Moped Safety Class March 15

• See Mr Dalton for pre registration details.

LeMars Community High School

Technology Academy

Framing for the Future:Career Pathways Ensure All Students Plan for their Future

Shift in Skills

1970’s2010

High Skills

Low Skills

By 2008, women will make up almost 50% of the workforce.

Women – 48%Men – 52%

US Dept. of Labor, Jan. US Dept. of Labor, Jan. 20052005

Why Career Planning is Important!

Your career will influence nearly every aspect of your life!

• Work• Income• Location• Friends• Family

• Family• Leisure activities• Personal

satisfaction• Contribution to

society

How many times can a student who has just graduated from high school plan to change jobs?

10-15 times by 201010-15 times by 2010

Career Pathways provide:

• Students with a foundation and framework to help them plan for registration

• Students with an understanding as to why they need to take certain courses

• Students with information to plan

• Students, teachers, and parents with a critical connection

Career Pathways provide:

Rec ipe For Career Success

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The Skills You Will Need:The Skills You Will Need:•Computer literacyComputer literacy

•Higher science, math, & contextual Higher science, math, & contextual reading skillsreading skills

•Team work is criticalTeam work is critical

•Continual learning – lifelong learningContinual learning – lifelong learning

•Problem-solving & Problem-solving & critical thinking skillscritical thinking skills

•Technical reading & Technical reading & writing skillswriting skills

Career Pathways: Educating All Students for Their Futures!

Foundational Knowledge and Skills for All Students in All Career Clusters/Pathways

Academic Foundation Communication Systems Employability SkillsAcademic Foundation Communication Systems Employability Skills

Legal Responsibilities Safety Practices Ethics Technical SkillsLegal Responsibilities Safety Practices Ethics Technical Skills

Information Technology Applications Health Maintenance PracticesInformation Technology Applications Health Maintenance Practices

PreK-5PreK-5thth Grade Grade

Intro to 16 Intro to 16 Career ClustersCareer Clusters

Classroom SpeakersClassroom Speakers

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Career FairsCareer Fairs

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Take as many gen ed Take as many gen ed requirements and requirements and electives as possibleelectives as possible, , allowing for advanced allowing for advanced academic and career academic and career courses later.courses later.

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Identification of 2 year and 4 year institutions that provided continuing education and training in those pathways.

Students have opportunities for internships and work-based learning experiences.

Complete a senior project to demonstrate skills across curriculum.

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Community Community College and/or College and/or

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Move seamlessly into Move seamlessly into further education and further education and training with advanced training with advanced standing.standing.

Know more definitely Know more definitely what focus their career what focus their career preparation will be in preparation will be in their postsecondary their postsecondary education and training.education and training.

Continue to improve in Continue to improve in their foundational their foundational knowledge and skills, knowledge and skills, able to compete in the able to compete in the global economy and global economy and market.market.

Be able to transition to a Be able to transition to a number of career number of career pathways as their pathways as their employment needs employment needs change.change.

Be able to access training Be able to access training for life-long learning to for life-long learning to stay competitive in the stay competitive in the global market and current global market and current with technology.with technology.

Assess student preparedness (academic & career).

Assess student preparedness (academic & career).

Identify & meet student needs.

Identify & meet student needs.

Successful Transition

• 100 students begin high school at 9th grade

• 68 of these students graduate from high school

• 40 of these students start college• 27 leave after sophomore year• 18 graduate

31 % leave with 0 credits earnedEducation Weekly, March 2005

LCHS Career Pathways

• Design Engineer • Computer Integrated

Manufacturing (CIM)• Technician

Vision

• Career preparation in three pathways

• Industry standard hardware and software

• Partnership between school, business + industry, and community college

Technician

• Tech Mods• A+ Certification• Mechanical Drawing• Designer’s Choice• Manufacturing• Electronics• Internship/

Apprenticeship

Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)

• Tech Mods• Mechanical

Drawing• Pro Design• Designer Choice• Manufacturing• Web Design• Internship

Design Engineer

• Tech Mods• Mechanical Drawing• Intro to AutoCAD• Intro to Architectural

Design• Production Design and

Engineering• Designers Choice• Web Design• Internship/Apprenticeship

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Tech Modules

• Tech Mods provides a career survey course for students and is strongly recommended at the 9th or 10th grade

Value of Technology modules

• Provides students with a wide range of materials and processes used in many careers.

