Ohio English Language Arts Supervisors February 17, 2011

1. Ohio English Language Arts SupervisorsFebruary 17, 2011 Harold Niehaus Director of Instructional Development Lona P. Bowman Humanities Supervisor We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

2. What questions do you have in your mind when we say that the topic for the day is “career readiness?” We will do our best to address those today. Please see your handouts for the references associated with our content. We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

3. Career and College Ready • Alignment • Today Show segment • Edutopia article – “Merging Career Tech with College Prep: Why It’s Succeeding” We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

4. Career Technical Models of Delivery in Ohio • Comprehensives • Compacts • Cities • Magnet schools • Career tech centers • Career academies We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

5. Miami Valley Career Technology Center • Range of students • Jobs/careers that cannot be outsourced • Lifelong learners We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

6. Miami Valley Career Technology Center • Results • Overall post-program placement (2008) = 92.54% • Higher education/post-secondary training = 63.64% • Employment = 57.46% • Apprenticeship = 0.47% • Military = 5.24% We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

7. Common Core State Standards • Standards for Literacy in . . . Technical Subjects • “Literacy standards for grade 6 and above are predicated on teachers of . . . technical subjects using their content area expertise to help students meet the particular challenges of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language in their respective fields.” We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

8. Common Core State Standards • “. . . the overwhelming focus of writing throughout high school should be on arguments and informative/ explanatory texts.” • 2011 NAEP Writing Framework, grade 12 • To persuade 40% • To explain 40% • To convey experience 20% We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

9. Common Core State Standards • “. . . the Standards demand that a significant amount of reading of information texts take place in and outside the ELA classroom.” • 2009 NAEP Reading Framework, grade 12 • Literary 30% • Informational 70% We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

10. Career Tech The Common Core and More! We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

11. Employment • International Center for Leadership in Education – Bill Daggett – “What We Know about Adolescent Reading” • Lexile Requirements for Adolescent and Adult Reading • “. . . entry-level job reading requirements exceed the reading requirements of all but the most technical college coursework.” We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

12. Employment • International Center for Leadership in Education – Bill Daggett – “What We Know about Adolescent Reading” • Literacy includes • Information location and retrieval • Information processing • Information application, evaluation, and synthesis We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

13. Employment • ACT WorkKeys® – Reading for Information We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

14. Employment • ACT WorkKeys® – Locating Information We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

15. Employment • ACT WorkKeys® - Business Writing We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

16. Employment • ACT WorkKeys® - Listening We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

17. Employment • ACT WorkKeys® - Writing We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

18. Apprenticeship • Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) – Test of Adult Basic Education • National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (NJATC) of National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

19. Military • ASVAB • Word knowledge • Paragraph comprehension We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

20. 21st Century Skills • Creativity and Innovation • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • Communication and Collaboration • Information Literacy • Media Literacy • Information, Communications, and Technical Literacy • Flexibility and Adaptability • Initiative and Self-Direction • Social and Cross-Cultural Skills • Productivity and Accountability • Leadership and Responsibility We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

21. Career Tech The Common Core and More! We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.

22. Miami Valley Career Technology Center • Harold Niehaus – Director of Instructional Development • hniehaus@mvctc.com • 937-854-6674 • Lona P. Bowman – Humanities Supervisor • lbowman@mvctc.com • 937-854-6293 We are dedicated to providing premier educational choices and advanced employment preparation for youth, adults, and organizations of the Miami Valley. Career Tech is the Common Core and more.