1. Integrating Education and Training….and Still Teach.
Sara Z. Gutting
Adult Education Consultant

2. Internet &
Resources
Questions
Ideas

3. Welcome
1) I am a teacher first and foremost 2)

4. When have you accepted a role or project for which you haven’t been completely trained?
What was the biggest challenge of that role or project?

5. What was the “aha” moment in that role or project?

6. Integrated Education and Training
List one thing you know about IET.
List one thing you would like to know more about.
List one thing you are already doing in your program to implement any portion of IET.
Sometimes its hard to see beyond the big picture and look deeper at the details.

8. So What IS IET?

9. What Is IET?
“…a service approach that provides adult education and literacy activities concurrently and contextually with workforce preparation activities and workforce training for a specific occupation or occupational cluster for the purpose of educational and career advancement” (Final WIOA regulations at 34 CFR §463.35).

10. It is only called IET when all three are happening at the same time.
Three Main Parts
Adult Education and Literacy
Workforce Education
Workforce Training
It is only called IET when all three are happening at the same time.

11. Integrated Education and Training
“…a service approach that provides adult education and literacy activities concurrently and contextually with workforce preparation activities and workforce training for a specific occupation or occupational cluster for the purpose of educational and career advancement” (Final WIOA regulations at 34 CFR §463.35).

12. Adult Education and Literacy
“…programs, activities, and services that include: (a) adult education, (b) literacy, (c) workplace adult education and literacy activities, (d) family literacy activities, (e) English language acquisition activities, (f) integrated English literacy and civics education, (g) workforce preparation activities, or (h) integrated education and training” (34 CFR §463.30).

13. Workforce Preparation
“Activities, programs, or services designed to help an individual acquire a combination of basic academic skills, critical thinking skills, digital literacy skills, and self-management skills, including competencies in: (a) utilizing resources; (b) using information; (c) working with others; (d) understanding systems; (e) skills necessary for successful transition into and completion of postsecondary education or training, or employment; and (f) other employability skills…” (34 CFR §463.34).

14. Workforce Training (i) occupational skill training…;
“may include
(i) occupational skill training…;
(ii) on-the-job training;
(iii) incumbent worker training…; (iv) programs that combine workplace training with related instruction…:
(v) training programs operated by the private sector;
(vi) skill upgrading and retraining; (vii) entrepreneurial training;
(viii) transitional jobs…;
(ix) job readiness training provided in combination with services…(i) through (viii);
(x) adult education and literacy activities, including activities of English language acquisition and integrated education and training programs, provided concurrently or in combination with services described in any of clauses (i) through (vii); and
(xi) customized training conducted with a commitment by an employer or group of employers to employ an individual upon successful completion of the training.” (WIOA Section 134(c) (3) (D), P.L

15. Adult Education and Literacy
College and Career Readiness Standards
8 Math Practices
Instructional Shift
Incorporating these into our existing curriculum

16. Math Practices MP1 – Make sense of problems/persevere in solving.
MP2 – Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
MP 3 – Construct viable arguments/critique reasoning of others.
MP4 – Model with mathematics.
MP5 – Use tools appropriately and strategically.
MP6 – Attend to precision.
MP7 – Look for and make use of structure.
MP8 – Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

17. Instructional Shifts Evidence Coherence Rigor Knowledge Complexity
Focus

18. Workplace Essential Skills
Reading: understanding materials written in sentences or paragraphs.
Document Use: using and understanding labels, graphs, signs and other materials.
Numeracy: using and understanding numbers.
Writing: writing text or typing on a computer.
Oral Communication: using speech to share thoughts and information.
Working with Others: interacting with others to complete tasks.
Thinking: reviewing information to make decisions.
Computer Use: using computers and other technical tools.
Continuous Learning: participating in an ongoing process of gaining skills and knowledge.

19. You Are Already Awesome
Which of these do you already do?
Which ones they have already had training on?
Which ones need more work?

