# Presentation: 515290

-  Instructor’s Guide for Basic Information Technology
- Training

***IT Work$***

**Notes:**

Talking Points

Information Technology (IT) skills are powerful tools that will enable our students to search and prepare for jobs, keep pace with workplace requirements, and access training support services.

These skills will allow students to build their careers and enrich their lives long after they leave Job Corps.

To assure that all new students can learn and apply basic IT skills early in their Job Corps experience, IT training is an important part of the Career Preparation Period of CDSS.

The requirements of IT training will be outlined in the restructured PRH to be released July 1, 2001.

IT Work$ is designed to assist centers in establishing, or enhancing, their Basic IT programs.

- The IT Project

-  Industry need for IT workers; Job Corps
-   works with Industry Partners
-  NWCET IT curriculum developed; 11 Job
-    Corps centers pilot the curriculum
-  Focus of project changed to meet CDSS
-    requirements for Basic IT training in
-    CPP

**Notes:**

Talking Points

The Information Technology (IT) project began in 1998 in response to the IT worker shortage.  Job Corps joined with a number of industry partners and agencies to identify industry-recognized competencies.

Partners included ACT, Cisco Systems, IBM, ITAA (the Information Technology Association of America), Microsoft, National Institute for Literacy, the NorthWest Center for Emerging Technologies (NWCET), Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) and the Dept. of Labor Technology Council.

NWCET was contracted to re-purpose their two-year Tech Prep IT curriculum into an IT foundations course for Job Corps.  As part of the process, 11 Job Corps centers provided input and piloted the curriculum.

IT pilot centers were given the flexibility to pilot the NWCET curriculum in a number of ways - as a "full IT" vocational area, as vocational enhancement to trades already on center, or as a component of their current Orientation or OEP.

It was this last pilot scenario that has provided a wealth of information which centers can use in implementing IT training during the Career Preparation Period of CDSS.

*IT Work$ - **in four parts*

-  Desk Reference
-  Training Products
-  Implementation Approaches
-  Online Resources

**Notes:**

Talking Points

IT Work$ is being presented in four parts - three in hard copy; one online.

IT Work$:  Desk Reference                            (show it)
IT Work$:  Training Products                       (show it)
IT Work$:  Implementation Approaches      (show it)
     and,
IT Work$:  Online Resources - On the Job Corps Career Development Resource Center (www.jccdrc.org)

NOTE: To model the use of technology, the National Office has also posted the entire IT Work$ series online at www.jccdrc.org.

*IT Work$:*  Desk Reference

-  Your desktop resource includes:
-  Basic IT Record
-  Overview ***Express IT*** and ***IT Tutor***
-  Curriculum Resources
-  List of Online Resources and URLs
-  Frequently Asked Questions  (FAQs)
-  Glossary of IT Terms
-  Contacts for IT Information

**Notes:**

Talking Points

IT Work$:  Desk Reference is a thin, spiral-bound edition, filled with items that IT instructors will most want to have handy -

    the Basic IT Record    (not required, but a guideline)
    Overviews of both the Express IT curriculum and the IT Tutor 
    A list of additional curriculum resources
    A list of online resources and URLs     (Web addresses)
    Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
    A glossary of IT terms, and
    Contacts for more information on implementing Basic IT

*IT Work$:*  Training Products

- Three-ring binder includes:
*** ******Express IT***   (8 modules of NWCET
-    curriculum can be used for Basic
-    IT)
*** ******IT Tutor*** developed by
-    AFRL/TutorTek (CD and User’s
-    Manual)

**Notes:**

Talking Points

IT Work$:  Training Products is the large binder which includes two products, which Job Corps centers can use free of charge.

Express IT is an accelerated version of the full IT curriculum from NWCET. These eight modules can be used to teach Basic IT.  Express IT has been "tested" by the IT pilot centers, and their comments can be found on the JCCDRC Web page.

The IT Tutor was developed by AFRL/TutorTek.com and is also available free of charge to Job Corps centers.  The CD-ROM is included in this binder (show it), as well as the corresponding User's Manual. 

The IT pilot centers have found that the IT Tutor can be used with both students and staff.  It's also been used with ESL students. IT pilot center comments on the IT Tutor are also available online.   

NOTE:  Full versions of both Express IT and the IT Tutor are available online at www.jccdrc.org.

*IT Work$:*  Implementation Approaches

-  Part A
-  Getting Ready for IT - Issues to Consider
-  Planning, Infrastructure, Technical
-   Support and Staff Development
-  Part B
-  Here’s How We Did IT – Implementation
-    Models
-  Overviews from five IT pilot centers

**Notes:**

Talking Points

IT Work$:  Implementation Approaches is the third part, again in spiral-bound format.  There are two parts to Implementation Approaches.

Part A alerts centers to some of the up-front issues - planning, infrastructure, technical support and staff development - that need to be considered as centers begin to design their programs.  Questions are posed to get you thinking.  "BIT Tips" are suggestions, experiences and ideas from the IT pilot centers.

Part B highlights direct experiences of some of the IT pilot centers.  Five centers (Alaska, Cascades, Penobscot, Shriver, and South Bronx) describe how they prepared to teach Basic IT and how they chose to implement the program.

*IT Work$:*  Online Resources

-  Tips for Teaching with Technology
-  Student Samples
-  Teacher-Developed Products and
-    Activities
-  Job Corps  ***IT Solution$***
*** ******Job Corps Career Development***
***   ******Resource Center: *****http://www.jccdrc.org**

**Notes:**

Talking Points

IT Work$:  Online Resources
While the entire guide is available online through JCCDRC, there are parts of the guide - the Appendices - which can be found only online.

The Appendices include the following items:
   Tips for Teaching with Technology - how to utilize technology in your teaching;
   Student Samples - samples of student work from the IT Project;
   Teacher Developed Products and Activities - several centers have developed their own curricula, including 		interactive lessons, scripts, and PowerPoint 	presentations; 
   Job Corps IT Solution$ - will provide centers with regular IT industry updates, implementation tips, innovative ways to infuse IT throughout vocations, and answers to your questions.  

*IT Work$*

-  For more information regarding *IT Work$,*
-    Basic IT, getting started, staff
-    development, or infusing Information
-    Technology into vocational offerings,
-    contact:
-        Lynne Fry           or          Cathy Keiter
-    (202) 693-3101 	               (202) 693-3142
-    lfry@doleta.gov	            ckeiter@doleta.gov

**Notes:**

Talking Points

The National Office would like to continue to provide you with materials that will be useful to you and your center.

They need your input and your feedback... 
    What other areas of IT information would be helpful? 
    What kind of technical assistance do you need? 
    What format works best for getting the information you need? 

Call or e-mail Cathy or Lynne directly with your ideas and your requests.