Oklahoma Tech Prep

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Oklahoma Tech Prep
Oklahoma Tech Prep
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History of Tech Prep

• The early 1980s saw business and industry shift
  from the industrial age to the age of technology
• Carl D. Perkins Vocational Applied Technology
  Education Act first adopted in 1990.

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How Does It Work?

• Money is given to state
• Money is distributed to local consortium

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Tech Prep in Oklahoma
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Tech Prep in Oklahoma

• 24 consortia!
• 16 Nationally recognized Career Cluster areas!
• Serving 425 Oklahoma high schools and 4,361
  students!
• Over 600 professional development opportunities
  for almost 4,700 administrators, teachers, and
  counselors!

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Tech Prep Defined

• Begins at the 9th grade and continues through two
  or more years of postsecondary education
  leading to an associate degree, diploma, or
  apprenticeship (22 2 system).
• Provides students with career development
  opportunities and an avenue to earn postsecondary
  credit for specified high school courses.

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A Tech Prep Student Is..

• Postsecondary Education Tech Prep Student
• A student who has completed the secondary
  education component of a tech prep program and
• Has enrolled in the postsecondary education
  component of a tech prep program at an
  institution of higher education described in
  clause (i) or (ii) of section 203(a)(1)(B)
• Secondary Education Tech Prep Student
• A student who has enrolled in 2 courses in the
  secondary education component of a tech prep
  program

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Goals of Tech Prep

• Place students in high skill high wage jobs,
• Create opportunity,
• Provide seamless transition from high school to
  post secondary education.

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Program Components

• Articulation Agreements
• Cooperative Alliance Program
• Career Planning
• Strong Partners
• Sending Schools, Business, Industry, High Ed

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Tech Prep Success

• Texas Study
• Secondary Tech Prep Participants and
  Non-Participants
• Five-year analysis comparing 10th through 12th
  grade
• Tech Prep students had..
• Slightly higher annual attendance rates
• Lower dropout rates
• Slightly higher graduation rates

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Student Outcomes

• Tech Prep is the real world approach to prepare
  all students for responsible citizenship, further
  learning, and productive employment.

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Cooperative Alliances

• 1988-Cooperative Agreements
• Students could earn college credit but
• Institutional Centered
• Agreements between one higher education
  institution one technology center
• Transferring credit difficult

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Cooperative Alliances

• 2004 OSRHE ODCTE launched Cooperative
  Alliance Project
• student-centered collaboration between higher
  education institutions technology centers
• 3 pilots launched and approved April 2005
• 2005-2006 Alliances in most parts of OK
• 2007 Goal of 100 participation!

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Cooperative Alliance Goals

• Increase the number of high school students
  pursuing college,
• Increase the number of adults continuing or
  beginning college,
• Expand access to postsecondary educational
  opportunities,
• Use federal, state, and local resources more
  efficiently.

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How Do Cooperative Alliances Work?

• How does it work
• Establish Primary Partner
• Secondary partnerships
• College Credit
• Statewide transfer matrix being developed for
  technical studies

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Alliances What Does It Cost?

• 8 PER CREDIT HOUR
• Average savings of160 per hour

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Questions

• Jeremy L. Zweiacker
• Tech Prep Alliance State Coordinator
• OK Dept. of Career Technology Education
• 405.743.6881/jzwei_at_okcareertech.org
• www.okcareertech.org/techprep