CTE Programs: Moving to Pathways with Courses

1. CTE Programs: Moving to Pathways with Courses

3. What is a Career Field? Career Field A career field is a grouping of occupations and broad industries based on commonalities. Content standards are written to the career field and the careers for which the pathway programs will focus. Pathway Course

4. What is a CTE Pathway? A pathway program prepares students for a range of careers for one or more industry sectors within a career cluster. It includes a sequence of rigorous academic and career-technical courses, commencing as early as the 7th grade and leads to a college degree, an industry recognized certificate and/or licensure. Prepares students for job opportunities after high school and provides opportunities to enter and succeed in postsecondary and continuing education programs. Career Field Pathway Course

5. What is a CTE Course? Career Field A course is an instructional unit that includes a set of defined outcomes and competencies and provides a measure of evaluation and assessment. Pathway Course

6. A Pathway Structure for Ohio CTE

7. Business-Marketing-Finance New Pathways Former Pathways Admin. & Professional Support Business Management Legal Management and Support Medical Management and Support Accounting Financial Services Acquisition and Logistics Entrepreneurship High School of Business Marketing Communications Marketing Management • Business and Administrative Services • Finance • Marketing

8. Construction Technology Example New Pathways Former Pathways Brick, Block & Cement Masonry Building & Property Maintenance Building Technology Carpentry Heavy Equipment Operations Electrical Trades Environmental Control Technologies Plumbing and Pipefitting Construction Design - Build Construction - Management Custodial Services Interior Design Applications Wood Product Technologies • Structural Systems • Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing • Design and Facility Management

9. Fire & Emergency Medical Criminal Justice Firefighter Training Emergency Medical Technician Law Career Path Criminal Justice Criminal Science Private Security Law and Public Safety Pathways New Pathways Former Pathways

10. Structure of NEW CTE Content Standards

11. Format of the NEW DesignTechnical Content Standards Course & Unit Descriptions Strand: Strands are large content areas under which multiple outcomes are organized. • Includes a concise description that captures multiple, broad areas of learner knowledge and skills expected across the strand and, to the extent possible, the multiple outcomes under the strand. Outcome: • Outcomesare overreaching statements that summarizes the knowledge and skills described in the overall set of individual competencies that follow. Competency: • Competencies are specific statements of essential knowledge or skill to be learned in the components of the pathway program.

12. CTE Technical Content Standards New Standards Old Standards = Strand Multiple Units = Outcome Multiple Competencies = One or more competencies plus indicators Competency

13. One Common Strand:Business 21st Century Standards • Knowledge Management • Employability • Financial Management • Business Ethics and Law • Business Leadership and Communication • Business Literacy • Business Operations • Marketing • Entrepreneurship • Global Environment

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15. CTE Courses

16. Why Courses? • Expanded opportunities for flexible program design. • Consistency of programming and learning. • More transparent and understandable to customers and stakeholders. • Can support creative student pathways. • Supports Ohio’s teacher evaluation system. • Alignment to postsecondary expectations.

17. Standards & Courses 2012-13 (FY13) – Required Fall 2015 (FY16) • Construction • Information Technology • Engineering and Manufacturing • Health • Law and Public Safety • Transportation 2013-14 (FY14) – Required Fall 2016 (FY17) • Arts and Communications • Agriculture & Environmental • Business, Marketing and Finance • Human Services - Cosmetology

18. Support Transcripted Credit Transfer

19. Implementing Courses • Courses generally have a 120 hour minimum (40 minutes/day) and 280-hour maximum time requirement (90 minutes/day). • Pathway program must be comprised of a minimum of 4 courses. Program must still meet the 450 hour minimum requirement. • Capstone can be used for both in-school and out of school learning experiences. (Not one of the 4) • No courses are required as a prerequisite. • Courses must be adopted 2-years after they are available.

20. Business Administration Courses

21. Construction Technologies Courses

22. Law and Public Safety Courses

23. Developing a Course of Study

24. Elements of a Sample Course Outline: Course Name Subject Code: XXXXX Course & Unit Descriptions Career Field Technical Content Standards All Pathways Academic Standards

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26. End-of-Course (EOC) Assessments

27. Career-Technical Education Technical Assessment Redesign

28. Highlights of Assessment Features • All pathways will have a test. • Pathway tests are comprised of end of course (EOC) exams. • Any combination of EOC tests can be used to calculate a students total test score. • Pretest development underway. • Recognition for student achievement.

29. Who Tests When? • End of Course tests are required the year they are available. • Seniors will have same tests available as previous year. • 9-11 grade students should begin taking new end of course tests.

30. CTE Test Timeline Development 2013-14 Available Fall of 2013 • Construction Technology • Law and Public Safety Development 2014-15 Available Fall of 2015 • Business, Marketing and Finance

31. Role of Industry Credentials • Industry credentialing tests will no longer be used in lieu of a State of Ohio CTE Technical Test • Industry credential attainment will be reported on Local District Report card and the CTE report card. -Criteria will be forthcoming. • “Credentials are relevant to employers only to the extent that it leads to more productive employees.”

32. CTE Pathway Program Approval and Renewal

33. Approval of CTE Programming • ORC3317.161 specifies that a city, local or exempted village school district, community school, or STEM school that wishes to offer CTE programming must first seek approval of the lead district in the career technical planning district (CTPD).

34. FY16 Pathway Program Renewal and Approval The lead district’s decision to approve or disapprove shall include but is not limited to: • Demand for the career-technical education program • Quality of the program • Potential for a student enrolled • Admission requirements of lead district • Past performance of the district or school that is offering the program • Traveling distance • Sustainability • Capacity • Availability of the program within the CTPD • In the case of the new program, the cost to begin the program

35. The following timelines will govern the program application process. • Approval is valid for five years. • Lead districts must approve or disapprove CTE programming applications no later than March 1st. • Application to be submitted to ODE by March 1st . • Appeals may be made to the department not later than March 15th. • The department will notify the district or school and the lead district of its decision to approve or disapprove by May 15th.

36. education.ohio.gov Name Office of Career-Technical Education 25 South Front Street, MS###| Columbus, Ohio 43215-4183 (614)Phone| Fax (614) 728-6176 email@education.ohio.gov education.ohio.gov/Topics/Career-Tech