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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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