• Provides the students with hands on real world learning.

• Recommended for 9th and 10th graders but can be taken anytime.

Mechanical Drawing College Credit (Mr Wichers)

• Highly recommended for the 9 or 10th grade.

• Take it early so you can get other Tech courses such as Intro to AutoCAD, Intro to Arch Desktop, Production Design and Engineering, Manufacturing Tech,Web Design, and Woods.

Intro to AutoCAD

• College credit• Designing 2d Mechanical drawing• Majority of class is spent with hands

on training in creating 2d object, setting up layers, object snap, modifying objects, plotting drawings in 2 d

• Fun class

Careers in Intro to AutoCAD

• Mechanical Engineering• Electrical Engineering• Industrial Design• Drafting Designer• Tool Designer• Civil Engineering• Income 40,000 and up

Intro to Architectural DesignCollege Credit Pre-requisite:Intro to AutoCAD

• 3d Object based design course for Residential and commercial use

• Fun, challenging and high income careers

• Projects include designing houses and commercial structures

Architectural Design Elements

• Floor and Foundation plans

• Front and Side elevation

• Sectional• Kitchen Details• Commercial

structures

Careers in Intro to Arch Design

• Architects• Industrial Design• Interior Design• Landscape Design• Commercial Structures • Construction • Drafting Designer• Civil Engineering• Others (too many to list)• Income 40,000 and up

Designer Choice

• New offering with no pre-requiste and no book. Offered 10th thru 12th grade.

• Students choose any combination of these areas:– Revit (House and commercial structures)– 3d Civil (Land Parcels development and

related fields of study)– Inventor (3d solid and animation)

One Designers Choice project

Web DesignRecommended 10-12th grade

Web Design (College Credit)

• Highly recommended for college bound students.

• Helps student master using the internet

• Helps facilitate the gathering of useful resources on the internet.

Web Design Projects

• Create and maintain the LCHS school web site.

• Create a commercial web site (student choice)

• Use industrial state of the art Web Developing software– Dreamweaver– Flash– Fireworks

Web Projects

• Book Exercises• Forms• Flash

• Video Highlights

• LCHS Project

Fireworks Projects

More Fireworks

Photoshop Collages/Banners

3D Cool Imaging

Careers in Web Design

• Entrepreneurship• Web Developer• Print and Web Developer• E-Business manager• Information Systems Career• Many careers to numerous to mention

that involve creative and technological careers

• Income 40,000 and up

Pro Design and EngineeringRecommended 10-12th grade

Pro Design Project

• Key Points– Sketching– Create

Features– Constraints– 2D and 3D

Drawings– Creating

Balloon Part Lists

– Creating Presentations

Pro Design Teaming Weight Machine Project

• Team 1– Craig– Eric– Ryan

• Key Points of Project– Teaming– Network

Linking and Sharing

Careers in Production Design and Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering• Electrical Engineering• Industrial Design• Drafting Designer• Tool Designer• Civil Engineering• Income 40,000 and up

Production Design and Engineering

• Powerful 3d design principles will be explored.

• Very high student interest in this class, sign up early in your process and take it 11th or 12 the grade year.

• Get ready to have a blast designing-fun class.

• Supply-Demand. Engineers are in HIGH DEMAND.

Manufacturing Technologies(College)Pre-requisite:Pro Design

• More Design principles• College level units of study in Tech World

Curriculum (4 weeks each):– CNC Lathe and Mill– Mechanical Systems (Mechanism/Hydraulic)– Automation (Robotics, Programming, Sensors– Electronics (in the near future hopefully)

• Design and construct hydraulic robot arm for competition

• Manufacturing concepts with real world learning will

be covered.

Careers in Manufacturing

• Mechanical Engineering• Electrical Engineering• Industrial Design• Programmer, Line Setup.• Maintenance operator• CNC operator• Manufacturing careers are 21 percent of

jobs in Iowa.• Income 40,000 and up

Win for the Students

• Opportunity for real life training in industry standard technology applications

• Preparation for either entry level employment or jump start on post-secondary training

• Training in a career field where jobs currently exist

• Students become familiar with WITCC and it’s technology offerings