This was my presentation from ISTE where I covered content about career and technical education. I am a member of the State of Hawaii Workforce Development Council appointed by the Governor.

1. STEM Careers and CTE
Preparation for the “real-world”
Jeff Piontek
Hawaii Technology Academy

2. Why 21st Century Skills?

3. Preparation for the“Real World”?
“So the good boys and girls take the so called
right track
Faded white hats
Grabbing credits
Maybe transfers
They read all the books but they can't find the
answers”
John Mayer
“No Such Thing”

4. ICLE RRR Network

5. So how does technology fit in?
Just because it’s TECHNOLOGY
Doesn’t make it ENGAGING!
“A lot of teachers think they make a PowerPoint
and they’re so awesome! …But it’s just like
writing on the blackboard. And then they
read them to us! Why should I have to go to
hear it read?”
-- a high school junior
Teachers need to understand new technology to
help students evaluate the quality NOT try to master each
NEW technology…You WILL FAIL
Marc Prensky 2007

6. Do we know our kids?
NOT little us’s anymore!
• Digital Learners
• Today’s younger learnersare NOT the ones our systems (and teachers) were
designed and trained to teach!
– 5-10,000 hours Video Games
– 250,000 emails and IMs
– 10,000 hours on cell phones
– 20,000 hours TV (incl. MTV)
– 500,000 commercials
– < 5,000 hours book reading
• “We grow up interacting – through
computers and through our cell
phones – and that’s how we learn.”

7. UGGHHH!
I can’t
learn all
that tech
stuff!
© 2007 Marc Prensky

8. SHARE THE WORK
Let Students Let Teachers
do what they do what they
do well do well
Use the technology, Evaluate, find quality,
Find content provide context

9. What about those kids who
don’t care?
Improving Dropouts’ Chances of Staying in School – Based on
HS Dropout Responses
• Opportunities for real-world learning to make classroom
more relevant(81% agree)
• Better teachers who keep classes interesting (81%
agree)
• Smaller classes with more individual instruction (75%
agree)
• Better communication between parents and school, get
parents more involved (71% agree)
• Parents make sure their kids go to school every day (71%
agree)
• Increase supervision at school; ensure students attend
classes (70%)
Source: Catherine Gewertz, “H.S. Dropouts Say Lack of Motivation Top Reason to Quit,” Education Week, Vol. 25, No. 26. March 8, 2006. p.
14.

10. CTE Image
Only for Just taking
students who “fluff”
can’t hack it classes
academically
Not for my kid;
My kid’s going to Dull, Dingy,
college! Dirty
Factory Work

11. CTE TRACKS
• Today’s trades are high wage, highly
skilled, and technical
• Perkins IV opens up CTE to all post-secondary
goals including university
• Legislation requires integration &improved
rigor of CTE courses
• Of all HS graduates, about 53% enter a four-year
college directly and only 35% earn a bachelor’s
degree(Adelman, 2006)

12. CTE & Academic Integration
• In 2006, J.R. Stone III, Alfeld, Pearson, Lewis, and
Jensen studied the effect of an integrated CTE math
program on achievement
• Significant improvements in math were
demonstrated in the experimental group with no loss
of technical skill knowledge.
• Further, increased student scores on post-secondary
placement tests implied less need for
remediationpost-secondary.

13. CTE & Academic Integration
Preparing students for college OR for work only
plays against demands of today’s reality
BEST Practices
Start small Teach together
Get support Get trained
Avoid turf wars Plan together
Involve business Be flexible
*Evaluate the effort*

14. Learning in Class AND
through Work
• Work-based Learning
Connections
to the
REAL WORLD

15. Bottom
Line:
What Can
I Do?

16. After sobering up…Now What?
Partner, Partner,
Partner
Don’t go it ALONE
Involve Parents, Community, Business, and your CTE
Teachers!

