1. With Special Guest: Marie Vasquez-Brooks
IEBC’s Curriculum to Career Choices (CtCC) with SmartPathways Introducing the Process
April 7, 2017
IEBC Webinar
Brad C. Phillips
Marianne S. Wokeck
John Yopp
With Special Guest: Marie Vasquez-Brooks

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4. What We Will Address Setting the context and then describing the work
Community Colleges and Guided Pathways
Student concerns about career preparation
Employers’ concerns about career readiness
How IEBC-facilitated Curriculum to Career Choices CtCC SmartPathways model supports Guided Pathways:
Meaningful learning outcomes
Aligned with employment-based competencies
How you can engage in this work

5. Guided Pathways 30,000 ft. View
What community colleges are doing well:
Developing new pathways of study
Student support services
What needs more attention:
Making Guided Pathways count toward careers
Increasing student engagement
Aligning SLO’s with employer expected competencies
Our fear:
Sequencing same old courses without addressing program & course learning outcomes aligned with career-necessary KSAs (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities)

6. Student Concerns and Increasing Engagement
How will this help me in the future?
Why are we learning this?

7. Employer Concerns Employers want career preparation in college
to engage and develop a well trained workforce

8. General Education and Faculty Concerns About Pathways
Faculty don’t want to reduce emphasis on general education or “train students for employers”

9. How CtCC SmartPathways Addresses Those Concerns
Emphasizes importance of General Education; focuses on Liberal Arts courses
Links student learning outcomes (SLOs) to the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) students and employers care about
Helps faculty develop contextualized learning outcomes
Makes curriculum more relevant to academic preparation for actual careers

10. What is Curriculum to Career Choices (CtCC) SmartPathways?
A faculty-led process to create smart pathways that support student achievement with appropriate and clear learning outcomes
Includes the Liberal Arts, Humanities and Sciences, focuses on professional and technical areas, or blends the two
Begins with consideration of KSAs required in specific related career areas
Helps colleges scaffold learning outcomes through courses within each pathway
Grounded in the local college academic context

11. CtCC SmartPathways Process Facilitates Collaboration
A collaborative process led by faculty, supported by administration
Links employer-articulated learning expectations to college SLOs
2-yr academic communities
4-yr academic communities
Employer communities

12. IEBC CtCC SmartPathways uses the Occupational Information Network (O
IEBC CtCC SmartPathways uses the Occupational Information Network (O*NET)
to develop pathways
that link academic SLOs
to employer-expected, career-specific learning expectations.

13. O*NET Content Model

14. Allied Health Competency Model
Aligning academic course and program student learning outcomes (SLOs) with O*NET-based competencies and the academic tier of the Allied Health Competency Model

15. Tier 2: Occupation Expected Academic Competencies
Reading
Writing
Mathematics
Science and Technology
Communication listening and speaking
Critical and analytic thinking
Basic computer skills
Information literacy

16. Pathways to Career Choices
Health Professions
Courses sequenced and scaffolded
Transfer or Job
Top Occupations
Business and Entrepreneurship
Courses sequenced and scaffolded
Transfer or Job
Top Occupations
Creative and Communication Arts
Courses sequenced and scaffolded
Transfer or Job
Top Occupations
Science and Technology
Courses sequenced and scaffolded
Transfer or Job
Top Occupations

17. Example in an Allied Health Pathway
Allied Health CtCC SmartPathways
Began with O*NET Allied Heath Competency Model
IEBC determined the appropriate occupations based on regional needs and college program strengths
Collaborative partnership of academic faculty
Odessa Community College
Texas Tech University
Ector County Independent School District

18. Marie Vasquez-Brooks: SmartPathways Outcomes
As a result of the work with IEBC in CtCC
Added an Introduction to health care professions course
Workforce skills discussions still taking place
In discussions with Texas Tech University to develop a capstone seminar to align with workforce standards to address employer-perceived gaps
Nursing and behavioral science faculty are working together to address issues of student preparation for dealing with patients from poverty settings
General education faculty are describing how they continue to connect with workforce chairs
We needed assistance from experts to do this work

19. How Does IEBC’s CtCC SmartPathways Work?
IEBC Pre-Work
IEBC reviews your pathways, your regional transfer universities transfer patterns and the regional job market and helps your college and determines the most frequent occupations within each pathways.
In consultation with your college, IEBC develops an initial list of occupation specific learning expectations to be mapped to your SLOs

20. How Does IEBC’s CtCC SmartPathways Work?
Step 1
Faculty determination and IEBC analysis of occupation-specific learning expectations

21. Identification of alignment, misalignment, or absence of SLOs with O
Identification of alignment, misalignment, or absence of SLOs with O*NET-based career– specific learning expectations

23. Development of strategies for closing the identified gaps

24. Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
In Summary: O*NET As Tool For Bridging Student Learning Outcomes and Occupation-Specific Competencies
O*NET
Competency
Model
Tier 2
Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
Guided Pathways

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Decades-long history of working across the US
Specializes in data use, faculty engagement, and data tools
Based in San Diego with staff located across the US
Member of the California Pathways Advisory Committee
Working with Achieving the Dream since its inception
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