OREGON

State Director-Leonard Kunzman

INTRODUCTION

In 1969 the State board of education established the development of career education as its No. 1 instructional priority for the public education system in Oregon.

This career education program is based upon a model which provides for comprehensive program development at the elementary, midschool, secondary, and post-high school levels. The curriculum design is based upon a strong emphasis on guidance and counseling at every level. Specifically, programs are being developed to accomplish the following:

Occupational Specialization, Posthigh and Adult

Includes programs in 13 community colleges, apprenticeship, private vo-tech schools, and 4-year colleges and universities. Where students will be involved in developing specific occupational knowledge and preparation in a specialized job area; have opportunity to form meaningful employer-employee type relationships; and be provided necessary retraining or upgrading skills.

Occupational Preparation, Grades 11-12

Centers on career cluster programs at 11-12 grades where students will acquire occupational skills and knowledge for entry-level employment and/or advanced occupational training; tie a majority of high school experiences into generalized career goals; develop acceptable job attitudes; and be involved in cooperative work experience and have opportunity to be a member of a vocational youth organization.

Career Exploration, Grades 7-10

Programs in the midschool years usually grades 6-7 through 10, where students will explore key occupational areas and assess own interests and abilities; become familiar with occupational classifications and clusters; develop awareness of relevant factors to be considered in decisionmaking; gain experience in meaningful decisionmaking; and develop tentative occupational plans and arrive at a tentative career choice.

Career Awareness, Grades K-6

Includes programs in the elementary grades, where students will develop awareness of the many occupational careers available; develop awareness of self in relation to the occupational career role; develop foundations for wholesome attitudes toward work and society; develop attitudes of respect and appreciation toward workers in all fields; and

make tentative choices of career cluster to explore in greater depth during midschool years.

The statutes following reflect only the enrollments in 11th and 12th grade programs and post-high school and adult enrollments in vocational programs. However, it is important to mention that the goal of educators in Oregon is to provide career awareness and career exploratory experiences to 100 percent of the students.

Total enrollments of all persons in vocational education programs within Oregon (including consumer and homemaking): 1963, 33,595; 1968, 60,170; 1972, 123,936; 1977 estimate, 147,377.

Specifically the State board of education has adopted the goal of preparing 70 percent of the 11th and 12th grade students by 1977 for their chosen careers through occupational cluster curriculums in our public high schools. Local districts have begun to accept the challenge of this goal as reflected in the following graph:

Percent

STUDENT ENROLLMENT--APPROVED CLUSTERS GRADES 11 & 12.

PUBLIC LAW 90-576 "PART B-STATE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS" a. Job Training Enrollments (including Consumer and Homemaking)

The growth and development of Federal job training programs for youth and adults in terms of enrollments for fiscal years 1963 to 1977 (projected) has already been outlined in section (2)a. Extensive work

is now underway in terms of identifying emerging job fields and correlating manpower demand with manpower supply in the state of Oregon through the development of a career program planning system. This computer-based data retrieval system will contain State and local manpower demand data, primarily obtained from the State employment service, as well as manpower supply data obtained from major training institutions throughout the State, including federally funded and nonfunded programs.

At present the 6-year projected manpower demand in wage and salary occupational areas in Oregon is as follows: Service, 15 percent; clerical, 13 percent; food service, 13 percent; marketing, 11 percent; health, 8 percent; construction, 7 percent; industrial mechanics, 6 percent; secretarial, 5 percent; metals, 3 percent; accounting, 3 percent; forestry, 2 percent; electricity-electronics, 2 percent; agriculture, 4 percent; graphics, 1 percent; not classified, 10 percent.

The major suppliers of trained manpower in Oregon include: Secondary vocational programs, community college programs, adult education, apprenticeship, private schools and universities. Other minor supply programs include such programs as MDTA, Job Corps, private industry, training and correctional facility programs. Several of these supply institutions are directly affected by Federal funding. In comparing the manpower demand-supply situation in its present form and looking ahead at emerging demand areas it is evident that there is some mismatch between demand and supply. Specific examples include a shortage of training programs in the service occupational area and saturation of the market in some high visibility careers in forestry. Efforts are underway at the secondary school level to implement vocational service occupation programs. Similarly, at the community college level several programs are being instituted in the emerging occupational area of legal assistant. In the forestry area emphasis is being shifted from the forestry technician type programs toward processing occupations. Other programs being implemented in response to state and local demand include an appraisal and assessor program, log truck driving and small engine-recreation vehicle mechanic programs.

The above-described career program planning system will help identify and provide data for the implementation of additional, extension or curtailment of existing manpower training programs in federally as well as nonfederally funded programs.

c. Postsecondary Courses (enrollments)

d. Disadvantaged Students (Secondary and Postsecondary Combined)