leading the way: career clusters™
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Leading the Way: Career Clusters™. CAREER CLUSTERS™: HELPING TO MEET TODAY ’ S CHALLENGES. The Changing U.S. Workforce. Professional 20%. Professional 20%. Source: Pathways to Prosperity, Harvard, February 2011. National Initiatives. Continuing Effects of Globalization of Economy. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Leading the Way: Career Clusters™
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CAREER CLUSTERS™: HELPING TO MEET TODAY’S CHALLENGES
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The Changing U.S. Workforce
Professional
20%
Professional
20%
Source: Pathways to Prosperity, Harvard, February 2011
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National Initiatives
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Continuing Effects of Globalization of
Economy
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• Engagement • Achievement • Transition
Challenges Our Students Face
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Engagement
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Why Do They Leave?
0%5%
10%15%20%25%30%35%40%45%50% Boring classes
Too many absences
Peer group
Too much personalfreedom
Failing in school
Source: “The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts” Civic Enterprises, 2006
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• Engagement • Achievement • Transition
Challenges Our Students Face
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High School Achievement
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• Engagement • Achievement • Transition
Challenges Our Students Face
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Transitions from High School
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THEN NOW
15
Vocational Education Career Technical Education
For a Few Students For All Students
For a Few “Jobs” For All “Careers”
6 to 7 “Program Areas” 16 Career Clusters –
79 Career Pathways
In lieu of Academics Aligns/Supports Academics
Limited articulation Portable, transferrable credit
Secondary vs. Post Secondary
Secondary w/ Post Secondary
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CAREER CLUSTERS™: A BIT OF HISTORY
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Career Clusters™
• Began in the late 1990s with grants from the U.S. Department of Education
• Career Clusters™ were identified by looking at a variety of other ‘groupings’
• Organized by common knowledge and skills
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How Were Career Clusters™
Developed?
• Grants to states
• National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium
• National Advisory Committees– Business and Industry
– Labor
– Government
– Education (secondary and postsecondary)
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Career Clusters™ are 16 groupings
of occupations and industries based on commonalities.
What are Career Clusters™?
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Organize academic and technical knowledge and skills into a coherent sequence and
Identify pathways from secondary to postsecondary education
What do Career Clusters™ do?
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Agriculture Hospitality/Tourism
Architecture/Construction Human Services
Arts/Communication IT
Business Law/Public Safety
Education Manufacturing
Finance Marketing
Government STEM
Health Transportation
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CAREER CLUSTERS™:THE MODEL
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“Hierarchy of Model”
• Occupational specific
• Career Pathway
• Career Cluster™
• Career Ready Practices
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WHAT’S NEXT?
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Common CTE Standards
• Vision called for the development of world-class CTE program standards
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Why do we need common
state standards for CTE?
• Consistent, high- quality expectations and rigorous programs of study
• College and career readiness
• Share best practices and develop new and better resources
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What is the Common Career Technical
Core?
• State-led initiative to establish a shared set of high-quality Career Technical Education (CTE) standards
• Includes a set of standards for each of the 16 Career ClustersTM, as well as an overarching set of Career Ready Practices
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States that have declared support
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What criteria were used to develop the standards?
• National Career ClustersTM
Framework
• 2008 Knowledge and Skills Statements
• Common Core State Standards Guidelines and Process
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What is the scope and use of the CCTC standards?
• Address the educational expectations across an entire program of study by setting clear goals and expectations for what students should know and be able to do
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LEADING CHANGETRANSFORMING EXPECTATIONS
MAKING THE DIFFERENCE