Career Clusters bridge the gap between secondary schools and careers

A lot of information out there explaining the relationship between materials school and careers. Across the country, children, adolescents, teachers and counselors for professional use or Areas of Interest Clusters to explore careers and programs school. There are sixteen (16) Areas of interest or groups:

1. Food Agriculture and Natural Resources
2. Architecture and Construction
3. Art Technology V / & Communication
4. Business, management and administration
5. Education and Training
6. Financing
7. Public Administration and Governance
8. Health Sciences
9. Hospitality And Tourism
10. Human Services
11. Information Technology
12. Public Security Law
13. Manufacturing
14. Marketing Sales and Service
15. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics
16. Transportation, Distribution and Logistics

Federal and State agencies throughout the country have created web sites and resources career cluster. We reviewed three (3) the best state or federal agency websites.

Louisiana Integrated Skills Assessment (LISA)

One of the resources of the entire cluster most unique race Louisiana is the Integrated Skills Assessment (LISA), an Internet program. LISA lets you explore career clusters, careers, skills, training needs, and more. Use of the Lisa, can perform the following tasks:

Rating: Explore the possibilities Career significant use of location work.
I like: the careers based on finding things you like.
Cluster: Career Clusters groups find career.
Search: Search for a job based on knowledge, skills and abilities.
Relevance: Use your current job to assess the knowledge, skills and abilities to identify a new career.
Compare Compare Employment the current use of new potential.
Profile: Use this feature to create a profile of their chosen career.

There are three steps in the LISA program. In step 1, when choose a career group, read the description of the group. When you select a career group in Step 2, you can select a group of career. In each career group, you will see many different races. Finally, Step 3, see more business data, such as:

Descriptions
Academic and training requirements
Passages for pedestrians, for example ONET, DOT, GOE, and other codes
Capabilities
Knowledge
Skills
Tasks
values work
Information on the labor market

Once the detailed information about each profile:

Description
Crosswalk
Capabilities
Knowledge
Skills
Tasks
Working values
Occupational Characteristics Narrative

Louisiana Assessment Integrated Skills (LISA) is an excellent tool for students to make career exploration cluster.

NCE career clusters and the State Resource Groups Career Initiative

The NCE Career Clusters has adapted the information from the Training Initiative Cluster Server State to create a toolbox for education professional development for teachers and counselors. In your toolbox NCE career clusters you can find a career cluster model, posters, brochures, resources, Aa-glance slices PDF, and curricula. Each resource is designed to facilitate the exploration of career clusters.

Career Cluster Resource Booklet

To prepare for a career discussion groups, teachers and counselors for professional use state resources training clusters cluster brochures. Brochures discuss the differences between race groups and careers. The brochure describes the career clusters are groups running in the same industry with similar capabilities and needs education. races are races that are specific for each professional group. The guide covers the following topics:

Overview
Cluster Knowledge and Skills
Camino knowledge and skills
O * NET Crosswalk Report
Validation Studies
Assessment Protocol
Certification Protocol

The booklet is a must-read resource that provides detailed information for each professional group. Each brochure has graphics detailed graphs and tables.

Career cluster model

To give an overview of the career groups, teachers and counselors to use career model in the cluster. The career cluster model simplifies sixteen (16) Career Clusters model. The center of the clusters modeling career NCE focuses on six (6) major groups. The career clusters are coded by color so you can submit six (6) major groups in school activities. The six (6) major groups are:

1. Environment and Agriculture Systems
2. The Business, Marketing and Management
3. Communication and Systems Information
4. Industrial Manufacturing Systems Engineering
5. Health Sciences
6. Human Services and Resources

Here is a summary the relationship between sixteen (16) career clusters and super clusters 6.

1. The environment and agriculture systems
Agriculture, Food, and natural resources (1)
2. Business, Marketing, Management and partners:
Business, Management and Administration (4)
Finance (6)
Accommodation and tourism (9)
Marketing, Sales and Services (14)
3. Communication and Information Systems are:
Art, technology V / & Communication (3)
Information Technology (11)
4. Industrial, manufacturing, systems engineering
Transportation, distribution and logistics (16)
Architecture and Construction (2)
Manufacturing (13)
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (15)
5. Health Science
Science Health (8)
6. Human Resource Services
Education and Training (5)
Government and public administration (7)
Personal Services (10)
Law, Public Safety (12)

The sixteen (16) career clusters systematic adjustment within six (6) major groups.

Career Cluster Brochure

Another race with an excellent group of students from the Career Cluster is Prospectus. The booklet is full of photos show people performing different jobs. With this booklet easy to read, students receive an overview of careers, career clusters and career pathways. Students read about:

What a career cluster?
What career?
What are the subjects of study are important for a career in … career cluster?
What is the condition of education and training for a career … career cluster?
What are the powers necessary for a career in … career cluster?
What are the job prospects for a career in the … career cluster?
What occupations the sample?

Cluster Group Formation

In addition to the cluster model and the prospectus of the race, a student Third Career Cluster Server uses the NCE Career Cluster slices. The NCE Career Cluster Slice identifies specific opportunities within each career technical career. Each slice of cluster is illustrated and designed to explore areas such as:

Cluster Description
Description Senderos
Knowledge Cluster and Skills
Career Field
Preparation for a career …
Examples of Education and Training Program Post-Secondary

Students discover that each route leads to post-secondary options, including:

Learning
Certificates
Licenses
Undergraduate Programs
Degree Undergraduate Programs
Master
PhD Programs
Training Programs

Career clusters Curriculum

In the first years, college students, students use assessments to identify areas of professional interest cluster. With Career Clusters model, brochure, slices, and LISA resources, students explore different careers and opportunities for post-secondary education. Students, teachers, counselors, parents, and then use the Career Clusters Plan of Study of Strategic Planning students work during school. The Career Clusters Plan of Study provides examples of English, mathematics, science, social studies, choice and extra-curricular activities for the following levels:

seventh to eighth years
ninth to tenth years
11 to 12 years
Example of advanced courses for college credit

The website NCE Career Clusters is the gateway to the resources for students of the career cluster.

State Career Clusters, ICE, materials and Lisa are some examples of groups of career resources. Training Cluster Resources have established a link between subjects and careers.

Resources:
Explore career clusters, Texas Commission personnel and resources professional development (TWC / CDR), U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration and the Department of Labor, Louisiana

Education Professional Nebraska, United States Career Clusters, 2005, and NCTEF / NASDCTEc (National Association of State Directors of Vocational Technical Education Consortium) to State Employment clusters, and the National Association of State Directors of Career and Technical Education Consortium

Clusters of his career, Washington, DC: National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium, 2002

About the Author

Dr Mary Askew specializes in career tests, websites, and books for children, teens, adults, teachers, and counselors. Find eye appealing, easy to use, yet comprehensive career resources. Contact Dr. Askew at learning4life@qwest.net or visit http://www.hollandcodes.com.

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