS FOR LEADERS OF EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE
HOW WILL WE VALUE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND
LIFELONG LEARNING FOR EDUCATORS TO ENSURE
LABORATORIES AND CLASSROOMS REMAIN CURRENT? WILL
WE RECOGNIZE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE
NANOTECHNOLOGY WORKFORCE AS AN INVESTMENT?
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to fill the continually changing needs of the
states employers and to stay competitive in the
global market.
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Parting Thought.

• IN THE RACE FOR
• PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE,
• THERE IS NO FINISH LINE