1. Lesson Plan Career and Technical Education Follow-up Survey

2. Students: We need your help with an important activity!
What?
Student Follow-up Survey

3. What Questions will be Asked on the Survey?
Employment Status
Skills Attainment
Job Satisfaction
Educational Status
Quality of High School Education
Job and Employer Information

4. Who Will Be Included in the Survey?
All students who “complete” a Career and Technical Education Program.
AND
Who graduated in the previous year.
Note: Seniors who graduate this year will be followed up in 2010.

5. Why is the Follow-up Being Conducted?
Just as businesses survey their customers to find out how they feel about the quality of their products and services, we need your input to find out how well we prepared you for the next step in life . . .
College (Community College, 4-Year)
Technical Training/Apprenticeship Program
Employment
Military
The input you provide will help us to improve our programs for future students.

6. When will the Survey be Conducted?
Timelines
March-June 2010
School division conducts pre-survey activities (automated phone call, , postcards to former students who graduated in June of the previous year).
Personal phone call to former students who have not responded to the survey online.
Fall 2010
Follow-up employers with permission from former students.

7. How will the Survey be Conducted?
“On-Line” Survey (Hint: no phone call will be made to students who reply online)
Phone Survey

8. How will the Information Collected on the Survey be Used?
Only responses to questions will be analyzed (frequency of responses/percentages)--names and addresses of students will not be reported.
Responses will be tallied and reported by:
School Division
School
Program Area
Demographic Information

9. Terminology Career and Technical Education Programs Agriculture
Business Education
Health Occupations
Marketing Education
Technology Education
Trade and Industrial Education
Family and Consumer Science

10. Terminology: Programs continued
Project Lead the Way (Engineering)
Criminal Justice
T.V. Production
Cosmetology
Auto mechanics
Welding
CISCO (IT Networking)

11. Terminology Program Completer
All students should know what courses need to be successfully completed for their program. If you don’t, ask your instructor or guidance counselor.
(Generally a completer has taken at least 2 related courses within a Career and Technical Education program)

12. Activities Have students work in groups Interview fellow students
Complete a survey form
Discuss ways to increase responses to survey.
Review personal information in school database for accuracy. Pay particular attention to phone number and address.

13. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT!