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Providing Pertinent Programming with an
Emphasis on Careers
The Changing World…… Students need a higher
level of competency to survive and succeed in the 21st century.
Young people entering the workforce after high school or college will need to constantly learn new skills and update existing skills in order to succeed.
The Changing World…… Students must have
the knowledge and tools to make wise decisions as participants in a labor market that is characterized by economic, demographic, and technological change.
Preparing Our Students
The goal of Tech
Prep in South Dakotais to prepare allstudents for theirfuture after high school.
South DakotaCareer Development Framework
Comprehensive Guidance & Counseling Framework
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Career Clusters/Pathways
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Guidance Central
The SD Framework is built on Strategies and Tools for Transitions
A seamless system A work in process Emphasis is on all levels
Middle High School Postsecondary
Personal Learning Plans The goal is for each high school student
to have a personal learning plan based on their individual interests and aptitudes with a career cluster/pathway identified.
Guidance Central through Bridges.com will be provided to all high schools to serve as a planning and resource tool.
Guidance Central
Statewide initiative Privately funded
Explore – Plan – Achieve Choices Explorer- uniquely engaging
career and education exploration. Choices Planner- for follow up on planning
& connections to colleges. testGEAR- on-line test preparation
curriculum for more prepared students and higher ACT scores
South Dakota Career Assessment Program
The South Dakota Career Assessment Program (SD CAP) is required for all students in grades 8 or 9 by SD Administrative Board Rule.
Student Portfolio Career and Life
Planning Portfolio Career and
Education Planning
Skills Employers Want
Projects/Work Samples
Assessment Results
Career Clusters
Career Clusters are groupings of occupations and industries.
These groupings are used as an organizing tool for curriculum design.
Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
Finance
Architecture & Construction
Education & Training
Arts, AV Tech & Communications
Government & Public Administration
Business, Mgt & Admin.
Health Science
Hospitality & Tourism
Manufacturing
Human Services
Marketing Sales & Services
Information Technology
Science, Tech, Engineering & Mathematics
Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
Sixteen Career Clusters
What do Career Clusters DO? Provide a framework for career technical
education programs Provide a framework for seamless education –
from high school to postsecondary to the workplace
Provide MORE career options for learners Provide a framework for addressing the entire
world of work Provide a picture of how Knowledge and Skills
transfer vertically and horizontally Provide for integration of academics with career
technical education and integration of career technical education with academics
Teachers As Advisors…….
A classroom guidance delivery system where middle school and high school students are divided into small groups, each facilitated by a local educator, to receive guidance services including personal/social development, academic development and career development.
Overall Purpose
The overall purpose of Teachers as Advisors is to encourage a connection with a caring educator to help students better understand themselves, their strengths and to plan for their future.
Teachers As AdvisorsGives Meaning to Education
Rigor * Relationships * Relevance
Retention
Academic Development
Career Development
Personal/Social Development
TAA Lesson Plans
A “menu” of lesson plans for grades 6-12.
Each lesson is “cross-walked” to employability skills, career development standards, and academic content standards.
Includes a bank of scoring rubrics and a suggested scope and sequence...
The Senior Project…
is a high school capstone experience that requires students to demonstrate not only what they know, but what they can do.
States, school districts, and high schools focusing on restructuring, raising high school standards, and actively engaging all Seniors in a challenging and relevant educational process incorporate the Senior Project.
Senior Project Four Phases
Paper Product Portfolio Presentation
Youth Internships
The South Dakota Youth Internship Program enables school districts to work with local business and community service organizations to provide valuable on-the job experiences for students.
Youth Internships….. It’s a supervised and graded work experience for
high school students. Students participating in the program are placed in an appropriate work setting that relates directly to the students’ possible career choice.
Duration of the experience is recommended to be one semester with no fewer than 90 minutes at the site each day.
Students participating in an approved Youth Internship, work under the terms of a training agreement that has been crafted by the supervising teacher (representing the school) and the worksite supervisor.
Youth Internship Programs Improve the Quality of School-Based Learning by….
Introducing students to modern workplace equipment and actual problems faced in the workplace;
Giving youth access to jobs that require more knowledge and skills than “ordinary youth jobs”;
Enabling educators and employers to work together in preparing students for success in the workplace;
Helping educators connect work-site learning to school-based learning;
Allowing students to experience a career field before 12th grade so that they can “tone up’ their school-based academic and technical program of study before graduation.
