Workforce Innovations 2004

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Workforce Innovations2004

• Promoting Competency Models and Credentials to
  Achieve a Demand-Driven, Competitive Workforce
• San Antonio, July 20, 2004

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Speakers

• Gay Gilbert, USDOL/ETA
• Lee Rector, Texas Workforce Investment
  Council
• Nancy Warren, Highline Community College
• Dana Daugherty, USDOL/ETA
• Stephen Mandes, National Institute for
  Metalworking Skills
• Pam Frugoli, USDOL/ETA

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The Power of e3 Fueling Americas Economic Engine
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High Growth Job Training Initiative (HGJTI)

• Industry Forums
• Consultation on Workforce Challenges
• DOL Investments in Solutions

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Presidents High Growth Job Training Initiative

• ETA News Release 06/02/2004Contact Name Ed
  FrankPhone Number [phone]
• U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao Announces
  Launch of 17.2 Million National Biotechnology
  Training Initiative
• First Grant for 2.4 Million Awarded to
  Pittsburgh Organization
• PITTSBURGHU.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao
  today announced the launch of a 17.2 million
  national Biotechnology Worker Training Initiative
  as part of the Presidents High Growth Job
  Training Initiative. The grants will fund
  solutions to address the skills needs and
  workforce challenges facing the industry. Todays
  announcement was made at an event highlighting a
  2.4 million award to Pennsylvania-based
  Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse.
• This 17.2 million in training funds will
  recruit and train workers for jobs in the
  biotechnology field, which is expected to be one
  of the fastest growing sectors by 2012, said
  Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao. The grant
  awarded today to Pittsburgh Life Sciences
  Greenhouse is the first in a series of grants
  designed to increase awareness about promising
  biotechnology-related careers, address the need
  for skilled workers in the industry and provide
  good jobs for workers.

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Presidents High Growth Job Training Initiative

• ETA News Release 03/25/2004Contact Name
  Lorette PostPhone Number [phone]
• U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao Announces
  5.4 Million in New Health Care Training Grants
• Florida and Texas Awards to Address Nurse
  Shortages, Part of National Effort
• FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.U.S. Secretary of Labor
  Elaine L. Chao today awarded two new grants
  totaling 5.4 million to fund nurse-training
  programs in Florida and Texas. The grants are the
  latest in the Bush Administrations High Growth
  Job Training Initiative to address critical
  worker shortages in various growth sectors of the
  economy, including the health care industry.
  Secretary Chao kicked off the new national Health
  Care Initiative in Baltimore on March 12.
• Today we are announcing two more grants in a
  24.4 million initiative to help workers train
  for jobs in the high growth health care sector of
  our economy, said Secretary of Labor Elaine L.
  Chao. The first 4 million grant will fund
  nurse- training programs in Florida and Texas.
  Florida International University will receive the
  second grant worth 1.4 million as part of the
  Presidents High Growth Job Training Initiative.
  The health care field is desperately seeking
  qualified workers, and these grants will help
  provide the skills training needed to pair
  workers with new good-paying health care jobs.

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Texas Skill Standards Board Workforce Innovations
Conference San Antonio, Texas July 20, 2004
Texas Skill Standards and System Framework
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The Workforce Challenge
Responsive Workforce Programs
Employer Skill Requirements
Business Industry Success
Texas Skill Standards Board
Texas Skill Standards Board
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The Skill Standards System
Business Industry
Credential
Program Content Outcomes
Skilled Graduates
Texas Skill Standards Board
Texas Skill Standards Board
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Funding for Employment Outcomes
SKILL STANDARDS
Program Funds
CERTIFICATIONS
Program Outputs Individuals with Certification
of Skill Sets
Program Service Delivery
Attainment Credential Rates measure program
success in achieving outcomes for
individuals and in increasing the available pool
of skilled potential workers
Texas Skill Standards Board
Texas Skill Standards Board
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The Challenge
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Texas Skill Standards Board

• Established in 1995.
• Works toward a statewide voluntary system of
  industry-defined and industry-recognized skill
  standards for all major skilled occupations that
  
• (1) provide strong employment and earnings
  opportunities and
• (2) require less than a baccalaureate degree.

