ERIC ED350398: State of Idaho Vocational-Technical Education Annual Report, Fiscal Year 1991.

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State of Idaho Vocational-Technical Education Annual
Report, Fiscal Year 1991.
INSTITUTION
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. Div. of
Vocational Education.
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91
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DESCRIPTORS
Educational Planning; *Federal Legislation;
Postsecondary Education; Program Effectiveness;
*Program Implementation; *Pupil Personnel Services;
*School Activities; School Guidance; Secondary
Education; *State Programs; Student Organizations;
Student Personnel Services; *Vocational Education
IDENTIFIERS
*Idaho
ABSTRACT
This annual report on vocational-technical education
in Idaho is organized around five goals for the system that are part
of a 5-year strategic plan. The report highlights exemplary programs,
support groups, and student organizations that provide high quality
educational experiences to the students they serve. The following
goal-directed activities are reported:
(1) promote economic progress
in Idaho by meeting employer needs for training workers--business
advisory committees, a consortium, short-term training,
entrepreneurship programs. and business roundtable discussions;
(2)
provide students with foundation skills and personal
capabilities--restructured secondary programs, vocational/academic
integration, applied subjects, and vocational student organizations;
(3) meet student needs for specific vocational training--secondary
programs by district, postsecondary institutions, general
descriptions, and postsecondary programs and options;
(4) ensure
access to vocational training in Idaho--efforts in vocational equity,
counseling and guidance, service to populations with special
barriers, school reform and restructuring, career information
availability, Job Training Partnership Act funding, adult basic
education, teen parenting programs, and articulation; and (5) revise
the preparation and professional development of vocational
instructors--teacher education, the Professional Development Advisory
Council, and a summer conference. Summaries of the massive changes in
the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act
and the coordination efforts of the vocational-technical education
system and other programs and agencies are also provided.
(KC)
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STATE OF IDAHO
VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION
ANNUAL REPORT, FISCAL YEAR 1991
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STATE BOARD FOR
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Vocational Education is uoverned by the State Board of
Education. which in Idaho is designated as the State Board for
Vocational Education.
Colleen Mahoney.
President
Lewiston
Karl Shurtliff
Boise
Roy E. Mosman
Moscow
Roberta L. Fields
New Meadows
Keith S. Hinkley
Blackfoot
Gary Fay
Twin Falls
Diane Bilyeu
Pocatello
Jerry Evans
Supt of Public Instruction
Boise
Rayburn Barton. Executive Director
State Board of Education
Trudy Anderson
State Administrator
Division of Vocational Education
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EDUCATION
has always meant opportunity.
Today, education determines not
just which students will succeed,
but also which nations will thrive
in a world united in pursuit
of freedom in enterprise.
President George Bush
April 18. 1991
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Message from the Administrator
3
Goal I: Promote economic progress in Idaho by
meeting employer needs for trained workers
5
Business advisory committees
5
CAVES
5
Short-term training
5
Entrepreneurship programs
6
Business/Roundtable discussions
7
Goal II: Provide students with foundation skills and
personal capabilities
9
Restructured secondary programs
9
VocationaUAcademic integration
10
Applied subjects
10
Vocational student organizations
12
Goal III: Meet student needs for specific vocational
training
15
Secondary programs by district
15
Postsecondary institutions
16
General program descriptions
16
Postsecondary programs and options
18-19
Goal IV: Assure access to vocational training in
Idaho
21
Vocational equity
21
Counseling and guidance
22
Service to populations with special barriers
23
School reform/restructuring
23
Career information availability
24
JTPA funding
25
Adult Basic Education
25
Teen Parenting Programs
26
Articulation
27
Goal V: Revise the preparation and professional
development of vocational instructors
29
Teacher education
Professional Development Advisory Council 29
Summer Conference
30
Legislation and Coordination Activities
32
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and &pplied
Technology Education Act
32
Coordination efforts
33
Funding
34
Student enrollment
35
Support groups
36
Image building
36
Administrative staff
and Postsecondary institutions
inside back cover
MESSAGE FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR
Vocational - technical education is
Goal three: Meet student needs for
responsible for the occupational
specific vocational training in
development of Idaho's workforce.
selected occupations.
Your state Vocational Education
Goal four: Assure access to vocational
system provides an open door to
training for all participant groups
citizens interested in preparing for the
and individuals.
workplace.
