PREPARING STUDENTS FOR A COMPETITIVE 21ST CENTURY

WORKFORCE: OAKLAND COUNTY

Career Focused Education and Special Education Dialogue

December 16, 2014

What has been happening? Center program post-high workgroups Dialogue with CTE office of MDE

CFE & SE Work Group starting Feb. 2015 Development of an Array of Vocational Options Process /tools to support local districts in considering

OSTC for students with an IEP

State CTE clarification/TA for Perkins programs

Student focus “Right student for right cluster” Perkins & CTE

Standards for completers CTE v vocational District CTE (chart)

OSTC ENROLLMENT BY CLUSTER FOR STUDENTS WITH AN IEP 2014-2015

TABLE CONVERSATIONRIGHT STUDENT, IN THE RIGHT PROGRAM, FOR THE RIGHT REASON

What are the array of career preparation options in your district? Where are your gaps?

What is the process in your district for considering career preparation options in your district? What is the process for considering your district CTE options or

the OSTC for a student with an IEP?

How do you know you are considering the right student for the right program, for the right reason?

NEXT STEPS

What is missing? What is needed locally? Regionally? How do district personnel have the

conversations with students about choices and when?

What resources do district staff need to assist in the selection process?

video

Written pamphlet

PURPOSE: provide

overview of today’s CTE

Dialogue guide with electronic embedded links to job related aptitudes, dispositions, related fields, etc.

Podcast or video related to the above

PURPOSE:Assist

students in making

decisions in career paths

One pager that speaks to knowing the context of the CTE environment

PURPOSE: provide

considerations for development

of an iep for student who is enrolling in a CTE option

One pager

Tool that is worksheet format; podcast that works thru looking at a completed IEP and identifying where accommodations are located

PURPOSE:Providing CTE instructional

staff with guidance on how

to understand their obligations

for IEP accommodations

Video/Podcast [seeing difference critical!] with accompanying side by side or similar document

PURPOSE: Understandi

ng the differences

between CTE & Vocational

Training