PDF version of the slide deck of the Oregon Career Connected Learning Framework presentation from the Oregon CTE-STEM Summer Network Meeting on August 4, 2021. For additional help and/or questions please contact Jim Taylor at jim.taylor@state.or.us
Students connect their future career choices and decisions with budgeting practice and identifying the type of lifestyle they will be able to live based on their career choices.
Internships are an important mechanism for providing students an opportunity to explore a career and apply the skills and knowledge from school into a business setting. Canby High School was awarded a CTE Revitalization grant in 2011 to help them expand their internship program. Below are the resources and forms that Canby developed to guide the implementation of this project.
The Oregon Career Connected Learning Framework graphic provides a visual representation of Oregon's definition of CCL and potential activities that learners can participate in during their career education and development. Under the umbrella of Career Connected Learning, there are 4 domains: Awareness, Exploration, Preparation and Training. Within the 2 domains of Preparation and Training, lies the opportunity for Work-based learning.Users may incorporate this graphic into their work when communicating and providing professional development with regards to the CCL Framework and its four domains.
Adam Randall and his team at both Henley Middle School and Henley High School launched with great success, the piloting of the YouScience platform https://www.youscience.com/ . This platform is a specialized assessment process that engages students in brain games for nearly an hour total and provides detailed results of the students natural abilities, innate skills and examples of how the student might most successfully utilize their aptitudes and interests in preparation for career selection. During the 2020-2021 school year, Henley was 1 of 7 schools in Southern Oregon to start the 18 month pilot. Join us to hear Adam share 3 important aspects of the YouScience implementation process: What to do prior to delivering the brain games How to best deliver the brain games How to best engage with your students with the results of their brain games