Career Clusters, a bridge between education and career planning

Since 1960, professional cluster resources have been used as the exploration and career planning tools in schools, communities and organizations around the country. Career Clusters is a system that matches education and career planning.

Step one: Identifying Career Cluster Interest Areas

Study groups are groups of occupations and allied industries. When teachers, counselors and parents work with teens, college students and adults, the first step is to complete the evaluation of stroke cluster. The assessment identifies the areas of greatest career cluster. career assessments show teens, college students, adults and rankings of one of the Interests following 16 areas or clusters:

1. Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
2. Architecture and Construction
3. Arts, Technology V / Y Communication
4. Business, Management and Administration
5. Education and training
6. Finance
7. Government and Administration Public
8. Health Sciences
9. Hospitality and Tourism
10. Human Services
11. Information Technology
12. Law, Public Safety and Security
13. Manufacturing
14. Marketing, Sales and Service
15. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
16. Transportation, Distribution and Logistics

Step 2: Exploration of career clusters and related careers

After pinpointing the highest career groups, adolescents, college students, adults and explore different careers and create education plans. Career tools cluster used in the career and educational planning include:

LISA: A comprehensive career cluster database
Models
Brochures
Pathways
High school curriculum
Interest and Skills Areas
Pedestrian crossings

After completing a career cluster assessment, adolescents, college students and adults look at the websites, career models, brochures, itineraries, and plans for high school. One of the most unique global professional resources is the Louisiana Integrated Cluster Skills Assessment (LISA), an Internet program. LISA lets you explore career clusters, occupations, skills, training needs, and more. There are three steps in the LISA program:

STEP 1: Click here to select a career cluster,
STEP 2: Click here to select a study group
STEP 3: Explore occupations in this Career Group

In Step 1, choosing a career group, you will see a description of the group. When select a career group in Step 2, you see different careers. Finally, in step 3, you see a lot of information:

Descriptions
Education requirements and training
Pedestrian crossings, for example ONET, DOT, GOE, and other codes
Skills
Knowledge
Skills
Tasks
Vouchers work
Labor Market Information

Although LISA is an impressive program in the classroom or workshop settings, you need printed materials. When printed material is used, the career model is the best place to start. The models provide an excellent overview list of definitions of cluster, careers sample, the tracks, the knowledge and skills. Visual models show career clusters, cluster subgroups, and related careers. The models are an excellent way to introduce career clusters.

For the presentations, workshops and group discussions, career cluster brochures provide additional information. Adults and adolescents read about the different careers that are available in each professional group. Teachers, counselors and parents use the brochures to solidify and young adults' potential career or educational decisions. The brochures cover topics such as:

Definition of career clusters
Racing
Training routes
Employment prospects
Skills
Credentials

Teachers, counselors and parents use career pathways for more detailed information. The road toward the degree are subgroups or areas of concentration in groups of races. Each path contains career groups. Professional groups have similar academic skills, technical skills, educational requirements and training requirements. career pathways are required curricula of secondary education scheme post secondary courses and related careers. The career pathways are essential tools that teachers, counselors, parents and other adults used to give advice on planning education.

Various high performance web sites Curriculum School. These curricula are required, elective, and suggested courses for each grade level. The school plans also match the career clusters to related careers and career post-secondary options. Teachers, counselors and parents are that these school plans are guides for the selection of appropriate high school courses to match potential careers. Beyond high school, Utah System of Higher Education has created a Guide to Residence. Parents, teachers and counselors can use the guide to match university certificates and qualifications.

Additional resources for counselors and teachers

For curriculum planning and educational programs are detailed knowledge and skills and crosswalks Charts Cluster Server. The knowledge and skills to expand the information in the career cluster model. For each of the knowledge and skill area, there are elements of performance and measurement criteria. Crosswalks show the relationships between career clusters and other career models:

career clusters build a bridge between education and career planning. The different types of career cluster resources are available: videos, Web sites website, brochures, activity sheets and books. Teachers, counselors, and parents use career resources cluster to successfully complete career and educational planning.

Resources:

American racing careers, Career Communications, 6701 W. 64th St., Overland, KS 66202, 800-669-7795

Click click on your career, Illinois Department of Employment Security, 33 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60603, (312) 793-5700

CIP Code Index by Cluster race Adult and Postsecondary CTE Division Bureau of Career and Technical Education, 333 Market Street, Harrisburg, PA 17 126, (717) 772-0814

Cluster and videos Career, Career-stop, USA Department of Labor, Frances Perkins Building, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20210, 866-4-USA-DOL

College Major Guide Utah System for Higher Education, the Board of Regents of the building, Gateway, 60 South 400 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84101-1284, (801) 321-7100

Job Search (video), iSeek Solutions, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, Wells Fargo Place, 30 E. 7th St., Suite 350, St. Paul, MN 55101-7804

High School Curriculum, Department of Education of New Hampshire, 101 Pleasant Street
Concord, NH 03301-3860, (603) 271-3494
Introduction to career clusters, academic training, Glencoe / McGraw-Hill, PO Box 543
Blacklick, OH 43004-0544,

Louisiana Assessment Skills Integrated (LISA), customized version of Oscar Internet, a product of Texas Workforce Commission / Career Development Resources TWC / CDR, Austin, TX 78 753

Maryland racing groups, Department of Education of the State of Maryland 200 West Baltimore Street Baltimore, MD 21201,

Rhodes Island groups of races, Rhode Network Island Resources Training, 1511 Pontiac Avenue, Cranston, RI 02 920, 401-462-8790

Clusters Training School, Connecticut, Department of Labor Job Bank, 645 South Main Street, Middletown, CT 06 457, (860) 754-5000

Formation of clusters States (SCCI), 1500 W. Seventh Avenue, Stillwater, OK 74 074
Training Plans route, Career Cluster, Knowledge and Skills Charts

Marcos VTECS Cluster, 1866 VTECS southbound lane, Decatur, GA 30033,404-679-4501 ext 543

What are career clusters? Outlook Training System, New Mexico Career Resource Network, TECHNICAL AND CAREER OFFICE PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION (CTWEB), Education Building, 300 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe, NM 87501, (505) 827-6512

About the Author

Dr Mary Askew specializes in career tests, websites, and books for students. Students need eye appealing, easy to use, yet comprehensive career resources. Find out how students can reach their career potentials at http://www.hollandcodes.com. Contact Dr. Askew at learning4life@qwest.net.

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