Information Technology Across Career Clusters (ITAC 3)

EDC和四所合作社区学院正在完成“跨职业信息技术（ITAC）-第三阶段”项目。“这是一个计划改进项目，重点是所有行业部门的“IT使能”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。这个项目是一个三阶段计划的最后一步，该计划旨在为美国教育部确定的16个职业集群制定一个通用的IT应用学习方法;并提供工具、流程和示例，以支持教师将核心IT技能融入他们的课程和计划。这些工具被认为是有价值和有用的，以改善教育和多样性教学法。跨职业群的IT项目（ITAC 1和ITAC 2）开发了伙伴关系，框架，并测试了10个职业群的过程。通过这些投资，EDC与来自10所社区学院的教师团队共同开发了一种定义“IT应用”的通用语言和跨集群共享的课程框架，用于教授IT应用技能;与业务伙伴合作起草了在各种行业环境中执行日常任务和解决问题时使用IT的真实示例;开发和试点的基于ECOMO的课程，可供全国各地的教师和学生使用，以开发各种职业中IT使能工人使用的核心IT技能;和分享的思考、经验教训，作为国家信息技术教育资源的一部分，该项目将以前的ITAC项目扩展到剩余的6个职业生涯集群-信息技术，商业/管理/行政，金融，政府/公共行政，人类服务，营销/销售/服务。 该小组正在审查和更新工具和规则，增加新的技能组合和主题，以应对对核心“信息技术用户”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网页设计）。该项目特别强调制定和实施有针对性的营销计划，以确保ATE社区熟悉并获得通过该倡议为所有16个职业集群/计划领域开发的资源。通过参与网络和协会完成并分发这些教学资源，这些材料已经超出了ATE的预期受众，到达了其他社区学院的教员，以及中学和中学后职业和技术教育计划的教师/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.