Information Technology Information Technology PreparationPreparation

High School/ Career Center Information Technology

Preparation with Emphasis at the Local Level

Mike Rehner

CIS 889 Winter 2001

Dr Zweben

Two Diverse Teaching Two Diverse Teaching MethodologiesMethodologies

Career Education vs. College Preparation

Fundamental differences in subject matter approach

Merging A technological society needs both

College PreparationCollege Preparation

Roots in Medieval Church/ University Classical education- includes culture Broad principles and theoretical knowledge Curriculum driven by what is taught in college Frequently called education High Schools Category 1 Worker

Career EducationCareer Education

Roots in craftsmanship Difference between need to know and nice to

know Hands- on Curriculum driven by job and task analysis Frequently called training Career Centers Category 2 Worker

College Prep OrganizationsCollege Prep Organizations Institute of Computer Technology (ICT)-

– Intel & Microsoft partnership– Active in West and South

International Society for Technology Education (ISTE)

Engineering Organizations– Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

SIGCSE Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education

SIGCUE Special Interest Group for Computer Uses in Education

– Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Job Analysis used for Certification

College Prep OrganizationsCollege Prep Organizations

Advanced Placement College Prep – Tests developed by College Entrance Examination

Board– College courses taught by high school teachers– Students tested and rated score from 5-1 – AP curriculum determined by a survey of college courses– Includes binary trees and recursive data structures in

curriculum Curriculum flows downward from Accreditation

Board for Engineering & Technology (ABET) accreditation

Career Education Career Education OrganizationsOrganizations

IT.Works- State of Ohio career based education

Education Development Corporation- Assists in the development of education/industry collaborations

Northwest Technology Group- Developed IT Job Analysis Studies

Information Technology Association of America- Business- Education Collaboration

Cisco CorporationCisco Corporation

Plans to grow from and 18 billion dollars to 50 Billion dollars in the next 4years

Needs a 40% increase in technically trained personal

Globally has 6221 Academies with 180,000 students enrolled

E-Learning portal has 8000 resources organized into a set of roadmaps

Local Cisco Academies at Local Cisco Academies at PresentPresent

High School Web Page

Briggs High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/brigghs/index.htm

Centennial High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/centennial/index.html

Delaware JVS South Campus

www.delawarejvs.org

East High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/east/index.html

Northeast Career Center www.columbus.k12.oh.us/north_east_cc/

Southeast Career Center www.columbus.k12.oh.us/southeast/index.html

West High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/west_hs/index.html  

Career Education Teacher Career Education Teacher EducationEducation

Four year business education degreeIndividual may be brought in from

industry and agree to take career education coursework.

Computer Science Teacher Computer Science Teacher EducationEducation

Four year education degreeDegree in computer science and then

education coursesISTE recommends 12 semester hours

in computer science in a 4 year program

Teacher Certification in Teacher Certification in OhioOhio

Vocational Business Education Comprehensive– Information Services and support– Network Systems– Programming and Software Development– Interactive Media

High School Computer Science– 4-5 year education degree

K-12 Computer Science

Local High School/ Career Local High School/ Career Center SurveyCenter Survey

45 local high schools and career centers surveyed

11 responded backVisited Delaware Southern JVSSurvey and results at

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~rehner/WS/CIS/889/Survey/

Information SoughtInformation Sought

School Profile– Number of students and computers– Computer science/computer technology

department

Courses taught– Course Name– Enrollment– Math requirement– Length of course

Information SoughtInformation Sought

Certification– Number of students certified– Number of teachers certified

Major difficulties in managing courseComments- what kind of assistance

could a computer science/computer engineering school provide

High School ProfileHigh School Profile

12 schools responded out of 45Average number of computers- 258Average number of students – 1083Students/ Computer 4.19Number of Computer

