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CAREER PREPARATION
THE NEW FRONTIER IN ADULT EDUCATION
Presenter: Errick L. Baldwin
Co-Presenters: Hunter Boyd
Vanessa McClain
Thursday, March 5, 2015
LCTCS 2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1

ABOUT THE
PRESENTERS
ERRICK L. BALDWIN, BS, M.Div
Lead Instructor
HUNTER BOYD, BA, MA, PhD in progress
Instructor
VANESSA MCCLAIN, AA, BA in progress
ParaEducator
FACULTY AT NORTHSHORE
TECHNICAL COMMUNITY
COLLEGE’S ADULT ED/ WORK
READY U – HAMMOND, LA.
EACH INSTRUCTOR HAS
PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT IN
SETTINGS OTHER THAN
ADULT EDUCATION
THIS TEAM FORMED IN THE
FALL OF 2014.

One Premise: Four Questions
1. What is the purpose of Adult Education?
2. What outcomes would we like to see as Adult Education professionals?
3. How can we aid adult learners in discerning viable career pathways?
4. Are students sufficiently prepared to enter post secondary training or the
workforce after completing our program?

Session Goals :
In our time together, we want to accomplish four (4) major goals
I. Inform: What do we need to know?
II. Reflect: How have our previous experiences shaped our perspectives?
III. Dialogue: An opportunity to engage in conversations regarding the
problems and possibilities.
IV. Construct: Generating ideas on possible solutions to meet overall goals

Session Outline:
I. The Adult Educator Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
II. College and Career Readiness: The New Standards
III. Philosophy, Practice and Praxis: The Evolving Adult Educator
IV. Integrating College and Career Readiness Content into Existing Adult
Education Courses of Study
V. Practicums: Contextualized Considerations

THE ADULT EDUCATOR
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

The Adult Educator:
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
The historical role of the Adult Educator has been to prioritize
Skills Remediation
What does skills remediation look like within your learning organization?
What methods have you implemented to provide skills remediation?
Skills Development
What is the difference between skills development and skills
remediation?
What methods and approaches have you used to develop skills in adult
learners?

The Adult Educator:
Adult Educators are transitioning into educational professionals who face two
central challenges:
1. Increased Academic Rigor in High School Equivalency Exams
2. Emerging Focus on Providing Relevant Career Preparation For Adult
Learners

The Adult Educator:
Adult Educators are transitioning into educational professionals who face two central
challenges:
1. Increased Academic Rigor in High School Equivalency Exams
“The cognitive complexity of the HiSet is built on Webb’s Depth of Knowledge rather
than Bloom’s Taxonomy. The HiSet features three of Webb’s Depth of Knowledge
criteria including Essential Competencies, Conceptual Understanding and Extended
Reasoning. “ (source ETS Cognitive Complexity of the HiSet.)

The Adult Educator:
Adult Educators are transitioning into educational professionals who face two
central challenges:
2. Emerging Focus on Providing Relevant Career Preparation For Adult
Learners
College and Career Readiness Standards are intentional efforts to establish
what adult learners need to know for success in Careers or College.

College and Career
Readiness
THE NEW STANDARDS

College and Career Readiness:
The New Standards
Conversations about Standards have sent shockwaves through the K-12
environment, and are also having an impact on Adult Education outcomes and
targets.
The central catalyst is well known- The Common Core.
As a response to the Common Core, the College and Career Readiness
Standards were developed and applied in the context of Adult Education.

The New Standards
College and Career Readiness (or CCR) Standards cover the core areas of
Reading
Ten Anchor Standards
Math
 Eight Standards for Mathematical Practice
Implemented Across Levels of Increasing Difficult (K-1 Through High School)
Writing
Nine Anchor Standards
Language
Six Anchor Standards
Speaking and Listening
Six Anchor Standards

The New Standards: Literacy Spotlight
Can you make connections with how this standard might apply to career preparation?
Does this standard seem applicable to Career Readiness?

