Information Technology Across Career Clusters (ITAC 3)

EDC和四所合作的社区学院正在完成“跨职业信息技术(ITAC)-第三阶段”项目。这是一个程序改进项目，重点关注所有行业部门的“IT启用”工人所需的核心信息技术技能。这项工作的主要受众是社区和技术学院的教师。该项目是一个分三个阶段的计划的最后一步，该计划旨在开发一种通用的方法来学习美国教育部确定的16个职业集群的IT应用程序；并提供工具、流程和示例，以支持教师将核心IT技能整合到他们的课程和项目中。人们发现这些工具对于改善教育和多样性教学法是有价值和有用的。跨职业集群IT项目（ITAC 1和ITAC 2）开发了伙伴关系、框架，并在10个职业集群中测试了这一过程。通过这些投资，教育发展局与来自10所社区学院的教师团队合作，开发了一种定义“资讯科技应用”的通用语言，并制定了跨集群共享的课程框架，以教授资讯科技应用技能；与业务伙伴合作，起草在执行日常任务和解决不同行业环境中的问题时使用IT的真实示例；开发和试点基于场景的课程，供全国各地的教师和学生使用，以培养各种职业中IT工作者使用的核心IT技能；并与全国社区学院教师分享反思、经验教训、工具和资源，作为全国信息技术教育资源的一部分。这个项目是将以前的ITAC项目扩展到其余6个职业组-资讯科技、商业/管理/行政、财务、政府/公共行政、人力服务、市场营销/销售/服务。该团队正在审查和更新工具和标准，增加新的技能集和主题，以响应核心“IT用户”能力不断变化的期望（例如笔记本电脑和家庭网络安全，以及基本的网页设计）。该项目特别强调制定和实施一项有针对性的营销计划，以确保技术培训社区熟悉并能够获得通过该倡议为所有16个职业集群/方案领域开发的资源。通过参与网络和协会完成和分发这些教学资源，这些材料已经超出了ATE的目标受众，进入了其他社区学院的教职员工，以及中学和中学后职业和技术教育项目的教师/管理人员。

EDC and four collaborating community colleges are completing the program "Information Technology Across Careers (ITAC)-Phase Three." This is a program improvement project focusing on core Information Technology skills needed by "IT enabled" workers across all industry sectors. The primary audience for this effort is community and technical college faculty. This project is the final step of a three-phased initiative to develop a common approach to the learning the IT applications across the 16 career clusters identified by the U.S. Department of Education; and to provide tools, processes and examples to support faculty as they integrate core IT skills into their curriculum and programs.These tools have been found to be valuable and useful to improve education and diversity pedagogy. The projects of IT Across Career Clusters (ITAC 1 and ITAC 2) developed the partnerships, framework and tested the process with ten career clusters. Through these investments EDC, with faculty teams from 10 community colleges, have developed a common language defining "IT applications" and curricular framework shared across the clusters for teaching IT applications skills; worked with business partners to draft authentic examples of IT use in performing routine tasks and solving problems in various industry settings; developed and piloted scenario-based lessons that can be used by faculty and students across the country to develop core IT skills used by IT enabled workers within various careers; and shared reflections, lessons learned, tools and resources with community college faculty nationally as part of a national resource for IT education.This project is extending the previous ITAC projects to the remaining 6 career clusters - Information Technology, Business/Management/Administration, Finance, Government/Public Administration, Human Services, Marketing/Sales/Service. The team is reviewing and updating tools and rubrics, adding new skill sets and topics in response to the changing expectations of core "IT user" competence (e.g. laptop and home network security, and basic web design). The project is placing special emphasis on developing and implementing a targeted marketing plan to ensure that the ATE community is familiar with and has access to the resources developed through this initiative for all 16 career clusters/program areas.By completing and distributing these instructional resources through the participating networks and associations, these materials are already reaching beyond the intended ATE audience to other community college faculty, and to the teachers/administrators in secondary and post secondary career and technical education programs.