ACHIEVE TEXAS Effective Student Scheduling

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ACHIEVE TEXASEffective Student Scheduling

• Presented by
• Hector M. Rendón, Director
• Career Technical Education
• November 28, 2007
• Tech Prep of the Rio Grande Valley

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Requirements for Career PlansSenate Bill 518

• The guidance and counseling program shall
  include
• a guidance curriculum to help students develop
  their full educational potential
• An individual planning system to guide a student
  as the student plans, monitors and manages the
  students own educational, career (including
  interests and career objectives), personal and
  social development

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Coherent Sequence of Courses Requirement PL
105-332 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical
Education Act of 1998

• Evidence that students are pursuing a career
  objective through a coherent sequence of courses,
  ex. Sample career concentrations and selected
  student career plans
• PEIMS indicator codes of 2 and 3

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Why a Coherent Sequence?

• Provides students with a blueprint for their
  educational and career goals
• Makes high school course selection relevant

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Definition of a Coherent Sequence of Courses

• An educational plan made up of developmentally-app
  ropriate courses suited for a given career
  objective or goal
• Two or more CTE Courses for three or more credits

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Beginning with the end in mind...

• What are the students interest, aptitudes, and
  abilities?
• What are the students after-high school goals?
• What are the students options for reaching these
  goals?

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Achieve Texas Implementation Guide

• is an ambitious vision of an improved education
  system that is based on rigorous real-world
  standards of performance established in
  partnership with the business community. It is
  a way to refocus school on how students really
  learnactively, hands-on, and through authentic
  problems and projects.

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Career Clusters Definition

• Career Clusters represents a grouping of
  occupations and broad industries based on
  commonalities.

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Career Clusters Titles

• Agriculture, Food Natural Resources
• Architecture Construction
• Arts, Audio/Video Technology Communications
• Business, Management Administration
• Education Training
• Finance
• Government Public Administration
• Health Science

• Hospitality Tourism
• Human Services
• Information Technology
• Law, Public Safety Security
• Manufacturing
• Marketing, Sales Service
• Science, Technology, Engineering Mathematics
• Transportation, Distribution Logistics

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Career Clusters Purposes

• The 16 Career Clusters are an organizing tool for
  schools to offer a broader, more durable
  preparation for the world of work.
• Re-training the Workforce
• Cross-training the Workforce
• Preparing the Emerging Workforce

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Career Clusters Student and Community Benefits

• Help develop workplace, academic and technical
  skills
• Build links to the community
• Add relevance to the curriculum
• Provide real-world learning

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Career Clusters Workforce Development and
Education System Benefits

• Provide a common theme for communication from
  state to state
• Enhance academic achievement of all students -
  leaving no child behind
• Integrate into current Career Technical programs
• Prepare students for entry into
  college/university
• Provide a well-prepared, qualified workforce for
  employers

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Career Clusters Goals

• High Academic Attainment (meet state
  requirements)
• Successful transition to post-secondary education
  and training
• Preparation for Success in Careers (academic
  skills, technical skills, employability skills)
• Promote/Support Economic Development to Increase
  Productivity
• Enhance Career Development Outcomes

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Career Clusters Model

• Organizes the occupations, within each cluster,
  into pathways that group the cluster occupations
  based on commonalities.

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Career Clusters Framework

• Cluster Level
• Represents the skills and knowledge, both
  academic and technical, that all students within
  the cluster should achieve regardless of their
  pathway.
• Pathway Level
• Represents the skills and knowledge, both
  academic and technical, necessary to pursue a
  full range of career opportunities within a
  pathway - ranging from entry level to management,
  including technical and professional career
  specialties.
• Career Specialties
• Represents the full range of career opportunities
  within each pathway.

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San Benito High School

• Twelve Career Pathways within the 16 Career
  Clusters
• Opportunities for job shadowing, internships,
  mentoring, touring of facilities
• Involvement of local Businesses in our Advisory
  Committees
• Dual Enrollment for CTE courses
• Advanced Technical Credit CTE courses

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Process for Scheduling

• Occupations are identified by Career Pathways,
  student circles desired occupation
• A total of 12 4-Year Graduation Plans available
  on school district website
• www.sbcisd.net
• Student is given a form to have parent/student
  signatures
• Registration for the upcoming year is completed
  by utilizing the student ID and career pathway
  form on file

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Process for Scheduling

• Administrative Procedures approved by all parties
• Eighth grade activities involve ninth grade
  counselors visiting Middle school campuses
• Interest assessment results reflect identified
  occupation completed during Career Investigation
  class

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Benefits of Graduation Plans

• Provide focus for all students in self selected
  career field
• Provide a coherent sequence of courses
• Provide for ease of scheduling (Academic and
  elective courses)
• Administrative overview of student enrollment by
  program area
• Removal of pre-registration activities for grades
  10-12.

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Career Choices

• Career Pathway Choices made by the student must
  have parental approval
• Students must be provided the option of a
  straight academic career preparation program.

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STEPS FOR LIFELONG SUCCESS FOR ALL STUDENTS

• IMPLEMENT ACHIEVE TEXAS
• SPAN ALL GRADES
• IMPLEMENT TAPS Texas Achievement Plan
• ENHANCE GUIDANCE
• BUILD SEAMLESS CONNECTIONS
• ESTABLISH EXTENDED LEARNING
• OFFER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• www.achievetexas.org