Southern Regional Education Board – High Schools That Work
Student Academies
Health Communications Manufacturing Construction
A one-week career exploration opportunity
A distance learning program offered in partnership with Sanford Health and rural schools.
Academy• Target audience: Biology classes• Six sessions focusing on the “hot jobs” in the health field:
pharmacy, radiology, respiratory care, nursing, medical information management, and medical technology.
Tour• Target audience: middle school/junior high health and physical
education classes.• Three sessions: pre op, operating room, post op
Virtual Health
• 18 school districts participated in 2006-07
• “Everything worked great for the VHA Tuesday! I was so impressed! It just turned out that our Superintendent was in the area when it was starting, so I invited him in. He stayed for awhile and was really impressed! He sees the need for more Health Career workers and agrees that this is like shadowing a professional, but never leaving the building.”
Virtual Health Tour 2007
HEALTH IN PARTNERSHIP WITH EDUCATION
• Governor’s Proclamation• Career Fairs• Mock Accidents• Press Releases• Blood Pressure Screening • Healthcare providers presenting to students• Distribution of information to South Dakota
Legislators• February 4-8, 2008
HIPE Week
Tech Prep in conjunction with OCTE and DORH has developed a one day health careers exploration
• Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors• Five Sites – Rapid City, Pierre, Sioux Falls,
Mitchell, and Watertown• Explore All 5 Health Science Pathways• Hands-on Activities• Associate and Bachelor Level Careers• Health Fair• Field Exploration Experience
Scrubs Camp
• Offers a two-day curriculum developed in South Dakota where healthcare providers teach health-related lessons to students in their local middle school.
• Informs students about the opportunities in the health care industry while meeting the standards of the health curriculum.
HOTT Futures
• Forms a partnership between the school and the local healthcare facility.
• Provides an opportunity to learn about careers in health care experts in the field.
HOTT Futures
• Day One of the curriculum features a mock car accident. When the students enter the room they are informed about the accident and told the patient is being brought to their hospital.
• The students are placed in seven different hospital departments which represent 21 different careers in health care.
HOTT Futures
Day Two emphasizes the spread of epidemic diseases with the “Typhoid Mary” activity.
In the activity, students exchange solutions (that could represent body fluids) with others in the class.
After recording who is infected, the class traces the disease back to the original carrier.
HOTT Futures
HOTT Futures kits can be reservedand checked out from any regionalTech Prep coordinator. A healthcareprovider is an essential partner toassist with the curriculum.
HOTT Futures
• Technical Institute Programs
• Hospitals – Different Departments
• Health Clinics• Assisted Living• Nursing Homes• Private Health Care
Providers• Blood Services• EMT• American Red Cross
Career Expo
Marvelous MeaningfulMonthly Math Participants receive math problems each month that
relate to sixteen different careers – one in each of the sixteen career clusters.
The problems encompass and reinforce a variety of math skills and concepts.
Problems are sent via e-mail to participating instructors. During the month, the instructors can incorporate the
problems into lessons. Instructors return the hard copies of each student’s
problems and solutions. From the correct entries submitted, a winner is be
selected. The winner will receive a prize.
Articulation
A cooperative effort between South Dakota high schools, technical institutes and universities links high schools with certificate, diploma, associate and baccalaureate degree programs.
Flexfactor allows you to factor your options by applying credits from a tech school to a public university.
Guidelines are in effect which provide a coordinated statewide system.
www dot flexfactor
dot info
Professional Development
A coordinated statewide process is in effect which allows for needs of individual school districts.
Resources Curriculum
Materials In-service
Training Travel Costs Planning
Stipends Mini-grants Websites
Cooperation + Collaboration
= Success
Scott FossumCentral Area CoordinatorMitchell Technical Institute 821 North Capital StreetMitchell, SD 57301 (605) 995-3072scott.fossum@mitchelltech.edu
Contact Information:
Dodie BemisTech Prep Coordinator Lake Area Technical Institute 230 11th Street NEWatertown, SD 57201 605-882-5284 ext. 328bemisd@lakeareatech.edu