21st Century Life and Career Skills - Standard 9

State Board MeetingAugust 6, 2014

Composition of Standard 9

Current Proposed 9.1 - 21st Century Life Skills

Career Ready Practices

9.2 - Personal Financial Literacy

9.1 - Personal Financial Literacy

9.3 - Career Awareness, Exploration & Preparation

9.2 - Career Awareness, Exploration & Preparation

9.4 - Career & Technical Education

9.3 - Career & Technical Education

Overview of Updates

• Convened content specific work groups for input and discussion

• Reviewed national standards:– Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) published by

the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc)

– National Standards for Financial Literacy published by the Council for Economic Education (CEE)

– ASCA National Standards for Students published by the American School Counselor Association

Responses from Educators

• “Smooth and seamless transition”

• “Directed, but flexible”

• “Practical, usable, more clarity”

• “User friendly, flexible and clear concepts”

• “Teachers may need training in how to address skills

across grade levels”

• “Would help in developing interdisciplinary

connections”

Current 9.1 – 21st Century Life and Careers Skills

• Remove current 9.1 and 66 CPIs

• Adopt the 12 Career Ready Practices of the Common Career Technical Core – Describe skills that students will need

to develop and practice to be career ready

– Implement across grade levels, over time

– Developmentally appropriate – Parallel mathematical practices of CCSS

Current 9.2 – Personal Financial Literacy

• Renumbered 9.2 as 9.1

• Minor revisions to align with the National Standards for Financial Literacy

• Delete some standards; move a few to different grade levels

• Condense standards deemed duplicative by personal financial literacy teachers and financial management practitioners in industry

Personal Financial LiteracyExample of Additional Standard

• 9.1.12.C.8 – Identify the types and characteristics of predatory lending practices (e.g., payday loans, car title loans, high-risk mortgages)

• Rationale:  Stakeholder groups and research indicate a need for individuals in NJ, especially in low-to-moderate income communities, to be aware of ways in which they are targeted by predatory lending practices. This is especially prevalent in communities with immigrants.

Current 9.3 – Career Awareness, Exploration, and Preparation

• Renumbered 9.3 as 9.2

• Reduce the number of standards at the middle school and high school levels by synthesizing indicators into succinct overarching standards

• Align to the ASCA National Standards for Students

• Provide educators more flexibility in helping students achieve mastery; less prescriptive

Current 9.4 – Career and Technical Education (CTE)

• Replace 9.4 with the Common Career Technical Core (CCTC) for CTE programs and renumber as 9.3

– Developed by 44 States

– Informed by Business & Industry

– Sample performance indicators in separate document

Alignment Report

• First-ever analysis of state-approved standards for secondary and postsecondary CTE

• Compared state-approved standards to CCTC

• Indicated that NJ is 97-100% aligned in all Career Clusters®

The Common Career Technical Core Alignment Study: State of New Jersey

National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium

CCTC and Standard 9.4

Currently, 1,923 Career Cluster®/Pathway-levelCPIs in Standard 9.4

617 Career Cluster®/Pathway-level CCTCstandards

Benefits

• Enhance Project-Based Learning (PBL)/ Interdisciplinary Approaches

• Support the implementation of the Common Core State Standards

• Provide opportunities for Experiential Learning

Next Steps

• Development of rubrics for student and teacher

reflection for Career Ready Practices

• Samples of implementation across grade levels

• Resources on Website

• Continue the development of Model CTE Programs

• Implementation – September 2015

– CTE already aligned

Questions