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K20CETC Projects > Career Exploration/STEM

Overall Goals:
To facilitate partnerships that create efficiencies, enhance effectiveness, or hold great promise for creating new discoveries that demonstrate effective, innovative, network-enabled approaches to teaching and learning.

To identify effective online teaching and learning methods and to promote best practices.

To make it possible for all faculty/teachers and students across the state to create or access and use free, high-quality, standards-aligned online learning resources including but not limited to the UC College Preparation Program's Advanced Placement courses in an efficient manner.

To make it possible for all students across the state to enroll in a rich array of high-quality online courses that are part of comprehensive degree and/or career certification programs.

Objectives:
  1. To ensure that when students leace middle school, they have a sense of what career pathways they are interested in exploring further in high school, based upon a reflection of their personal interests, hopes, and dreams for the future.
  2. To increase the number of students pursuing pathways in science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
  3. To increase opportunities for students to take coursework that satisfies taht A-G requirements and prepares them for a career in the career pathway of choice, and to provide opportunities to gain insights into their chosen field through engagement with working professionals.

Timeline for Completion:
Model middle school career exploration pilot to be underway at sites: September 2008
Pilot expanded to districts across the state: January 2009
The Real Game California™ professional development site and offerings to be underway: February 2008
Green plumbing model course to be underway: January 2009

Career Exploration/STEM Committee:
TBD

Links:
The Real Game California™
California Community Colleges Economic Workforce Development


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