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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 Presentation
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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
• Engagement • Achievement • Transition
Challenges Our Students Face
Engagement
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
• Engagement • Achievement • Transition
Challenges Our Students Face
High School Achievement
• Engagement • Achievement • Transition
Challenges Our Students Face
Transitions from High School
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
CAREER CLUSTERS™: A BIT OF HISTORY
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
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)
Career Clusters™ are 16 groupings
of occupations and industries based on commonalities.
What are Career Clusters™?
Organize academic and technical knowledge and skills into a coherent sequence and
Identify pathways from secondary to postsecondary education
What do Career Clusters™ do?
Agriculture Hospitality/Tourism
Architecture/Construction Human Services
Arts/Communication IT
Business Law/Public Safety
Education Manufacturing
Finance Marketing
Government STEM
Health Transportation
CAREER CLUSTERS™:THE MODEL
“Hierarchy of Model”
• Occupational specific
• Career Pathway
• Career Cluster™
• Career Ready Practices
WHAT’S NEXT?
Common CTE Standards
• Vision called for the development of world-class CTE program standards
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
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
States that have declared support
What criteria were used to develop the standards?
• National Career ClustersTM
Framework
• 2008 Knowledge and Skills Statements
• Common Core State Standards Guidelines and Process
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
