CTE resources for curriculum Development

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Define: Identify the work people do.

Through skills standards and competency development that includes key skills and knowledge lined to professional/work roles.

• Skill Standards Development — identify, verify, validate, and documenting what individuals need to know and be able to do to effectively perform functional roles associated within business processes
• Skill Standards Contextualization — using validated skill standards to identify, verify, validate, and document functional role profiles associated with occupational and/or industry clusters
• PODS (Process Oriented Data Structure) Development — using legacy content, performance, and skill standards to build an integrated process framework for curriculum content and assessment development

Measure: Assess what people know.

Through development and implementation for outcome driven standards-based assessments and certifications.

• Item Bank Development, Delivery, and Maintenance — develop, validate, deliver, and maintain standards-based items and assessments for low and high-stakes purposes.
• Alignment Analysis — analyze curriculum content and assessments to provide stakeholders information about the extent to which they are aligned with industry skill standards.
• Program Assessment — use “theory of change” approach to gauge efficiency, effectiveness, and impact of human capital practices and procedures and education, training, and professional development programs.

Optimize: Apply unique processes to maximize performance.

Though implementation of skill standards into workforce development strategies, curriculum, learning solutions, learning outcomes, certification, and program evaluation to optimize workforce performance.

• Instructional Design — analyze and build organizational capacity to design, develop, and implement standards-based curriculum framework, objectives, and goals, based on proven adult learning theories.
• Program Design — analyze and build organizational capacity to develop policies and procedures that govern the design, development, and implementation of assessment-based education, training, and/or professional development programs.
• Certification Development — create the architecture, including skills, performance criteria, and assessment protocol to certify workers to ensure their competence in a specific area.