CTE Credentialing Framework

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CTE Credentialing Framework

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Program/Cluster Frameworks

• Agriscience
• Business/Marketing
• FACS Family Life
• FACS Career Connections
• Health Science
• Technical

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Core Course

• Core Course 70 hour course consisting of
  duplicated content from across the CTE curriculum
• Content standards established in Course of Study.
• Objectives established by taskforce consisting of
  CTE teachers and administrators.
• Deliver through integration, stand alone, or
  online.

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Core Course Assessment

• Why?
• Documents what students know regarding core
  content.
• Lead-in to credentialing for Alabama CTE students
  with regard to work readiness.

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Big Picture

• Alabama Certified Worker Credential is a state
  business/industry recognized certification of
  work readiness. The Alabama Certified Worker
  Credential is offered through FIT and delivered
  at 37 DPE sites across state. Currently FIT is
  an adults only program.
• Core is approximately 70 of required content of
  FIT.
• Working with AIDT on web-based applications for
  FIT and for the core simultaneously.
• Ramp up core to equal FIT curriculum leading to
  Alabama Certified Worker Credentials for students
  exiting high school.

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• Dr. Mike Robinson
• Technological Fluency Institute

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Next Steps

• Work with teachers to ensure that the content is
  taught in CTE courses/programs.
• Assess concentrators for core content
  proficiency.
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• State CTE will pay for students to be assessed in
  2005-06.
• TFI will establish student access numbers to
  which you will have access. Individual CTE
  Administrators will arrange with TFI
  representatives the details for testing.
• CTE Administrators will receive all student
  scores and information regarding specific test
  items.
• State CTE office will receive proficiency reports
  by LEA/school/program.
• CTE Administrators will receive Certificates of
  Proficiency for students who are successful on
  the assessment (those who make the cut score).
• State CTE office will pay for one retake if
  student scores 75 of cut score on original
  assessment. Retake will be a random selection of
  questions (and objectives)
• All information and certificates will be received
  electronically.
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• Determine where cooperative education fits in to
  assessment process.
• Continue assessing students as product matures
  toward pure FIT.

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• QUESTIONS?

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• Graduation

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• QUESTIONS?