20. Where Do We Start? Know you students. Play to their strengths.
What are their career/job interests?
Play to their strengths.
Integrate training ideas and concepts that they can relate to.
Help create their path.
Plant the seed
Create Career Clusters

21. Integrating Education and Training
Be Prepared
Create lessons, activities, and homework that integrate employment skills and career pathways or clusters.
Be Structured
Have a Plan
6 Step Lesson Plan
Warm-ups and Introductions
Try incorporating employment/soft skills into your warm-ups and introductions
Be Flexible
Always be ready to meet the needs of the students

22. The more structured we are the more flexible we can be.
So how do we do all of this?

23. 6 Simple Steps to Success
WARM – UP
INTRODUCTION
PRESENTATION
PRACTICE
EVALUATION
APPLICATION
By integrating some sort of lesson plan concept you can easily integrate employment and training skills into a piece of this outline.

24. Warm-Ups Word Search Puzzles Math Brain Teasers and Story Problems
That are job oriented—make them up on puzzlemaker.com
Math Brain Teasers and Story Problems
Newspaper articles, work related story problems
Current Events
Business Journals have great graphs
Writing activity
Practice rewriting basic sentences or summarizing

25. Warm-Ups Word Search Puzzles Math Brain Teasers and Story Problems
That are job oriented—make them up on puzzlemaker.com
Math Brain Teasers and Story Problems
Newspaper articles, work related story problems
Current Events
Business Journals have great graphs
Writing activity
Quote of the Day

26. In what ways do you or could you integrate workplace skills into your warm-ups in your classroom?
Current events, globe game. Or warm up for writing of pros and cons. In my hand I have a job that pays $100,000. How many of you would like this job. What if I told you you would have to move out of state? What if I told you it was seasonal and you only worked about 4 months out of the year? But you would have to work 6-7 days a week during that time with no vacation time. Would you like it?

27. Introduction How will you introduce your topic?
What is your “hook”?
What are the career or employment skills relates to this subject?
Is there a way to integrate workplace skills or career clusters into the introduction of the subject?

28. The Power of Words

29. Let’s Practice
Have students write down a sentence that describes their personality.
Example:
Sentence: I have a good sense of humor.
Rewrite: I can always see the positive in any
situation and, often times, when appropriate, I find the humor in it.
Its about asking the right question

30. Presentation

31. Presentation
How will I present the information that includes career clusters and/or workplace skills?
How will I make this interactive?
What materials are out there to help support my teaching?

32. Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer’s problems.
~Mark Cook, Kodak

33. Quadratic Formula
What does the quadratic formula have to do with employment training?

34. Quadratic Formula Teaches Structure Steps and Sequence
Organize Thoughts and information
Why is this important for workplace skills?
Where might we use these types of skills?

35. What does it teach… Maps, Graphs, and Charts Photosynthesis
Reading Literature
Integers

36. Evaluation How will you evaluate what they know?
Are they able to transfer the knowledge?
Are you asking them workplace questions to help transfer the knowledge?
Are you asking the right questions?
Webb’s DOK 2 and 3
How will you evaluate what they know.

37. Knowledge does not equal understanding

38. Application
An activity that requires students to apply new knowledge to their own lives, employment or career pathway.

39. Let’s Practice

40. Learning Stations Take a look at the topic on your table.
What type of warm-up or introduction would you use to help integrate workplace essential skills into this topic?
What activity could you incorporate to help apply this to work or a career pathway.

41. 6 Simple Steps to Success
WARM – UP
INTRODUCTION
PRESENTATION
PRACTICE
EVALUATION
APPLICATION

42. Name one feature or strategy in this workshop that you will use in heling your teachers integrate education and training in their classrooms.

43. ~Captain Kirk to Spock—Star Trek the original series
If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial…doesn’t logic demand that you be a part of it?
~Captain Kirk to Spock—Star Trek the original series