Technology/Computer Science Departments- 6

Course OfferingsCourse Offerings

Course Number of Schools

Enrollment

Spread Sheet-Excel 9 742

Data Base- Access 9 582

Web Design 7 278

Networking Cisco 5 92

Programming C++ 4 101

Computer Graphics 4 100

Course OfferingsCourse Offerings

Course Number of Schools

Enrollment

Programming Visual Basic

4 109

Computer Maintenance 4 97

Computer Applications 4 176

Presentation- PowerPnt 3 550

Programming C++ AP 2 38

Programming Java 2 0

Course OfferingsCourse Offerings

Course Number of Schools

Enrollment

Tech Design Cad/Cam 2 170

Networking- Novell 1 40

Programming Java Script

4 5

Networking NT 3 8

Math RequirementsMath Requirements

C++ - all required Algebra 1AP C++ - all required Algebra 2Visual Basic- 2 required Algebra 1Visual Basic- 1 required 9th grade math

proficiency testNetworking Cisco- 2 required Algebra 1Web Design- 1 required Algebra 1

Curriculum CertificationsCurriculum Certifications

Certifications Supported By Local Area High School/ Career Center

Curriculums

Number of Students Certified

Number of Instructors

Certified

CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate

3 4

CIW Certified Internet Webmaster 0 0

CompTIA A+ 11 3

CompTIA Network+ 0 0

MOUS Microsoft Office User Specialist

0 4

School DifficultiesSchool Difficulties

1. Keeping teachers up to date 2. Hiring Instructors 3. Purchasing Equipment 4. Maintaining Equipment 5. Motivating Students 5. Recruiting Students 6 Low Student Math Levels 7 Developing Curriculum

Help from OSU CommentsHelp from OSU Comments Field Trips, Projects, Guest Speakers,

Guidance, Mentoring of Students and Teachers, Videos

Integration of technology into curriculum Offer tuition paid classes Open course offerings to curriculum areas

other than math- for example business/tech teachers AND remove prerequisite requirements to take technology classes

Technology Training for Teachers We need teachers- not enough money for

teachers to go into public schools

Survey ConclusionsSurvey Conclusions

There seem to be an adequate number of computers but maintaining equipment is a problem

Business driving curriculum as companies with forward looking management teams are assisting schools in delivering instruction

Most of the coursework students are doing is at the Category 2 level. There are a lot of students enrolled

Survey ConclusionsSurvey Conclusions

Math requirements are in place for AP classes but other classes have few math prerequisites

Difficulty for schools to keep teachers up to date and hire competent teachers

While curriculum is in place not very many students are leaving courses certified

Student OrganizationsStudent Organizations

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Business Professionals of America (BPA) Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) Four H JETS- Junior Engineering Technical Society Use clubs to get young women & minorities

involved in computers– GirlTech– www.gURLwURLd.com– National Society of Black Engineers- NSBE Jr.

Programming ContestsProgramming Contests

American Computer Science League- monthly contests

BPA local, statewide and national contests FBLA local, statewide and national contests USA Computing Olympiad- supports pre-

college computing through competitions International Olympiad in Informatics- annual

competition for seniors in secondary schools

RecommendationsRecommendations

Develop long term relationships- post survey Develop summer workshops in concert with

industry for teachers and/or students for Midwest region– Wright State offers NEAS+ National Engineering

Search+ assessment– University of Dayton offers “Women in Engineering

Summer Camp– Baldwin-Wallace offers Biotechnology summer

workshop– University of Akron offers a 3 week workshop in Science

and Engineering

RecommendationsRecommendations

Develop a competition for high school students Work with a broad based group for a definable

teacher certification Work with broad based group to develop

standards for information technology education Work with both type of programs

– Although Ohio State is involved in developing college prep should also assist in developing career education

ResourcesResources American Computer Science League http://www.accsl.org/ Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) http://www.acm.org/ Business Professionals of America http://www.bpa.org/ Building a Foundation for Tomorrow Skill Standards for Information

Technology. Northwest Center for Emerging Technologies. Bellevue Washington. 1997

College Entrance Examination Board. http://www.collegeboard.org/ap/ Education Development Center, Inc. http://www.edc.org/ Future Business Leaders of America http://www.fbla-pbl.org/ Four H- http://www.4-h.org/tech/st4htech Galagan, Patricia A. Mission E-possible The Cisco E-Learning Story.

