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“Passport to Success: Counseling for 21st Century College and Career Readiness”
Connecting California teachers. Enriching high school education.
Sarah Fidelibus, UCCI Programs Director Erica Harbison, English - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Sarah Fidelibus, UCCI Programs Director Erica Harbison, English - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
University of California Curriculum Integration: Courses for a Changing World Sarah Fidelibus, UCCI Programs Director Erica Harbison, English Teacher, Lawndale High School Passport to Success: Counseling for 21st Century College and Career
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Attend endees will: l:
- 1. Learn about UCCI programs
ms.
- 1. Learn about UCCI courses
es and gain an understanding of what it takes to imple lement ent them.
- 1. Understand how UCCI courses help students fulfill “a-g”
subject ect requi uiremen ements ts while le they explor
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e potent ntia ial l career er paths.
- 1. Find out how to take advantage of the servi
vices ces UCCI offers.
Pre resent entat ation ion Go Goal als
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UC UCCI CI Ba Back ckgr ground und
UC reviews and approves courses meeting the “a-g” subject requirements for UC and CSU freshman admission. A portion of those courses are identified by the California Department of Education (CDE) as CTE courses.
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UC UCCI CI Ba Back ckgr ground und
Chart illustrates distribution of all CTE courses in CA approved in “a-g” subject areas
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What the data means: ns:
- The vast majority of integrated courses are approved
in the College Preparatory Elective (“g”) and Visual and Performing Arts (“f”) subject areas.
- As such, it is difficult for high school students to
participate fully in a CTE pathway while also trying to complete “a-g” requirements.
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Chart illustrates distribution of UCCI courses approved in “a-g” subject areas
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UC UCCI CI Ba Back ckgr ground und
What the data means: ns:
- Because UCCI focuses on creating integrated
courses for approval in all “a - g” subject areas, students can engage fully with CTE while they complete their “a-g” requirements.
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UCCI Mi Mission ion
Expand and op
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tunities es for appli lied ed le learni ning ng throughout California, so all students have access to college and career preparation.
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UC UCCI CI Hi Histor tory
The UCCI Initiative launched in 2010, with its first program, the UCCI Institutes. Funding provided by Career Technical Education Pathways Initiative (SB 70), and administered by the California Department of Education (CDE), UC’s partner agency.
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UCCI Pro rogr gram ams
UCCI Inst stitutes itutes
Development
- f UCCI courses
Cert rtifi fied ed UCCI Facilita litator
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Trainings & Facilitation for integrated course design
UCCI Teacher her Exc xchang ange e
Support for teaching UCCI courses
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Int ntegr grat ated Cur d Curri ricu culum lum
Wha hat t it is t is:
➔ Authentic, logical “marriage” between Career Technical
Education (CTE) & academic subjects.
Wha hat t it d t does: s:
➔ Highlights connections between academic work & “real world.” ➔ Offers students opportunities to explore potential career paths. ➔ Grounds learning in a context. ➔ Allows students to engage in experiential learning.
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Wha hat makes es a UC UCCI CI co cour urse se un unique? que?
It It ha has s an n ident ntity ity: The course has a unifying theme or “story” that drives the learning and engages students. It’s authentic: The work of the course is logically integrated, allowing students to use classroom learning to solve real problems faced by real industries.
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Wha hat makes es a UC UCCI CI co cour urse se un unique? que?
It’s personal: These projects frequently require students to think through and solve real problems in their communities, adding more relevance to the work of the course. It’s challenging: The coursework takes students out of their thinking “comfort zone,” preparing them to handle projects that increase in complexity from one unit to the next.
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UCC CCI I Co Course rse Stats ats
➔ 70 courses currently on the UCCI course catalog ➔ Courses span 12 of the 15 CTE sectors and all of the seven a-g subject areas ➔ 387 institutions of secondary education have added UCCI courses to their “a-g” course lists
➔ More than 300,000 students now have access to UCCI
courses
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Sampl mples: es:
➔ Writing Games for Social Change: English 9 and Game Design ➔ U.S. History and Public Health
UCCI Cour urses es
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UCC CCI I Co Course rses Vi View w all l the co course ses s in ou
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catalog log: http://bit.ly/ucciagcatalog
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Ac Access ess UC UCCI CI Co Course se Res esources
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UCCI Course Catalog: http://bit.ly/ucciagcatalog UCCI Course Teacher Directory: http://bit.ly/ucci_tch_directory UCCI Teacher Exchange: http://bit.ly/ucciteprogram UCCI Courses with Instructional Materials: http://bit.ly/ucci_instr_mat_li
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