ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL NEEDS/PLAN OF IMPROVEMENT
INSTRUCTIONS
Item 1. The county director will be responsible for coordinating the development of one Assessment of Educational Needs/Plan of Improvement for any high schools within the county having concentrations not meeting the Proficiency Standards.
Item 2. The plan will consist of as many as six sections - depending on the offerings in the high schools within the county and whether or not there were concentrations in those areas that failed to meet one or more of the Proficiency Standards.
The six sections are:
1. Agriculture,
2. Business/Marketing,
3. Health Occupations,
4. Family and Consumer Science (Pro-Start, ACDS),
5. Technical and Industrial, and
6. Public Safety/Emergency Services
One way to approach this would be to convene six small committees, one representing each of the content areas, to develop the portion of the plan that addresses their area, i.e., one committee for all high school Agriculture programs in the county.
Item 3. For each of the six sections, you may have as many as three sub-sections - one for each Proficiency Standard. To simplify the process as much as possible, we are grouping the standards into three sub-sections:
A. Academic Skills (WorkKeys Reading and/or MathTests);
B. Technical Skills (End-of-Course Technical Skills Tests); and,
C. Placement (Overall Placement and/or Employed in Field and/or Continuing
Education in Field.)
As illustration, the sections and sub-sections might look like this:
County - Wonderful County
Section - Agriculture
Sub-Section – Proficiency Standard A
Sub-Section – Proficiency Standard B
Sub-Section – Proficiency Standard C
Section - Business/Marketing
Sub-Section - Proficiency Standard A
Sub-Section - Proficiency Standard B
Sub-Section - Proficiency Standard C
Etc.
Item 4. Whatever section and sub-section you are working on, in the first column you will list the schools(s) that had concentrations that did not meet standard. In column 2, you will list all the concentrations within those schools that did not meet the Proficiency Standards for that sub-section. You will then record the score that students in that concentration achieved in column 3. For column 4, you will use the following formulas to calculate and record the target goal for this year for each of the concentrations.
For those concentrations scoring more than 10 percentage points below the required percentage for that standard, the target goal will be the score plus one-third of the difference between the score and the standard.
For those concentrations scoring between 5% and 10% less than the standard, the target score will be the current scores plus one-half the difference.
For those concentrations scoring 1% to 5% less than the standard, the target goal will be the standard.
Item 5. Use this space to list the major causes that you have identified as those responsible for the deficiencies in this sub-section. These should correlate to the activities/strategies that Item 6 addresses.
Item 6. This is where you develop your plan of improvement. In column 1, you will list the strategy or activity you believe will help in correcting the deficiencies. In column 2, you will give a date or timeline for implementing the strategy or conducting the activity. In the third column, you will list the person responsible for making sure the strategies/activities are implemented.
ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL NEEDS/PLAN OF IMPROVEMENT
SCHOOL YEAR ______
1. County/Multi-County Center ______
2. Check One Section
Agriculture
Business/Marketing
Family and Consumer Science
Health Occupations
Technical and Industrial
Public Safety/Emergency Services
3. Check One Sub-Section
Proficiency Standard A: WorkKeys Reading and Math Scores
Proficiency Standard B: End-of-Course Technical Skills Tests
Proficiency Standard C: Placement
4. Schools/Concentrations Not Meeting Standards
SCHOOL
/CONCENTRATION
/ CURRENTSCORE / TARGET
SCORE
5. List the Identified Causes of the Deficiencies.
6. Plan of Improvement. (If you have more than 5 activities/strategies, list the most important.)
ACTIVITY/STRATEGY
/DATE/
TIMELINE
/ PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLEa.
b.
c.
d.
e.
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SAMPLE
ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL NEEDS/PLAN OF IMPROVEMENT
SCHOOL YEAR 2006-07
1.County/Multi-County Center Wonderful County
2. Check One Section
Agriculture
X Business/Marketing
Family and Consumer Science
Health Occupations
Technical and Industrial
Public Safety/Emergency Services
3. Check One Sub-Section
Proficiency Standard A: WorkKeys Reading and Math Scores
Proficiency Standard B: End-of-Course Technical Skills Tests
X Proficiency Standard C: Placement
4. Schools/Concentrations Not Meeting Standards
SCHOOL
/CONCENTRATION
/ 2005-06 SCORE / 2006-07 TARGETAcme H.S. / Administrative Support / 75% / 80%
Finance and Accounting / 80% / 85%
John Doe H.S. / Finance and Accounting / 85% / 90%
5. List the Identified Causes of the Deficiencies.
The schools did not have a structured process for collecting information on completers. Not everyone who should have been involved (administrators, teachers, students, advisory committee members) was aware of their responsibilities. The WVEIS screens for too many students were left blank, generating automatic “Status Unknown” codes.
6. Plan of Improvement. (If you have more than 5 activities/strategies, list the most important.)
ACTIVITY/STRATEGY
/DATE/
TIMELINE
/ PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLEa. The county CTE administrator will coordinate the development of a structured placement program that all schools in the county will follow / By December 14, 2006 / County director
b. The principals (directors) of the schools will hold staff meetings with teachers to explain the new system and start the process. The process will include a time line to inform teachers of when various forms are due to the principal. / By January 1, 2007 / School principals/
directors
c. Teachers will hold advisory committee meetings to plan the involvement of the members in the placement program. / By January 30, 2007 / Teachers
d. Teachers will start collecting information on 2004-5 and 2005-6 completers. / January 30, 2007, to last day employed in June, 2007 / Teachers
e. The county director will monitor throughout the year to make sure all elements of the program are being implemented, including entering data on WVEIS. / January 1, 2007 to June 30, 2007 / County Director
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