Training & Development. P46-56 Feb 2001. GirlTECH http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/club/girls.html International Olympiad in Informatics http://olympiad.win.tue.nl/iol/

ResourcesResources

International Society for Technology in Education. http://www.iste.org/ Information Technology Association of America. http://www.itaa.org/ itWORKS.OHIO http://www.itworks-ohio.org/ JETS Junior Engineering Technical Society http://www.jets.org/ Mangini, Rick. Career Ed Dept. (itWorks) State of Ohio. Phone Conversation

Feb 21 2001 National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering National Society for Black Engineers http://www.nsbe.org/ Northwest Center for Emerging Technologies. http://www.nwcet.org/ Strunk, Wayne, Cisco CCNA Instructor, Conversation Feb 7 2001 USA Computing Olympiad http://www.uwp.edu/ Young Engineers- http://www.youngeng.org/

High School/ Career Center High School/ Career Center ResourcesResources

High School/ Career Center Name

Web Page

Beechcroft High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/beech/index.html

Bexley High School www.bexley.k12.oh.us/hs1/index.htm

Briggs High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/brigghs/index.htm

Brookhaven High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/brookhaven/index.html

Canal Winchester High School

www.canalwin.k12.oh.us/hs1.htm

Centennial High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/centennial/index.html

Columbus Alternative High School

www.columbus.k12.oh.us/cahs/index.html

High School/ Career Center High School/ Career Center ResourcesResources

High School/ Career Center Name

Web Page

Delaware JVS South Campus

www.delawarejvs.org

Dublin Coffman High School

198.234.193.26/Coffman/WebPages/Coffman.html

Dublin Scioto High School scioto.dublin.k12/oh.us/

East High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/east/index.html

Eastland Career Center www.eastland.k12.oh.us/career_centers/ecc/index.cfm

Eastmoor Academy High School

www.columbus.k12.oh.us/eastmoor/index.html

Ft Hayes Metropolitan Education Center

www.fthayes.com/index.html

High School/ Career Center High School/ Career Center ResourcesResources

High School/ Career Center Name

Web Page

Gahanna Lincoln High School

www.gahanna.k12.oh.us/schools/glhs/7glhs.htm

Hilliard Darby High School

www.panthers.hilliard.k12.oh.us/

Linden-McKinley High-School

www.columbus.k12.oh.us/linden_mckinley/info.html

Mifflin High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/mifflin_high/index.html

Northeast Career Center www.columbus.k12.oh.us/north_east_cc/

Northland High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/northland/index.html

Northwest Career Center www.columbus.k12.oh.us/northwest.nwccindex.htm

High School/ Career Center High School/ Career Center ResourcesResources

High School/ Career Center Name

Web Page

Pickerington High School www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/buildings/hs/

South High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/south_high/index.html

Southeast Career Center www.columbus.k12.oh.us/southeast/index.html

Thomas Worthington High School

www.worthington.k12.oh.us/schools/thomas/index.html

Upper Arlington High School

www.upper-arlington.k12.oh.us/

Walnut Ridge High School

www.columbus.k12.oh.us/walnut_ridge/index.html

West High School www.columbus.k12.oh.us/west_hs/index.html

High School/ Career Center High School/ Career Center ResourcesResources

High School/ Career Center Name

Web Page

Westerville North High School

http://www.westerville.k12.oh.us/North/wnhs4/index.htm

Westerville South High School

www.westerville.k12.oh.us/south/pages/admin.html

Whetstone High School www.whetstonehs.com/

Worthington Kilbourne High School

www.worthington.k12.oh.us/schools/wkhs/index.html