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 The
Oakland Unified School District worked with WestEd
to codify “Career Cluster Standards”
in each of 10 career areas:
- Apparel,
Textile and Fashion
- Arts,
Entertainment and Humanities
- Business,
Finance and Marketing
- Education
- Foods
and Hospitality
- Health
and Bioscience
- Information
Technology
- Media
Communication
- Public
Safety and Human Services
- Transportation
Each set of standards provides
the following:
-
The (Functional)
Employability Standards—the
skills and qualities that are foundational to
occupations in that cluster.
-
The Career-Technical
Standards—the general
knowledge and skills that are common across
the multitude of occupations within the cluster.
-
The Discipline-Specific
Academic Standards—the
generic academic skills that support the career
cluster; these have been synthesized from the
district-adopted standards and highlight academic
standards identified as important to the career
cluster by the development teams. Included are
performance indicators that provide examples
of how the general academic skills can be contextualized
by career-specific content.
The above postings are with the
permission of Dr. Allie Whitehurst, Director of
STC and High School Reform for the Oakland Unified
School District.
The
Contra Costa County Office of Education has developed
“Life-Long
Learning” Standards ,
among which are detailed standards for development
of career awareness over the K-12 years. With
permission from Louise Barbee, STC Coordinator
from Contra Costa County, these have also been
posted here.
The SCANS Skills
(Secretaries Commission on Achieving Necessary
Skills) is an example of Cross-Cutting
Functional Domain Standards.
It
includes
competencies
and foundation skills identified by employers.
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