Career Awareness Strategies

Revisited

2010 Identified Priorities

Outcomes – Help establish an outcomes-based system for moving successfully from one phase of a student’s education to the next.

Educator Development and Support – Develop improvements in VT’s pre-service teacher training system with goals of supporting teachers for the shift from a culture of teaching to a culture of learning.

Career Awareness/Exploration – Develop innovative approaches to integrate career awareness and exploration into the educational experience of all Vermonters across the cradle to workforce continuum.

Working Groups 2011

Three Working Groups established, each reflecting a modification and focusing of the initial priorities:

Performance-Based Learning Curriculum Alignment Stop-Out Strategies for adults

with some college credit

Stop-Out Strategies

Targets adults who have some postsecondary education, but have not completed a certificate, associates degree or other.

Create a public engagement campaign

Create an online resource that outlines statewide programs and resources for adults

Create a permanent adult post-secondary task force

Recommendation

Focus on 2 established working groups for next 18 months: Alignment Performance-based Learning

Revisit Career Awareness Strategies at end of 18 months