Maine CTE Industry Aligned Credentialing College Articulation and Dual Enrollment * New* Bridge Plan.

Maine CTE

Industry Aligned CredentialingCollege Articulation and Dual Enrollment

* New* Bridge Plan

Programs of Study

Standards

Assessments

Articulation Agreements

Dual Credit

*Something new*

About Maine CTE

• 135 High Schools connecting with 27 CTE centers and regions

• Mid-Coast Region– Region 8/ Mid-Coast School of Technology• 7 sending schools including 2 islands

Programs of Study• Educational plan defined for a student career

pathway• Describes progression from secondary to

postsecondary levels, identifying required courses and sometimes including CTE.

• Maine secondary CTE schools are required to document the necessary secondary courses at both the student’s high school and CTE center/region through postsecondary options

StandardsEach Maine CTE program has adopted one or more national or state-level standards tied to the needs of business and industry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEPFA5wRkv0

Why 3rd Party Assessment and Credentialing • Assessments are used by CTE instructors as a

program pre-test, as part of a formative assessment plan, and as an end-of-program exam providing students with certification.

– Some assessments are industry-specific skills• CTEC Small Engines and Multi Media

– Some assess general workplace skills.• CTEC Workplace Readiness Skills Pre- and Post-Test

The Guiding Principles state that each Maine student must leave school as-

• Provides detailed analysis-– Consistent measure to document baseline

performance and changes in achievement.– Aligned with the skills and knowledge that

students acquire in CTE programs.

Earning a Credential, Certificate and /or License

Dr. James R. Stone III, Ed.D., the Director of the NRCCTE at the University of Louisville

• 63% of all jobs will require some college or better by 2018

• What is better……• Credential, certificate and license• Associate Degree plus credential, certificate

and license

Program College Articulation

• Articulation links single secondary CTE school program to single postsecondary CTE program at a single college– Simultaneously earn secondary and postsecondary

credit– Escrow credit

Beal College - Anatomy Maine Community Colleges - Culinary ServSafe

Program Dual Enrollment• http://www.mccs.me.edu/colleges/colleges.htmlEarn college credit that is transferable, student has a college transcript…..and a college ID

Examples of dual enrollment:Residential Construction: First year students

CMCC - Intro to Hand & Power Tool Safety= 1 Credit 2nd Year students

EMCC - BCT 151 Residential Construction + 7 Credits

*New* Bridge Plan

Graduate high school with a “whole bunch of college credits” through the University of Maine Orono

Earn academic college credit while in high school- 30 credit hours!!!!!

Earn CTE college credit4 CTE schools piloting - 1 CTE school with 1 high

schoolCohort of students will participate in career

exploration and job shadowing