Oklahoma Tech Prep
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OklahomaTech Prep is a a division of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education, located in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Tech Prep is funded through the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Actof 2006.
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[edit] Tech Prep Background
Tech Prep, which began in the early 1980s as a small, locally driven high school improvement strategy, has grown into a major national strategy for improving students' academic knowledge and technical skills. As defined in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act (Perkins), Tech Prep is a sequenced program of study that combines at least two years of secondary and two years of postsecondary education. It is designed to help students gain academic knowledge and technical skills, and often earn college credit for their secondary coursework. Programs are intended to lead to an associate's degree or a certificate in a specific career field, and ultimately, to high wage, high skill employment or advanced postsecondary training.
Roughly 47% of the nation's high schools (or 7,400 high schools) offer one or more Tech Prep programs. Nearly every community and technical college in the nation participates in a Tech Prep consortium, as do many four-year colleges and universities, private businesses, and employer and union organizations.
Research on the effectiveness of Tech Prep programs is inconclusive. State evaluations in Texas and New York found some evidence that Tech Prep improved students' grade point averages, lowered dropout, reduced absences, increased high school completion, and improved postsecondary enrollment. However, these evaluations did not find evidence that Tech Prep improved students' scores on standardized academic achievement tests, and findings were mixed on whether Tech Prep improved students' postsecondary achievement or labor market outcomes. The last national evaluation of Tech Prep programs, conducted in 1997, found that Tech Prep programs were not always implemented as envisioned in the legislation, perhaps lessening their impact on student outcomes.
These programs support students' transitions to postsecondary education through dual enrollment, access to advanced facilities and labs, and exposure to college life.
[edit] Tech Prep Consotria
Tech Prep, in Oklahoma, is a partnership between CareerTech Centers and higher education. The students attend a local CareerTech center which provides career and technology education for high school students in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The students generally spend part of each day in their respective schools pursuing academic subjects in addition to attending classes in their affiliated CareerTech center. Technology centers are managed by the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
- Autry Tech Prep Consortium - Autry Technology Center
- Northwest Oklahoma Tech Prep - Northwest Technology Center & High Plains Technology Center
- Southwest Tech Prep - Southwest Technology Center
- Western Tech Prep - Western Technology Center
- North Central Oklahoma Tech Prep - Pioneer Technology Center
- Tulsa Tech Prep - Tulsa Technology Center
- World Class Graduates - Central Technology Center
- Central Oklahoma Tech Prep - Gordon Cooper Technology Center
- Region 5-North Tech Prep - Meridian Technology Centers
- CREATE Tech Prep - Oklahoma City Community College
- Eastern Oklahoma County Consortium - Eastern Oklahoma County Technology Center
- FOCUS Tech Prep Consortium - Moore Norman Technology Center
- Mid-Del Career Connection - Mid-Del Technology Center
- SOAR Tech Prep - Metro Technology Center
- EDUCATE Tech Prep - Caddo-Kiowa Technology Center
- Red River Tech Prep - Red River Technology Center
- Redlands/Canadian Valley Tech Prep Consort - Redlands Community College
- Southwest Ok Tech Prep Consortium - Great Plains Technology Center
- 21st Century Tech Prep-Atoka/Durant - Kiamichi Technology Center-Durant
- 21st Century Tech Prep-Pontotoc - Pontotoc Technology Center
- Mid-America School-to-Work Partners - Mid-America Technology Center
- Southern OK Educational Consortium - Southern Oklahoma Technology Center
- Region 9 Tech Prep - Kiamichi Technology Center - Talihinia
- Region 10 Tech Prep Partners - Indian Capitol Technology Center
- Region 11 Tech Prep - