do you know if your students are career ready?
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A presentation made at the Career & Technical Association of Texas Conference, July 2009TRANSCRIPT
Do You Know If Your Students Are Career Ready?
Changes in Workforce Skills Needs Across 50 Years
Unskilled60%
Skilled20%
Professional20%
Professional20%
Unskilled12%
Skilled68%
1955 2005
Many Middle-Skilled Jobs Pay as well as Jobs Requiring a Bachelor’s Degree
Jobs Requiring Training, a Certification, or an Associate’s Degree
Jobs Requiring a Bachelor’s Degree
2006 Median Annual Wage
Air Traffic ControllerGeneral Operations Managers
Airline Pilots & CopilotsNuclear & Chemical EngineersComputer Software Engineers
$70,000+
Nuclear Power Reactor OperatorsPolice & Detective SupervisorsRadiation TherapistsDental Hygienists
Environmental EngineersCivil EngineersFinancial AnalystsArchitects
$60,000
Detectives & Criminal InvestigatorsRegistered NursesFlight Attendants
Landscape ArchitectsAccountants & AuditorsFood Scientists & Technologists
$50,000
Service Sales RepresentativesFire Fighters, Inspectors, & InvestigatorsElectricians & PlumbersConstruction & Building Inspectors
SurveyorsSecondary School TeachersEditorsForensic Science Technicians
$40,000
Training for College or Workplace?
The needs of college and workplace-bound students are merging:
“Whether planning to enter college or workforce training programs after graduation, high school students need to be educated to a comparable level of readiness in reading and mathematics.”
- ACT, Inc.Ready for College and
Readyfor Work: Same or Different?
How to Measure Readiness for a Skilled Workforce or College?
• We need:– A common language – what are the skills
required? “We need to ask employers what are the math skills
required for the job.”– Foundational skills – complement job-specific
skills “69% of applicants are rejected at hire because they lack
basic skills, 32% because they lack reading and math skills”
– Applied skills – apply the knowledge “Students exiting our educational system have
knowledge. But their demonstrated inability to apply that knowledge implies that they don’t understand what they know.”
Jo Kister, Ph.D.Workforce Development Consultant
The National Career Readiness Certificate Addresses These Needs:
• Certifies the common workplace skills and trainability of students and job seekers
• Is a nationally-recognized, portable credential• Is recognized by both education and business• Provides a common measurement between
individuals and specific jobs• Has been adopted by over 20 states and
growing
http://www.act.org/certificate
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Job Profiling:Determines the level of skill necessary to
learn a job
2
Skill Assessments:Measures an individual’sskill level
3
Education / Training:Efficiently closes
skill gaps
Based upon the WorkKeys® Job Skills System
NCRC Provides Information on Skills
Benefits of the NCRC?
• Portable credential for basic workplace skills
• Business: Easy way to measure skills
• Individuals: Easy way to demonstrate skills
• Economic Development: Document the quality of workforce
• Education, Workforce Development, Training Organizations, and Business: Speak a common language
Frenship High School Implementation
• Visited with 284 CTE seniors about the NCRC
• 157 CTE seniors took all three tests• 113 CTE seniors received the NCRC
– 18 Gold– 64 Silver– 31 Bronze
• These seniors received this certification at our Annual CTE Banquet
Market Leaders for WorkKeys Curricula
• North Carolina – 41 of 52 Community Colleges • Arkansas – State License – all Community Colleges & Workforce• Indiana – State License (over 750 Sites) WIA, Colleges, Corrections• Oklahoma – State License - CTE Centers and One Stops• Ohio – State License Dept. of Admin Services, ABE
recommendation• Louisiana – 47 of 49 Technical and Community Colleges• Virginia – 21 of 23 Community Colleges • West Virginia – State License - Adult Education and One Stops• Tennessee – State License - Technology Centers• Illinois – Chicago Public Schools over 350 High Schools• Kentucky – State License - KCTCS• North Dakota – Statewide License - One Stops• Georgia – Over 140 (1/3) High Schools, ½ Colleges, ½ WIA• Oregon– State License - Teacher/ParaPro• Hawaii – State License - Community Colleges • New Mexico – Statewide License - Corrections• Colorado – State License - One Stops, Statewide- Corrections • Connecticut - State License – One Stops• Mississippi – Statewide License – Community Colleges
WorkKeys & KeyTrain Business Users
Advanced Glassfibers, Inc.Arch ChemicalsAVXBoard of LightBowaterBridgestone FirestoneBWX TechnologiesCampbell SoupCAPT (Honda Supplier)ChryslerCoors Brewing Co.Dixie GroupDow ChemicalDuPontE J GalloEastman ChemicalEaton CorporationEnergizerFarley NuclearFederal MogulFounder's Furniture, div. of ThomasvilleGeorgia PowerGMGoodYearHolnam CementInova Health SystemsKimberly ClarkLeiner Health ProductsM & M MarsMail AmericaMueller
Neptune TechnologyNewton InstrumentsNorthrop GrummanOlin ChemicalOwens CorningParker Hannifan CorporationPass & SeymourPerry Foam ProductsPGT IndustriesPolyplyProtein TechnologiesRexam PharmaS & W ManufacturingSeamanSiemensSoffixSolo CupsSouthern CompanyStanley FurnitureSteelscapeTemple InlandThomasville FurnitureTycoUnileverVermeer ManufacturingWatsonWestinghouseWIX-DanaWranglerWyeth Pharmaceuticals
KeyTrain Unique Features
• Instructional Design– Natural Voice Sound Track – Contextualized Feedback
• Staff Experience– More than 120 years combined WorkKeys experience– Previous ACT executives, some of the earliest pioneers
• Easy to use– User friendly yet powerful management system– Consistent , easy navigation: focus on learning, not software
• Results– Their success = their clients’ success– Features and processes that focus on learning
• Customer Service– 24/7 for the last 11 years– Our philosophy
Resources:
• Presenter: Cindy Miller, Frenship ISD CTE Coordinator ([email protected])
• ACT WorkKeys Texas Representative: Day Smith ([email protected])
• National Career Readiness Certificate (www.act.org/certificate)
• WorkKeys Curricula—Career Ready 101 at www.keytrain.com.