Missouri Training

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Missouri Training Employment Council

• Education and Training Committee
• August 11, 2003
• Wentzville, Missouri

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Committee Charges

• Identification of Essential and Technical Skills
  needed by business and industry.
• Education and Training portion of the State of
  the Workforce Report
• Develop an Education Scorecard

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Education and Training Committee

• Work Groups
• Business and Industry
• K-16
• Life Long Learning

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Business and Industry

• Improve communication between education and
  training and business and industry
• Change the reward system for educators.
• Just-in-time training.
• Evidence of Workplace Readiness/skills and
  technical skills
• NOCTI (National Occupational Competency Testing
  Institute)
• DESE Competency Skills, Work Keys, etc.

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Business and Industry cont.

• Connect Life Long Learning to Life Long Earnings.
• Grow small and medium size businesses.
• Train and Retrain manufacturing employees and
  management in Advanced Manufacturing Techniques.

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K-16

• More professional development of teachers and
  administrators on career information.
• Varied responsibilities for counselors, career
  counseling is not a priority.
• What is the mindset of parents? Expectations?
  Every student is not college found.
• Articulation agreements are needed.
• Define literacy for high school grads.

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Life Long Learning

• Connecting adults to lifelong opportunities.
• Affordability
• Accessibility
• Transportability of credentials
• Articulation of programs areas
• Validation of statewide skill standards.
• Program structure length, flexibility.
• Program need-quality, relevance, etc.

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State of the Workforce Issues

• Literacy
• Graduation Rate
• A Enrollment
• Students graduating with certificates (work
  readiness)
• MAP Scores

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Literacy

• Imbed literacy instruction in all adult training
  programs
• Promote workplace competencies of job seeking
  candidates through workforce readiness
  credentials (WorkKeys) and promote a common
  credentialling system for Missouri.
• Utilize the Missouri Career Center to identify
  people in need of literacy training and make
  referrals to existing literacy programs.

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Literacy cont.

• Require higher education institutions to develop
  and promote literacy programs in the communities
  that they serve
• Provide literacy training opportunities for all
  people receiving pubic assistance

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Graduation Rate

• Utilize the High Schools That Work standards
  statewide and financially reward outstanding
  school district performance
• Tie the High Schools That Work standards to the
  A Schools initiative
• Teachers/Professors should be required to do
  periodic internships with business/industry to
  gain a better understanding of how to
  contextualize course content

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Graduation Rate (cont.)

• Career options should be embedded into the
  instruction of course content at the high school
  and college levels
• Core competencies needed to succeed in the
  workplace should be imbedded in the content of
  courses at the high school and college levels
• High schools and college/universities should
  partner with business/industry to implement job
  mentoring/shadowing programs for students.

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Graduation Rate (cont.)

• Eliminate social promotion of students from one
  grade to the next
• Institute a standard community college entrance
  exam (WorkKeys??) for evaluating a students
  general education (core competencies)

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Enhance the Quality of Teaching

• Require teachers of core subjects (communication
  arts, mathematics, science, social studies, fine
  arts and health/physical education) in middle and
  high school to have a major in the subject area.
• Implement an apprenticeship program for new
  teachers, combining mentoring by a master teacher
  in the content an presentation of teaching
  materials with teaching experience.
• Class content should be taught within a real
  world context, a case study approach that embeds
  examples found in a variety of workplaces

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Enhancing the Quality of Teaching (cont.)

• Increase funding for school districts as student
  performance on MAP improves from one year to the
  next
• Customize each teachers development plan and
  learning community to focus on the building
  subject matter competency

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A Program

• The committee supports the A Program
• Additional work is needed to produce specific
  recommendations.

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MAP and Work Readiness

• Students graduating with certificates

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Focus on Testing and Accountability

• Fully fund the four major areas of the MAP
  statewide
• Adopt a statewide workplace readiness assessment
  for all high school/GED graduates
• Provide incentives for students scoring at
  proficient or above
• Provide incentives for proficient-scoring
  schools, staff, etc.
• Provide teacher/counselors with ongoing
  development

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Establish a Publicity Campaign

• Deliver message to students, parents, general
  public, etc. concerning MAPs goals
• Deliver message to students, parents, employers,
  etc. concerning WorkKeys (or similar) goals
• Measure campaign effectiveness and make
  adjustments as necessary

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Devise Regional Development Plans

• Coordinate expected outcomes of local WIBs and
  school boards with state WIBs, DESE, HE
• Develop regional Education and Technical body to
  serve as a liaison between bodies and states
  bodies (similar to RTECs)
• Measure performance outcomes from above and tweak
  system as needed
• Provide incentives to regional bodies that meet
  or exceed mutually established goals

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Essential and Technical Skill Competencies

• Competency Profiles (DESE)
• On-the-job training/Work experience, Technical
  Skills required for the specific position and
  employability competencies.
• Certificate of Completion
• Vocational Education Competency Profile Groups.
• Agricultural Education, Business Education,
  Family and Consumer Sciences Education, Health
  Sciences Education, Industrial Education, and
  Marketing Education.

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Essential and Technical Skill Competencies cont.

• NOCTI (National Occupational Competency Testing
  Institute)
• NOCTI is a leading provider of occupational
  competency assessments and services. Products
  and services include job and task analysis, test
  development, written and performance assessments,
  etc.

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Essential and Technical Skill Competencies cont.

• NOCTI Workplace Readiness Competency and Skills
  areas
• Workforce Awareness
• Employment Retention
• Workplace Safety and Wellness
• Employment Acquisition
• Human Relations
• Communications
• Rights and Responsibilities
• Civic, Social and Business Awareness
• Life Skills
• Teaming/Leadership Skills

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Report of the Missouri Business Education
Roundtable

• Presented to Governor Holden
• July 30, 2003

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Teachers as Professionals

• Develop a more proactive teacher recruitment
  strategy and strengthen teacher retention
  policies
• Improve teacher preparedness
• Reinforce the perception of teaching as a
  profession

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Improving the School Environment

• Provide preschool children with age appropriate
  development activities to enable them to enter
  kindergarten prepared to learn
• Engage parents and communities in educational
  outcomes of children
• Develop business and community education
  partnerships
• Continuous improvement in school performance

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Funding Issues in Education

• Missouri must make every effort to ensure an
  adequate and equitable funding system for
  children and young adults that will provide an
  efficient and effective method for youth to
  acquire at each level the knowledge and skills to
  achieve at the next level. Missouris
  educational system must provide for maximum
  accountability through measures of effectiveness,
  allowing for continuous feedback to employees,
  students, schools, parents and policy-makers.
• Improve funding for Missouri education at all
  levels

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QUESTIONS?