Career and Technical Education Standards

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Career and Technical Education Standards Gap
Analysis

• November 7, 2007
• MDE Office of Career and Technical Preparation

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Presentation By

• Jan Vogel, Educator on Loan, Calhoun Intermediate
  School District
• Glenna Zollinger-Russell, Supervisor, OCTP

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Thank You

• OCTP staff
• Guidance of Dr. Kitty Manley
• MCCTE-FSU staff
• Participants in the E-focus and Task Force groups
  
• Administration who supported their participation
  
• Career Curriculum Development Association of
  Michigan (CCDA)

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Purpose of this Session

• To review with administration a process to
  complete a gap analysis to assist with aligning
  your current delivery for the Michigan CIP
  programs with the new state standards.

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Goals for Today

• Identify how to develop gap analysis document by
  using the web documents
• Identify the steps to complete gap analysis with
  teachers
• Review of timeline for implementation of Standards

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Process for Asking Questions

• Ask questions on the phone line [phone]
• Type questions in the chat area
• Open the Chat panel
• Type a message in the chat box
• In the Send To drop-down list, select the
  recipients of the message
• Click send

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Who can set up Gap Analysis

• Teachers can down load the gap analysis and save
  in a common area of the network
• OR
• Secretary can down load the gap analysis and save
  on your network for each CTE program

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Steps to developing Document

• At the home page of MCCTE www.MCCTE-FSU.org,
  under the Curriculum Standards Project box on
  the right side, click on View Curriculum
  Standards
• Select a Michigan Pathway
• Select a Career Cluster
• Scroll down to find the appropriate Michigan CIP
  code

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www.MCCTE-FSU.org
Curriculum Standards Project
Curriculum Standards Project
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Select Career Pathway
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www.MCCTE-FSU.org
Adobe or Excel
Resource Guide
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Carl Perkins IV Curriculum Model

• For each CIP there are four main content
  areas that must be included in the curriculum
• Michigan Technical Standards
• National Career Pathway Clusters
• National Cluster Foundation Skills
• Michigan Career and Employability Skills and
  Michigan Technology Skills

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Steps to developing Document

• 5. On the right side under the Standards list,
  click on MI Career and Employability Skills HS
  Technical Skills Excel format (green icon)
• 6. Click Open

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Steps to developing Document

• 7. First customize the header and fill in
  program information sections -
• Go to File, Page Set up, Header/Footer,
  Customize header, type in the name of-
• The National Career Cluster,
• The National Cluster Pathway
• Michigan CIP Code and Program Name
• click OK, and click OK again
• Type in the information in sections E1
  E7

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Steps to developing Document

• 8. Do a Save As in the file of your choice on
  your own system. It is recommended that you
  label the file Gap Analysis
• 9. Click the Back button at the top left of
  your screen, and you will return to the
  www.MCCTE-FSU.org page for the CIP that you are
  working with

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Steps to developing Document

• 10. Go to the Standards list again on the
  right side of the screen
• 11. Click on MI Technical Skills Excel
  format (green icon)
• 12. Select Open
• 13. Starting with the number 1, click on the
  shaded numbers in the first column on the left,
  hold and scroll down to the end of the document
  (you want the whole row highlighted when you
  scroll down)
• 14. Right click on the shaded area, last
  number and select Copy
• 15. Go to your Gap Analysis saved document
  on your computer
• 16. Scroll down to line 197A
• 17. Click on the number 197 right click,
  select Insert Copied Cells

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Steps to developing Document

• Use the same steps to download the Cluster
  Pathway Skills and Cluster Foundation Skills
• Save the document

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Questions
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Steps to do the Gap Analysis

• Suggestions for how to introduce the Gap Analysis
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• Meet with teachers in an identified group to
  review process and allow them time to complete
  the Gap Analysis
• National Cluster grouping
• E-focus and task force participants
• Present an overview to all of the staff and then
  have them do it on their own by an identified
  time
• Share the process with the local administrators

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Steps to do the Gap Analysis

• Resources to assist with the process
• Most current National Career Cluster Crosswalk
  Grid completed for the program
• Most current task listing for the program
• Calendar of delivery
• Computer with access to the internet to download
  the Excel Gap Analysis document and save it on a
  disk or to your network

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Steps to do the Gap Analysis

• The following needs to be done or each
• task
• Rate the task according to the rating chart at
  the top of the page, under the Secondary Delivery
  area,
• 4 Exceeds criteria and/or able to teach task
• 3 Accomplishes task to criteria
• 2 Accomplishes task with help
• 1 Exposed to the task
• N Not exposed to task

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Steps to do the Gap Analysis
4Exceeds criteria and or able to teach
task 3Accomplishes task to criteria 2Accomplishe
s task with help 1Exposed to the task NNot
exposed to task
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Steps to do the Gap Analysis
Postsecondary
Secondary
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Steps to do the Gap Analysis
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For Each N or 1

• Highlight it
• Click on the shaded column on the left that
  corresponds to the task you want to highlight
• Select fill color on the tool bar
• Open up the tool and click on yellow

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Plan of Improvement

• Address in a plan of improvement that includes
• Areas to address
• Action to be taken
• Resources needed
• Timeline
• Staff/administration to complete

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Share gap and plan of improvement

• Curriculum director/principal for review and
  edits
• Program advisory committee for review and support
• Local school board

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Documentation Requirement

• Keep Gap Analysis and Plan of Improvement in TRAC
  notebook as part of your CIP Self Review, Section
  C-10

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When will it be completed?

• June 2008 the Gap Analysis will be highly
  recommended as a part of your CIP Self Review and
  will be kept in your TRAC files.
• The analysis will be updated annually
• Spring 2008 the Gap Analysis will be required for
  districts requesting changes as a result of their
  program standard review

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Questions
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Timeline

• October 23, 2007
• Updated Standards Released
• Standards and Gap Analysis Webcast
  www.mistreamnet.org

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Timeline

• November 2007
• Gap Analysis Webinar for administrative technical
  assistance
• Resource Guides released on the Web
• November 2007 June 2008
• Complete Gap Analysis for all state approved
  programs
• Refer to web for updated documents in Resource
  Guide

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Timeline

• January March 2008
• Separating the program standards into 12 segments
  
• Conducted by MCCTE-FSU project
• Gap Analysis will need to be done prior to this
  step

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Timeline

• January 2008
• Pilot on new method to gather data for
  concentrator
• To Be Determined
• Academic alignment to standards
• August 2008
• Programs set to meet the new state standards
  (December)

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For Further Clarification

• Office of Career and Technical Education
• 517-373-3373
• Glenna Zollinger-Russell
• Office--517/241-2072 or
• zollinger-russellg_at_michigan.gov

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