17. When
will all this
change
END!??

18. IT
WON”T!

19. We NEED to
TURN
And
FACE
the future

20. 15 Global Challenges
How can sustainable development be
1 How can sustainable development be
achieved for all for all while addressing
achieved while addressing global
global climate change?
climate change?
How can everyone have sufficient
2
How can everyone have sufficient
clean water without conflict?
clean water without conflict?
How can ethical considerations
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How can ethical considerations
become more routinely
become more routinely
3
Howcan population growth and
How can population growth and
incorporated into global decisions?
incorporated into global decisions? resources be broughtbalance?
resources be brought into into balance?
How can scientific and
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How can scientific and
How can genuine democracy
4
How can genuine democracy
technological breakthroughs be
technological breakthroughs be emerge from authoritarian
emerge from authoritarian
regimes?
accelerated to improve the
accelerated to improve the regimes?
human condition?
human condition? How can policymaking be
5
How can policymaking be
How can growingenergy
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How can growing energy made moresensitive to to
made more sensitive
demands be metsafely and
demands be met safely and global long-term
global long-term
efficiently? perspectives?
efficiently?
How can transnational perspectives?
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How can transnational How can the global
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How can the global
organized crime networks be
organized crime networks be convergence of information
convergence of information
stopped from becomingmore
stopped from becoming more and communications
and communications
powerful and sophisticated
powerful and sophisticated technologies work for
technologies work for
everyone?
global enterprises?
global enterprises?
How can the changing everyone?
How can the changing
7How can ethical market
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How can ethical market
status of women improve
status of women improve economies be encouraged to
economies be encouraged to
the human condition?
the human condition? help reduce the gap between
help reduce the gap
How can shared values and new rich and poor?
10 How can shared values and new between rich and poor?
security strategies reduce ethnic How can the threat of new and and
security strategiesreduce ethnic How can the threat of new
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conflicts, terrorism,and the useuse of reemerging diseases and immune
conflicts, terrorism, and the of reemerging diseases and immune
weapons of mass destruction? microorganisms be reduced?
weapons of mass destruction? microorganisms be reduced?
How can the capacity to decide be be
9 How can the capacity to decide
improved as the nature of work and and
improved as the nature of work
institutions change?
institutions change?

22. Schools of Hope
• Sociologist Anthony Campolo’s “test”: Complete the
sentence, “I want my child to be….”
• In Japan, mothers say, “I want my child to be….
…successful” (and youth culture pays a high price)
• In America, mothers say, “I want my child to be…
….happy” (and youth culture pays a high price)
• Right answer? “I want my child to be…
… good” (if morally good, then higher likelihood of also
being successful and happy).
(Cf. research on independent school grads by Douglas
Heath: Schools of Hope; and Lives of Hope.

23. The Right Technical Education?
 The U.S. has a science pipeline problem: It begins
in elementary school, as early as kindergarten.
 “In China, Bill Gates is Brittany Spears. In the US…
….Brittany Spears is Brittany Spears, and that is our
problem.” (Tom Friedman, The World Is Flat)

24. Technology Transforming Education
• New delivery systems: wikis, blogs, and podcasting
• New tools: handheld devices, computers, robotics and
nanotechnology
• New Outcomes for teaming and technology goals: Robotics
(create a robot to find and retrieve an object from a building)
and “Rube Goldberg” competitions: combining problem-
solving, team work, science & technology, and competition.
• Robotics!!

25. Communication Skills for the 21st C.
• Annual Gallop Poll on What Americans Fear Most:
1. Public Speaking
2. Chronic Illness
3. Snakes
4. Death
• 21st C. Schools:
 ongoing emphasis on writing skillfully (new SAT is helping
grammar make a comeback)
 renewed emphasis on public speaking: recitations,
declamations, debate, extemporaneous speaking, and
story-telling.

26. A Whole New Mind ~
Daniel Pink
• “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~ Albert
Einstein. Is Einstein right?
• “The truth is a great mind must be androgynous” ~ Samuel
Taylor Coleridge.
– Note: Douglas Heath’s research (Schools of Hope; Lives of Hope) on
successful independent school graduates: psychological maturity;
virtue; androgyny.

27. A Whole New Mind ~ Daniel Pink
• Left-brain dominated schools and economy:
• 20thC. belonged to the left brain analytical thinking,
measured by SATs and schooled by knowledge acquisition.
• Produced an economy and society built on analysis and
based on logical, linear, technological capabilities of the
Information Age.
• Rewards went to techies writing code; attorneys crafting
contracts; MBAs crunching numbers.
• These skills will still be necessary but not sufficient.

28. A Whole New Mind ~ Daniel Pink
• Right brain transformation of the economy and society:
• 21st. C will belong to the right brain, measured by
creativity and empathy.
• Produced by an economy that outsources production of
goods and intellectual professional services and a
society built on the inventive, empathetic, big-picture
understanding of the Conceptual Age
• Rewards will go to creators; empathizers (EQ); pattern
recognizers; meaning makers: i.e., artists, inventors,
designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture
thinkers. The “Creative Class.”
• Right brain rising into prominence.

