Regional Skills Articulation Framework: Education & Industry Alignment Initiative Greater Brownwood Region Chamber Meeting November 19, 2010 Michael Brown, SkillsNET [email protected]
Regional Skills Articulation
Framework:Education & Industry Alignment Initiative
Greater Brownwood RegionChamber Meeting
November 19, 2010
Michael Brown, [email protected]
Basic Solution: Industry Requirements must have some association and impact to education and labor market (Talent Pipeline).
Basic Formula: Use common language metrics to define the career, design readiness courses / programs to build regional capacity.
Basic Approach:Align education programs and employer expectations
Basic Problem:People, Politics, Parochialism, and Performance!
Making it more simple:
The Education Workforce committee
Industry Employers Identifying Skills
Education CTE Programs Crosswalk Review
Brownwood area leaders understand the challenge.
Key activities to address the challenge…..
Greater Brownwood Education and Workforce Alignment Challenge
Michael Bettersworth. TSTC. November 2010
Barr Fabrication
In Process Pending
Market-Driven Participation
Skills Articulation Framework:Building Industry Capacity
CTETEKS Learning
Objectives
Post-SecondaryCompetencies &Skill Certificates
IndustryCertification
Work-basedCertification
TEKS Manufacturing Cluster
Foundational Developmental Employability Interoperability
Education & Training Value Feedback / Best Practices
Educators and Employers MUST Team to Offer Learning That is Relevant
The greater the challenge, the more important that we all work together
Thank You!