Welcome to Career Development: the Foundation for Moving Onward and Upward

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Welcome to Career Development the Foundation
for Moving Onward and Upward

• Conducted byDr. Sandra Pritz, NOCTI
• Shelley Mauer, EAI

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Introductions

• Introduction of presenters
• NOCTI leader in occupational competency
  assessments
• Education Associates leader in career
  development and basic skills training curricula,
  many for special needs students
• Our partnership

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The Employability and Career Development System

• A comprehensive standards-based curriculum and
  assessment package
• Endorsed by States Career Clusters Initiative
• Jointly developed by NOCTI and
• Education Associates, Inc.

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Career Clusters Initiative

• 16 career clusters
• Foundation knowledge and skills - key skills that
  are necessary no matter what career cluster is
  chosen
• ? Employability and Career
  Development
• ? Communications
• ? Problem Solving
• ? Information Technology
• ? Systems
• ? Safety, Health and Environment
• ? Leadership and Teamwork
• ? Ethics and Legal Responsibilities

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Why this topic and treatment?

• NOCTI and Education Associates partnered to
  develop Employability and Career Development
  System (ECDS) to address the skills most
  demanded by educators and employers alike
• Meets the need to have a comprehensive package of
  both curriculum and assessments closely aligned
  to the knowledge and skill statements

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Standards Correlation

• Competencies match Foundation Knowledge and
  Skills of the States Career Clusters Initiative
  as selected by Subject Matter Experts
• Correlated with the National Career Development
  Guidelines

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Overview of the ECDS

• Goal
• To help students gain the skills to secure
• and keep employment in their chosen field
• System Design
• Online Pre- and Post-Assessment
• 80 hours of curriculum in lesson
• plans enhanced with CDs and DVDs
• Electronic portfolio
• Teacher resources include
• strategies for differentiated
• instruction

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ECDS System Components

• Online Pre/Post Assessments
• Lesson Plan Binder
• Multi-Media Binder 25 DVDs/CDs
• Electronic Portfolio

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Highlights for Ease of ECDS Implementation

• Pre-test score report identifies where to
• place the emphasis
• CD of lesson plans provides for
• easy customization
• Strategies for differentiated
• instruction helps include all students
• Transition to employment is promoted
• by involving community resources

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ECDS Pre- and Post-Assessment

• Multiple choice format sample items available
• Getting Started - Step by Step - with online
  assessment
• Testing Agreement
• Security Policies
• Are You Ready for Online
• Testing?

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NOCTI Online Systems

• Client Services Center
• Retrieve and manage online assessment information
• Review computer setup specifics
• View and print standardized score reports
• Online Assessment Administration
• Pre- and post-assessment administration
• Immediate results
• Online Score Reporting
• Email notification to coordinators when score
  reports are available at the Client Services
  Center
• Access to reports for one year after the test
  date
• Print copies as needed without additional reprint
  fees
• Copy/paste data to create custom reports

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What Does NOCTI Provide?

• Score Reports
• Coordinators Report
• Individual Student Reports
• Customized Reporting Available
• Statistical Information
• Group Data
• Site Data
• State Data
• National Data
• Certificates of Completion
• Personalized Contact Assistance

Note
All results are broken down into duty, category
and total scores.
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Coordinator Score Report
Subparts
Total Percent Correct
Subpart Scores
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Comparative Report
Subparts
Comparative Data by Subpart
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Instructors Implementation Aids

• Lesson Plan Binder
• Instructors Notes
• Overview Chart
• Lesson plans
• Rubrics for performance-based assessment
• Strategies for differentiated instruction

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Content of Lessons

• Career Opportunities/Development
• Securing a Job
• Employability/Job Keeping Skills
• A. Demonstrate employability skills needed
  to keep a job
• B. Demonstrate personal qualities
  appropriate to the work environment
• C. Assess alternative occupational
  opportunities

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Lesson Plans

• Each Lesson Plan contains
• Lesson title
• Competencies
• Materials needed from package (CDs, DVDs)
• Materials you need to get
• Length
• Procedure
• Student Performance Assessment Tasks
• Practice for Performance Handouts (if
  appropriate)

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Multi-Media Binder

• Contains sleeves with CDs, DVDs and Teachers
  Guides
• Grouped according to occurrence in lesson plans
• DVDs at top, CDs at bottom
• DVD Teachers Guides behind

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Multi-Media Binder

• DVDs do not need installation start up upon
  insertion
• CDs are site license versions
• CDs need to be installed instructions provided

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Strategies for Differentiated Instruction

• Provides strategies for special needs students
  for lesson plans
• Reviewers Special Needs Experts Jerry Wircenski
  and Michelle Sarkees

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Pre/Post Comparison Report
Participant Data
Comparative Data
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Electronic Portfolio

• Binder contains CD and Technical Manual
• Records, organizes, and stores school documents,
  job information, and work samples.
• Collection point for the data students need to
  access and update (grades, projects, etc.)
• Culminating product to provide to employers

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Electronic Portfolio

• Use the Electronic Portfolio to store
• Students resumes
• Class projects PowerPoints, Word documents
• Web pages
• Digital pictures, video clips, QuickTime movies

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Pilot Sites

• Capitol Area Career Center Springfield, IL
• - John Bailey, Director
• - Kim Eddings, Resource Room Teacher and
• Special Needs Coordinator
• Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career
  Development Cincinnati, OH
• - the largest career and technical education
• district in the United States
• - Dr. Robin White, President/CEO
• - Ted Kirkpatrick, Pilot Test Coordinator

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Student Benefits

• Gain knowledge to develop career decision-making
  skills
• Identify career opportunities and plan career
  goals
• Gain essential skills necessary to effectively
  compete for employment
• Gain skills to perform effectively on the job
• Evaluate and improve current work-based knowledge
  and performance
• Provide employer with documentation of work-based
  knowledge and skills

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Thank You

• To discuss your questions,
• Call NOCTI at 1-800-334-6283
• Or EAI at 1-800-626-2950