Texas Skill Standards Board
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Four TSSB Mandates

• Validate and recognize national standards.
• Convene industry groups to develop new standards.
• Mutually recognize standards and credentials
  across states and nations.
• Promote use of standards and credentials.

Texas Skill Standards Board
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TSSB Goals for the System

• Engage Industry
• curriculum content based on work competencies
• assessment benchmarks
• demand-side hiring
• Establish essential occupational equivalencies
• workforce education program outcomes
• certification of competencies
• program credentials
• Add value and improve existing state mechanisms
  
• incorporate use of skill standards
• Link to future growth and demand occupations

Texas Skill Standards Board
Texas Skill Standards Board
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Components

• Skill Standards Repository
• Recognized 2 types
• Certification Repository
• List with links to certifying entities
• Program Recognition
• CTC, CSC
• WIA Eligible Training Provider List
• Credential
• Next step

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POLICY Guidelines for Development, Recognition
and Usage of Skill Standards

• OUTPUTS
• Recognized skill standards submitted by industry
  groups
• Texas
• National
• Industry
• International
• Repository
• Public domain
• No user fee
• Current content
• Certification List/Links

• MECHANISM
• TSSB procedures and criteria for skill standards
  development and recognition develop, adopt,
  adapt, update, amend.

Texas Skill Standards Board
Texas Skill Standards Board
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POLICY Guidelines for the Certification and
Credentialing of Skill Attainment

• OUTPUTS/OUTCOMES
• Recognized workforce programs at applicant
  college
• Posting on TSSB website
• Acknowledgement at TSSB outreach and awareness
  activities
• Students with requisite skill sets
• Potential Linkages
• Perkins completer rates
• Dual program credential

• MECHANISMS
• TSSB Program Recognition for workforce education
  Certificates and Associate Degrees
• New / Revised Program Application with Statement
  of Assurance
• Workforce Education Course Manual (WECM) as the
  statewide inventory of workforce courses

Texas Skill Standards Board
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POLICY Texas Administrative Code WIA
Determination of Subsequent Eligibility

• OUTPUTS
• Approved provider list
• Industry-based content
• Program certification
• Current Performance Measures
• Certification, Degree Licensure
• Skill attainment
• Program completion
• Entered Employment
• Employment retention

• MECHANISM
• WIA Training Provider Certification System
• Subsequent Eligibility application
• Training provider reporting requirements

Texas Skill Standards Board
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Qualifications GapThe driver in Washington
state

• Skill demands are escalating
• foundation skills
• technical skills
• Need for workforce training and retraining
• Need for continuous learning

• New jobs and industries are emerging
• Workers change jobs more often
• Work is more information and knowledge based
• Labor markets are more international

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Why Skill Standards?

• Communicate workplace expectations
• Enhance employability and portability of skills
• Match the curriculum to the requirements of the
  workplace
• Close the qualifications gap

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Who Benefits?

• Employers
• Reduce costs by improving recruitment, hiring
  retention and retraining of employees.
• Better assess employee skill levels to design
  appropriate training programs.
• Boost productivity and competitiveness by
  increasing worker flexibility.

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Who Benefits?

• Educators
• Provide a framework for curriculum development.
• Provide more consistent, targeted instruction.
• Clarify technical and academic skills needed for
  employment.
• Provide more complete career information to
  students and families.

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Who Benefits?

• Workers
• Know potential employers expectations.
• Better evaluate their skills against those
  required for career movement and advancement.
• Have greater mobility and portability of their
  credentials.
• Help identify their own training needs.

