Various projects and services are available to support Illinois
Consortium and assist them in fulfilling their mission to provide
high quality Tech Prep programs. The resources listed below are
designed to meet the diverse needs of local programs by offering
expert leadership and guidance and making accessible various educational
leaders from around the state and nation.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free
to contact the ICCB Tech Prep Leadership Team at (217) 785-0125
or techprepteam@iccb.state.il.us.
ICCB CTE Newsletter
- iForum - Issue I
***PERKINS REAUTHORIZATION***
Carl
D. Perkins Career & Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006
The OCCRL was established in 1989 at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. Their mission is to provide research, leadership,
and service to community college leaders and assist in improving
the quality of vocational-technical education in the Illinois
community college system. The Office is supported by the Illinois
Community College Board, with funding from the Carl D. Perkins
Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1998.
Since its inception, projects of the Office have focused on
community college education policy and practice. Specific research
and development grants have been funded in the areas of technology
transfer, workforce preparation, Tech Prep, school-to-work transition,
work-based learning and educational guarantees.
More detailed information on the Office of Community College
Research and Leadership is available on their website at http://occrl.ed.uiuc.edu/default.asp.
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BACKGROUND
Throughout the 1990s, local tech prep initiatives evolved in
Illinois, heightening the need for more systematic evaluation.
Previous efforts to evaluate Tech Prep by local Consortium, the
Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) and the Illinois State
Board of Education (ISBE) typically addressed distinct aspects
rather than the whole of tech prep. To address this void, development
of the Tech Prep Evaluation System (TPES) began in 1998 through
the work of the Office of Community College Research and Leadership
(OCCRL) at the University of Illinois, the ICCB, ISBE and numerous
local tech prep consortium directors.
COMPONENTS
Key elements of the TPES process include:
- The On-site Review and Improvement Process
- Local strategic planning
- Annual year-end consortium reports
- Monitoring of tech prep enrollments and outcomes
- A state-of-the-art website
GOALS
The On-Site Review and Improvement Process gathers information
through pre-assessment materials, self-assessment by the consortium,
and consortium site visits to gain better understanding of the
consortium's Tech Prep initiative. The goals of this process are
to:
- Establish and Implement Systematic Data Collection
- Gain Understanding of Activities, Characteristics, Outcomes
- Identify Strengths and Weaknesses
- Use Findings for Program Improvement
- Disseminate Findings to Key Stakeholders
More detailed information and evaluation materials are available
at:
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Two online courses have been developed to assist those interested
in learning about and/or implementing Tech Prep initiatives. The
courses are available from the Department of Human Resource Education
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with support
from the Illinois Community College Board.
Those who would most benefit from taking these courses include:
Tech Prep coordinators, instructors in academic and career/technical
education involved with Tech Prep, counselors, employers of Tech
Prep students, consortium board members, and educational administrators
in secondary and postsecondary institutions. Individuals and teams
are encouraged to enroll.
More detailed information on the courses is available at the
OCCRL
website or download the Tech
Prep Online Course Brochure.
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The following materials were produced for the exclusive use
of Illinois Tech Prep Consortium.
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View the ICCB Fiscal Management
Manual
NOTE: Definitions in the ICCB Fiscal Management
Manual are general definitions of expenditures within specific
categories, and are not all necessarily appropriate uses of Tech
Prep funds.
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The following links represent just a small portion of the information
available on the internet to help aid instructors, students, administrators
and parents to better understand, structure and deliver quality
Tech Prep programs.
If you know of other sites that you would like to see listed,
please feel free to contact the ICCB Tech Prep Leadership Team
at (217) 785-0125 or techprepteam@iccb.state.il.us.
- Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) - Agency Homepage
- Illinois
Community College Board (ICCB) - Perkins Homepage
- National Association of Tech Prep Leaders (NATPL)
- Office of Community College Research and Leadership - University of Illinois (OCCRL)
- Illinois
Tech Prep Evaluation System (OCCRL)
- National
Tech Prep Network (NTPN)
- Illinois
Center for Specialized Professional Support (ICSPS)
- Illinois Office of Educational Services (IOES)
- Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS)
- Curriculum Publications Clearinghouse - WIU (CPC)
- United States Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE)
- United States Department of Education - Perkins III and Tech Prep legislation
- Illinois State Board of Education - Homepage (ISBE)
- Illinois
State Board of Education - Office of Career Development
(ISBE)
- Illinois
State Plan for Career and Technical Education
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