29. Average of CTE Students enrolled
nationally
Percent of High School CTE
• Half (50%) of all grade 10-12 high Enrollment (10-12)
school students enroll in CTE
courses 50%
• 19% of the class of 2010
completed a CTE program of
study
Percent of High School CTE
• 51% of the CTE graduates also Graduates
completed the coursework for 19%
entrance to IHE’s, this is
considered a “Dual Completer”
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30. CTE
Restructuring Career & Technology Education for a
Technologically Advanced Global Society
• Industry-driven design
around Career Clusters
• Focus on Problem Solving
& Critical Thinking in CTE
• Breadth, Depth, & Value
Added in CTE Programs
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31. CTE Program Elements
• Standards-based curriculum: academic & technical
• Value-added options for students (certification &
college credit)
• Work-based learning opportunities (industry
partners)
• Oversight and quality assurance
• Teacher professional development (and certification)
• Program sustainability
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32. Rigor/Relevance Framework
Evaluation 6
Synthesis 5 High Rigor High Rigor
Low Context High Context
Analysis 4
Application 3
Understanding 2 Low Rigor Low Rigor
Low Context High Context
Awareness 1
1 2 3 4 5
Knowledge Apply in Apply Apply to Apply to
Discipline Across Predictable Unpredictable
Disciplines Real-World Real-World
Situations Situations
Adapted from W. Daggett

33. Ten Career Clusters
1. Arts, Media, & Communication
2. Business, Management & Finance
3. Construction & Development
4. Consumer Services, Hospitality, & Tourism
5. Environmental, Agricultural, &
Natural Resources
6. Health & Biosciences
7. Human Resource Services
8. Information Technology
9. Manufacturing, Engineering & Technology
10. Transportation Technologies
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34. CTE Programs of Study
Showcasing Programs
• Project Lead The Way – Engineering
• Project Lead The Way – Biomedical Sciences
• Information Networking (Cisco)
• Automotive Technology
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35. PLTW Engineering
Fastest Growing CTE Program
PLTW Engineering Enrollment Trend, 2004-2010
8000
7042
7000
6000
5096
5000
4000
3228
3000 2513
2000
1404
944
1000
141
0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
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36. PLTW Engineering
Enrollment (2010)
7,042 Students Enrolled
Gender
• Males 4,902(70%)
• Females 2,140 (30%)
– Female enrollment increased by 5% from 2009

37. Growth of PLTW Biomedical Sciences
PLTW Enrollment Trend Biomedical Sciences 2008 - 2010
700 659
600
500
440
400
300
200 181
100
0
2008 2009 2010
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38. PLTW Biomedical Sciences Enrollment
(2010)
659 Students Enrolled
Gender
• Males 213(32%)
• Females 446 (68%)
– No change in the percent enrolled from 2009.

39. Growth of IT Networking Academy
(CISCO)
IT Networking Enrollment 2008 - 2010
1600
1464
1400
1140 1197
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
2008 2009 2010
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40. IT Networking
Stackable Credentials
Students in the IT Networking (Cisco) CTE Program of Study
can earn the following nationally-recognized credentials:
• A+ Certification: Focuses on installation, preventative
maintenance, networking, security and troubleshooting
• Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (C-CENT): Focuses on
installing, operating and troubleshooting small enterprise branch
networks
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA): Focuses on
installing, configuring, operating, and troubleshoot ing medium-
size route and switched networks
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41. Growth in Automotive Technology
Automotive Technology Enrollment Trend 2008 - 2010
1200
980
1000
800
600 531
518
400
200
0
2008 2009 2010
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42. Automotive Technology
Credentials & Articulation
Credential:
• The National Automotive Technicians Education
Foundation (NATEF) Student Certification starts the
process for the Automotive Service Excellence
Certification
Articulation Agreements:
• Community Colleges
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43. Get the message out!
• Education Today & Tomorrow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS301K3EJrY
&feature=related (SEP 2006)
• A Vision for 21st Century Learning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mirxkzkxuf4
&feature=related (FEB 2009)
• Top 10 Tips for Using Tech in the Classroom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiisteObuhk&
feature=related (AUG 2008)
• A vision of K12 Students Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=741RcADGNj
A&feature=fvsr (FEB 2010)

44. "We (teachers) must prepare learners
for their future, not for our past.”
David Thornburg
Jeff.piontek@gmail.com