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Curriculum Development

• Curriculum based on skill standards
• Competency based
• Focused on performance outcomes
• Uses performance measurements
• Infuses foundation (SCANS) skills
• Incorporates work-based experiences

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Skills Standards Used/Developed atHighline
Community College

• Dispensing Optician
• Early Childhood Education
• Library Technician
• Para educators

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Education Department Big Success

• Two projects Early Childhood and Para-educators
• Participated in writing, editing, re-writing,
  reviewing
• Integrated SS into curricula and assessment
  processes
• Created SS-based assignments, assessments and
  self-evaluation tools
• SS form framework for final capstone course

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Contact Information
Nancy Warren Highline Community
College nwarren_at_highline.edu http//www.wa-skills.
com www.learningconnections.org 206-878-3710,
ext. 3343

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THE NATIONAL APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM

• Over 120,000 New Apprentices Annually
• Over 482,000 Apprentices Nationally

• Over 31,000 Registered Apprenticeship Programs
• Over 225,000 Participating Employers

Service locations in all 50 states
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CAREER LATTICE
Incremental Credentials
Skill Sets Identified Competencies
Industry Driven Competency Based
Process Distance Learning
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HEALTH CARE CNA LONG-TERM CARE APPRENTICESHIP
MODEL
Level 4 Optional Upgrade Training 600-925
hours
Certificate of Mentor Training

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PARTNERSHIPS AND LEVERAGING RESOURCES

• CAEL Council for Adult and Experiential
  Learning increase the number of Certified Nurses
  Aids, and Licensed Practical Nurses
• GeoSpatial Developing advanced technology
  training programs in geographic and remote
  sensing systems
• CompTia To develop an information technology
  apprenticeship program to address the IT
  workforce shortage and certification process
• NIMS National Institute for Metalworking
  Skills establishing national standards for the
  machine tool industries

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National Institute forMetalworking Skills
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NIMS Stakeholders

• American Machine Tool Distributors Association
• Association for Manufacturing Technology
• National Tooling and Machining Association
• Precision Machined Products Association
• Precision Metalforming Association
• Tooling and Manufacturing Association

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NIMS primary activities include

• developing, writing, validating, and maintaining
  skill standards for each industry
• certifying the skills of individuals against the
  skill standards
• accrediting training programs that train to the
  skill standards and meet NIMS quality
  requirements
• assisting states, schools, and companies to form
  partnerships to implement the skill standards,
  achieve program accreditation, and certify the
  skills of trainees and workers.

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Example A Machinist Core Competency
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Part Print (Level I)
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Machine Competency Sample Test Questions
Turning Between Centers

• Identify the proper format for determining the
  RPM for turning operation
• a) (CS . 3.82) / D
• b) D / (CS/3.82)
• c) (D . 3.82) / CS
• d) (D . CS) / 3.82
• A drilling and boring operation has to be
  performed on one end of a shaft
• measuring 3 in diameter and 25 long. Which of
  the following methods
• provides the most stable set up?
• a) A faceplate, lathe dog and live center (in
  the tailstock)
• b) A three jaw universal chuck, follower rest
  and live center (in the tailstock)
• c) A three jaw universal chuck and a steady rest
• d) Collet, follower rest, lathe dog and
  faceplate, dead center

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• National Institute for Metalworking Skills
• Stephen Mandes
• 3251 Old Lee Hwy 205
• Fairfax, VA 22030
• 703.352.4971
• www.nims-skills.org

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ONET Worker Requirements

• Basic Skills
• Cross-Functional Skills
• Social Skills
• Complex Problem-Solving Skills
• 11 categories of Technical Skills
• 3 categories of Systems Skills
• 4 categories of Resource Management Skills
• 10 Knowledge areas
• Education - prior educational experience
  required to perform a job

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ONET Competency Factors

• Occupational Requirements
• Generalized Work Activities - general types of
  job behaviors occurring on multiple jobs
• Work Context - physical and social factors that
  influence the nature of work
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Physical Work Conditions
• Structural Job Characteristics
• Occupation-Specific Requirements
• Occupational Tasks

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ONET Competency Factors

• Worker Characteristics
• Abilities - enduring attributes of the individual
  that influence performance 1) Cognitive 2)
  Psychomotor 3) Physical and 4) Sensory
• Work Styles - personal characteristics that can
  affect how well someone does a job
• Interest and Work Values - preferences for work
  environments and outcomes
• Holland Occupational Classification
• Occupational Values

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