Goal five: Revise the preparation and
Our mission is to improve the
professional development of
quality of life for Idaho .
its citizens.
instructors to meet the demands of
. .
its workforce. and its economy, by
the new eoals for vocational
providing quality programs and
education.
training that meet the needs of a rapidly
The report highlights exemplary
changing world.
programs, support groups. and student
Idaho's vocational-technical
organizations that provide quality
education system is guided by a five-
educational experiences to the students
year strategic plan adopted by the State
they serve. Summaries of the massive
Board for Vocational Education in
changes in the federal legislation and
1987. The plan identified five major
the coordination efforts of the voca-
goals for Idaho vocational-technical
tional-technical system and other
education. This annual report focuses
programs/agencies are also provided.
on the work accomplished between
As we move toward the 21st
July 1, 1990 and June 31, 1991 to meet
century, Idaho's Vocational Education
these specific goals:
system will continue to contend with
Goal One: Promote economic
dramatic changes that affect the
progress in Idaho by meeting
workforce in our state. our nation, and
employer needs for trained
our world. We will remain firmly
workers.
committed to providing Idahoans in
Goal Two: Provide students with the
every way possible, with the education
foundation skills and personal
and skills needed to develop their
capabilities required for occupa-
potential as skilled workers and
tional success in technical and
contributing citizens.
skilled areas.
TRUDY ANDERSON, PH.D.
State Administrator
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GOAL ONE:
PROMOTE ECONOMIC PROGRESS IN IDAHO
BY MEETING EMPLOYER NEEDS FOR
TRAINED WORKERS
Vocational Education's partnership with industry and
business plays a vital role in Idaho's economy. In FY1991,
that partnership's activities included advisory committees,
a resource management consortium called CAVES, short-
term training programs, entrepreneurship and small
business management programs, and business-roundtable
discussions.
beyond any single state educational
Business Advisory Committees
planning region.
In FY1991, advisory commit-
Member institutions strive to:
tees, industry representatives ap-
develop innovative projects by
pointed by The State Division of
combining resources, staff expertise,
Vocational Education (SDVE),
Vocational programs
and/or curriculum; implement
provided expertise, support, and
teach students skills
suggestions for the content of Idaho statewide projects, coordinating
that improve the
vocational programs. The advisory
statewide plans with business, industry
quality of Idaho's
workforce.
committees met with vocational and other agencies; and provide
educators and administrators to program, funding, and location
develop state-of-the-art curricula to
flexibility.
train Idaho's workforce. Committee
members designated the skills and
Short-Term Training
proficiency icvels needed for employ-
Apprenticeships
ment in different occupations.
Statewide, 936 apprentices
Technical committees made up
trained in 88 classes that included:
of employers from businesses,
electricians, plumbers, pipefitters,
members of related trade or professional
masonry workers, sheet metal work-
organizations, and members from
ers, carpenters, arc welders, mill-
organized labor when appropriate,
wrights. and diesel/industrial mechanics.
establish the actual task lists to be
In addition to classes, the
included in the official state curricu-
following special apprenticeship
lum guide.
activities were conducted:
Potlatch Corporation's
CAVES
agreement with the International
CAVES, a consortium com-
Woodworkers of America was based
prised of postsecondary vocational-
on the belief that existing maintenance
technical institutions and SDVE, is a
personnel should be able to voluntarily
management structure designed to use
achieve high wage levels. An
resources efficiently for special
apprentice and advanced journeyman
programs and projects that extend
Entry/Reentry Training Programs
upgrade training program was pro-
vided to maintenance personnel for 45
In FY1991, 164 individuals were
employees at the company's plants in
served in entry/reentry training
Lewiston, Bovill, Headquarters, and
programs. Training areas included:
Pierce. This program trained them in
automated office training in McCall; a
advanced journeyman skills with on-
welding program for 12 veterans of
the-job training, courses, and challenge
the Sho-Ban Tribe; computer training
testing.
to eight enrollees of the Older Worker
Program at ISU School of Applied
Lewis-Clark State College
Technology on MS/DOS. Lotus 1-2-3.
School of Technology sheet metal
word processing and databases;
apprentice program was delivered to
workplace literacy training of reading
eight apprentices working at various
comprehensicn and oral communica-
Lewiston businesses.
tion for 60 Pillsbury employees in
The Signatory-Carpenters
Shelley; and forest firefighting
Apprenticeship and Training Office in
training, in cooperation with the Forest
Pocatello requested assistance from
Service, for 74 low-income residents
Idaho State University School of
of the Salmon area. This course
Applied Technology for their appren-
trained people to fight forest fires
ticeship program. Twenty-eight
during the peak fire season in the
students enrolled and advanced at their
Boise State University
Intermountain West.
School of Applied Technology
own pace, covering specific areas
Car Care Clinics
where help was needed for jobs
College of Southern Idaho
scheduled over the next yew.
