Technology Center of DuPage

NCA Visitation Team

September 22, 1999

Overall comments

Excellent start – first visitThis IS a pilot school….Evidence of a great deal of work

Much of the needed work has already been done… Need to document this in ways that

clearly align with your own goals for instruction Need to document this in ways that NCA

recognizes Need to find ways to streamline

• automate, reduce, duplicative efforts

….work has already been done…

Plans for elaborate school database system

Commitment of staff and administration

1. The Transitions EndorsementStudent centered

• (TCD Students interviewed…)

Focuses on competencies needed for successful transition from stage to stage

Shared responsibility• Home• Community• Places of work and/or further study

Sending schools

2. Articulation

The high school will work with (home schools) to ensure that a greater proportion of students is prepared to be successful

The high school will provide a challenging and developmentally appropriate program to address each student’s needs

Students are to be credentialed in

– i. Employability skills

– ii. Career awareness and exploration

– iii. Academic competence

• Reading/Writing/communication

• Mathematics

• Science reasoning

School improvement plan

Target Goals

Credentialing

SI Goal 1: (HLC) Higher level cognition Problem solving, critical thinking, decision- making

Target Goal 1

Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Decision MakingCredentialing areas:

Employability skills Career awareness and exploration Academic competence

• Reading/Writing/communication

• Mathematics

• Science reasoning

SI Goal 2: (RCC) Reading/comprehension/communication

Target Goal 2

Reading/Comprehension/Communication/Credentialing areas:

Employability skills Career awareness and exploration Academic competence

• Reading/Writing/communication

• Mathematics

• Science reasoning

SI Goal 3: (WE) (Work ethic -- employability ?) All students will display a positive work ethic:

attendance, punctuality; time management…

Target Goal 3

Work Ethic & EmployabilityCredentialing areas:

Employability skills Career awareness and exploration Academic competence

• Reading/Writing/communication

• Mathematics

• Science reasoning

Now...

Career awareness and exploration…

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The nine capacities

The capacities may be thought of as ‘enablers’

SIG Credentialing area (CA)

Communicate data

Provides data links between SIGs and CA

Example: Data on Employability informs performance on SIG 3 (Work ethic, etc)

Intervention plan

Example: Helps identify areas of further training needed to reach SIG 3

Organizational issues

Example: Membership and focus of program area advisory committees to inform relevance of Credentialing criteria

Real Learning

for the

Real World

Mathematics: A pump not a filter….

September 22, 1999