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

2. Integrated Education and Training
1. What is one thing you know about IET?
2. List one thing you are already doing in your classroom to implement work readiness and/or career awareness.
20minutes
3 corners around the room and they will rotate to answer the questions. Have 2 flip charts for each question
Sometimes its hard to see beyond the big picture and look deeper at the details.

3. 5 minutes
Sometimes we only see the one deer…HSE when in reality we need to see both. We know that one will always take priority over the other

4. So What IS IET?

5. 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).

6. 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.

7. Adult Education and Literacy
Workplace Essential Skills
8 Math Practices
Instructional Shift

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Instructional Shifts Evidence Coherence Rigor Knowledge Complexity
Focus

11. You Are Already Awesome
How many of these do you already do?

12. Where Do We Start? Know your 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

13. 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

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

15. 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.

16. Warm-Ups Math Brain Teasers and Story Problems Current Events
Newspaper articles, work related story problems
Current Events
Business Journals have great graphs
Thumb Balls 5
WiOA wants higher order and critical thinking skills
Have a puzzle maker handout
Do Anagrams—using employment and training

17. In what ways do you or can 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?

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

19. The Power of Words

20. Introduction What does this video have to do with employment skills?
Why would I use this to also teach writing?
5 minutes
Its about asking the right question

21. Presentation

22. Writing/Reading What if…. What’s the difference…..
What am I teaching? What is my presentation? How is this teaching both Employement/Career skills and HSE

23. Math
What does the quadratic formula have to do with employment training?

24. 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?

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

26. Application
What is one concept that you will implement immediately in your classrooms?

27. “Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution. ~ Stephen Sondheim