School of Vocational-
Car care clinics sponsored by the
Technical Education
Idaho Department of Water Re-
Upgrade Training
sources' Energy Division were
Eastern Idaho Technical
A total of 1.050 classes served
College
conducted from September through
15,839 adults. A few examples of
December, 1990. The clinics were
short-term, upgrade training include
Idaho State University, School
funded by oil-ovc:charge moneys and
of Applied Technology
courses in: fish technology, nursing
were held at the six postsecondary
assistant, computer training, travel
Lewis-Clark State College
vocational-technical institutions.
service, business English, food
School of Technology
A total of 785 vehicles were
service, medical terminology, book-
North Idaho College
inspected in regions I -VI.
keeping, refrigeration, welding, truck
School of Vocational-
driving, childcare, cashier-checker,
Technical Education
dental assisting, real estate license
Entrepreneurship Programs
State Division of Vocational
exam preparation, and radiation
Education
The Farm Business
protection fundamentals.
Management Program
Classes were held on the
During FY1991 a full-time Farm
campuses of the six postsecondary
Business Management program was
vocational-technical institutions and
initiated at Idaho State University with
outreach centers located in Caldwell,
classes offered daily for first, second
Eagle, Emmett, Homedale, McCall.
and third year programs. A record
Meridian, Mt.Home, Nampa. Payette.
number of 91 people representing 55
Weiser. Burley, Shelley, Soda Springs,
farm families were enrolled, and many
Grangeville, Headquarters, Kooskia,
commuted hundreds of miles to attend
Lapwai, Moscow, Orofmo, Peck,
classes.
Weippe, Coeur d'Alene, Sandpoint,
The Farm Business Management
Arco, Challis. Mackay. Rexburg.
program created a scholarship fund,
Rigby, Salmon and St. Anthony.
built a new computer lab with dona-
tions from participants, businesses and
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turing facilities, with actual plant
agricultural organizations, and was
layouts done by the participants.
elevated to a course credit.
The Canyon County program
served 10 farm families and rendered
Business-Roundtable Discussions
688 hours of services. Participants
The State Division of Voca-
received management training to
tional Education and the Idaho
develop the necessary skills to operate
Vocational-Technical Education
a farm in a professional manner.
Foundation, Inc. hosted three business
Instruction focused on subjects such as
and industry roundtable discussions, in
goals, records, and record keeping,
cooperation with Idaho's postsecond-
orientation and use of the computer in
ary vocational-technical institutions.
management, inventories, decision-
Business and industry representatives,
making, use of credit, cash flow,
state legislators, and members of the
balance sheet/and income statements.
State Board of Education discussed
A dairy technology course in the
issues surrounding vocational and
Magic Valley area provided training in
technical education in the decade of
dairy management techniques com-
the 1990's.
mon to commercial dairy operations to
The discussions reinforced
fill the demand for capable, educated
studies from around the United States
employees who can understand new
that confirm that people training for
dairy technology.
an occupation in today's market must
The same course was also
develop good reading. computational.
offered in Twin Falls to provide
and communications skills along with
opportunities for Hispanics in the
specific technical knowledge. Corn-
dairy industry. The program included
ments from the meetings include: (1)
employing a Hispanic program
students must be bright, capable and
teaching-assistant part-time to recruit
willing to learn; (2) academic and
5-10 Hispanics into dairy technology
vocational education must work
classes and to encourage these
together; (3) skills such as trouble-
students to learn English through its
shooting, reasoning and analyzing
use in the dairy industry.
must be developed by applying basic
Small Business Management
skills to job situations; (4) students
must develop better interpersonal
Seventy-one classes serving 800
skills; (5) students and employers will
participants were held in Regions
need to be better prepared in reading,
DI, V, and VI using the Program for
writing, speaking -- all communica-
Acquiring Competence in Entrepre-
tion skills; (6) practical application of
neurship (PACE) and Senior Corp of
knowledge is essential -- those with
Retired Executives (SCORE) curricu-
applied skills will continue to become
lum. The goal of these classes is to
employed; and (7) students need to get
educate small business owners and
quality vocational training while they
managers to exploit potential opportu-
earn their high school diploma.
nities for success and avoid problems
Vocational Education used data
leading to business failures. In Region
collected at these meetings to update
III, many of the small business
its long-range plans, prepare short-
training programs were delivered on
term training programs. and imple-
Interactive Television.
ment the new federal Carl D. Perkins
A two-day seminar at Boise
Vocational and Applied Technology
State University provided training in
Act legislation.
basic skills necessary to plan manufac-