1. It’s Career Education
Preparing students
for college and career

2. Remember this?

3. What’s the difference?
Vocational Education Career Education
 Job specific training  Career Preparation
 Six Disciplines  Six Fields/Sixteen Clusters
 High School Focused  K-12 and Postsecondary
 Align with and Support
 In Lieu of Academics
Academics
 Only for Some Students  For All Students

4. Kansas Career Education
 Kansas Career Cluster Model
 Create New Partnerships

5. Aspects of Career Education:
 Career and Technical Education
– knowledge and skill development in
career areas
 Career Guidance and Counseling
– focused on career awareness, exploration
and preparation
 Career Awareness Integration
– infusing career application into all
education

6. New Model
elevant to current workplace
ligned with postsecondary
lexible responsive to change

9. Current Initiatives
Programs of Study
 Sequencing of CTE Courses
 Alignment with Academic Coursework
 Transition to Postsecondary
 Provide for Articulation/Dual Credit
 Tool for Student Personal Learning Plan

10. Programs of Study
 Lead to a degree or credential
 Certificate at postsecondary level
 Associate or baccalaureate degree
 Industry-recognized credential
 Sequence of a minimum of 3 semester courses
that lead to a specific career cluster and/or
pathway

11. Student Interest Data
Labor Market Data
Office of Rural Opportunity
Course vs. Program Inventory
Restructure

12. Larger Learning Communities
 Specialization
 Multiple Pathways Model
 Preparing students for postsecondary
education and career
 Connecting academics to real–world
applications
 Leading students to the full range of
postsecondary opportunities
 Improving student achievement

14. Larger Learning Communities
 Online Learning
 Today’ s Class
 Distance Learning
 Virtual Job Shadows/Mentoring
 www.Icouldbe.org
 www.Skype.com or www.Oovoo.com

15. Goal:
A Career Education System
• Kansas Career Cluster Model
•Career Awareness, Exploration, and
Preparation
• Aligned Curriculum
• Secondary/Postsecondary Transitions
• Focus on 21st Century Teaching, Learning and
Skills

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