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Welcome
Our Plans for Today: Learn about two ATE projects focused on
employability skills development and how you can get involved
Discuss the wide array of perspectives on what employability skills are and how they should be acquired
Hear from employers who will share on-the-job examples of employability skills gone wrong and how you can best prepare technicians for success in the STEM workplace
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Infusing Vital Employability Skills into Cybersecurity and Advanced Manufacturing Programs
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant DUE-1501990. Any
opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do
not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.
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Big Picture• Evidence from both employers and researchers reveals
a lack of employability skills in today’s technical workforce. • Community college faculty understand the woes of employers
but have no room in their curriculum to add content.• The Necessary Skills Now (NSN) project paired faculty with
employers to develop curriculum integrating technical content and employability skills
• Two disciplines:• Advanced Manufacturing • Cybersecurity
IntegratedContent
EmployabilitySkills
TechnicalSkills
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Content Focus
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TEAMWORK PROBLEM SOLVING
VERBAL COMMUNICATION
WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
DEPENDABILITY/WORK ETHIC
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PLANNING AND ORGANIZING
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Curriculum Development
Working group for each sector Six development teams each Teams comprised of employer
and faculty member
Employers provide authentic industry scenarios to provide context for integrated projectFaculty serve as instructional designers
Sector Working Group
Development Team
Employer FacultyMember
DevelopmentTeam
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Collection of Integrated Projects Complete, workplace-relevant,
classroom-ready materials Address one or more employability skills Aligned to content already taught
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Faculty DevelopmentWorkshops in 2018 focused on how to... Identify intersections of technical and
employability content within a program of study Partner with employers to develop authentic
industry scenarios Design an effective integrated project
(from a template)
www.NecessarySkillsNow.org
21st Century Skills:
Project Development Used Crowd Source Methodology
Note about the collaborative: Project initially began October 2016 through broad email invite
from project manager to well-known ATE CoPIs
Series of conference calls and numerous emails solidified overall project goals and collaborative mechanisms
A crowd-source mechanism for generating and voting for project ideas was implemented through website and voting
General theme was to focus on broad student soft skills most desired by industry and how to best achieve them
Desire to extend the Resiliency project perfected at 4-year university for two-year community college
Four potential project ideas were reduced to two candidates that eventually yielded one fully developed proposal for submittal by Oct 5 deadline
Project Timeline and Synthesis
Project Proposal Timeline:
Oct-Dec 2016: initial conference calls (participants n = 30)
Jan-Mar 2017: crowd-source mechanism implemented by project manager (n = 20)
Apr-June 2017: website mini-proposals recruited, discussed and voted upon (n = 15)
July 2017: F2F meeting workshop @ HI-TEC Conference (n = 10)
Aug 2017: Resiliency project survived and developed into full proposal. Lead college changed twice during development (n = 7)
Oct 2017: Full proposal completed on Oct 2 and submitted on Oct 5 into Fastlane
Project Goals and Objectives
Resiliency Project
A development and implementation project
Adapt a proven 4-year college instrument for 2-year college implementation
Overall goal is to increase student retention during freshman year through a specific intervention
Secondary goal is to determine if similar intervention can improve new employee retention following graduation
First year will be adapting the intervention and testing for efficacy in 2-year college setting
Second and third year will be implementing with four cohorts of learners (with a parallel industry effort)
Project Description
Resiliency Project
Lake Washington Institute of Technology and Del Mar College
Belonging intervention pioneered by Greg Walton, Geoffrey Cohen, David Yeager
Intervention takes only 30-45 minutes
Retention rate improvements of 4- 15%
52% reduction in the minority-majority GPA gap
Intervention works by lowering social belonging anxiety
Lowered anxiety then causes students to more fully take advantage of college’s resources and social networks
This joint industry-academic effort will validate whether a promising intervention can be successfully applied to community colleges and the workplace
Employability Skill Taxonomies
Dept. of Education Employability Skills Framework
Business Roundtable Common Employability Skills
Center for Curriculum Redesign, 4 Dimensional Education
Dept. of Labor Necessary Skills (original SCANS report, 1991)
P21.org, Framework for 21st Century Learning
Employability Skill Taxonomies
Today’s Panel
Matt GloverChief Technology Officer, Le-Vel
Donald McCoyPresident, Donald McCoy & Associates/Retired IBM Engineer
Tom Miller CEO, Western Industrial Tooling
Contact Us
Industry Panelists:
Matt [email protected]
Necessary Skills Now Project:
Hope [email protected]
John [email protected]
Resiliency Project:
Merrilea [email protected]
Phillip [email protected]