The New Standards
The Standards in Full:
Check out: http://lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/CCRStandardsAdultEd.pdf

Philosophy, Practice and
Praxis
THE EVOLVING ADULT EDUCATOR

Philosophy, Practice and Praxis:
The Evolving Adult Educator
It is clear that the educational landscape is changing across the nation and
across the world.
As adult educators, we should work toward remaining open and flexible to
opportunities for our own growth and development to better equip adult
learners and nurture positive student outcomes.
Our best option………..
professional development as a pathway toward personal evolution

Source: Compiled by
Lindy McKeown
www.educatorstechnology.com
The Three Major Learning
Approaches in Adult Education.

Philosophy:
What is your approach to learning and teaching?
Where do you see yourself represented in your interactions with students/
learners ?
How would your students/ learners describe your approach?

Practice:
The work of an Adult Educator is described under the titles of
 Teacher
 Instructor
 (How do your students/ learners refer to you?)
Our work is a Practice Based Discipline. It is worthwhile to consider why we do
what we do in our adult education settings.

Practice:
What are the Intended Practices which are in your tool kit as an Adult
Educator?
What are the Actual Practices you frequently use in the classroom setting or
otherwise?
Is there a difference between the Intended and Actual Practices, if so why?

Practice:
Adult Education Program and Instructional Models:
Individualized Group Instruction
Managed Enrollment
Drop-In
Hybrid models
What model does your program use?
How effective is your model in preparing adult learners for college and career
readiness?

Praxis:
Are we flexible enough to
employ all three approaches?
Which situations fit a tiered
approach to adult learning?
How would the tiered
approach aid in developing
career readiness?
Source: Blaschke, Lisa Marie, “Heutagogy and Lifelong
Learning”, IRRODL, Jan. 2012.

Integrating College and
Career Readiness
Content
IDEAS FOR EXISTING PROGRAMS

Building Blocks of Emerging College Preparation in Adult Ed
Career
Prep
Industry
Projections
and Outlook
Career
Inventory &
Assessment
Foundational
Skills &
Strengths
Soft Skills

Integrating CCR Content
Now, that we’ve explored our approaches, let’s get really practical and discuss
possibilities for
Implementing College and Career Readiness Materials into your class room/
program.
Remember, developing a Career Preparation program is about generating
ideas rather than shutting down ideas.

Idea 1:
Connect your own professional experiences with your students’ career goals.
Idea 2:
Focus on a CCR Standard, and make instructional connections with College Preparation as
extended exercises.
Idea 3:
Provide opportunities for collaborative learning for students with similar interests & career
goals

Idea 4*
Supplement existing materials with low to no cost web materials to be used in a classroom setting.
Idea 5
Connect with your program graduates and completers, faculty and industry partners to interface
with your class.
Idea 6:
Have students study economic concepts, labor markets, and then use the newspaper or the
Internet to explore overall job trends, and outlook of his/her career pathway.

SPOTLIGHT: IDEA 4
We found three
types of
Web based
resources for
Career Preparation
Government
Based Job &
Career Sites
Open Learning
Initiatives
State Depts.
of Education

State Departments of
Education
• Louisiana Believes
• Engage NY
Government Based
Job and Career
Resources
• mynextmove.org
• Louisiana Careers
• Career Planning
Guide
Open Learning
Platforms
• Student Lingo
• Learning Express 3.0
• Coursera, EdX,

Practicums:
CONTEXTUALIZED CONSIDERATIONS

Practicums:
Contextualized Considerations
The purpose of the practicum is to provide an opportunity for attendees to
actively synthesize the information presented today with previous teaching
experiences and the knowledge of their own educational setting to design,
strategize and/or organize a standards-based approach with the goal of career
preparation.

Practicums:
Directions:
Participants will work with persons who currently use the same Adult Educational models.
In groups of no more than four people, choose one CCR standard, and two web based
resources to create a lesson plan, scope and sequence or a student resource developing
Career based skills. See the standards at
http://lincs.ed.gov/publications/pdf/CCRStandardsAdultEd.pdf
When creating the student resource, keep in mind the local context in which you teach.

Practicums:
Group Presentations

Career Preparation:
The New Frontier in Adult Education
Questions and Discussion?

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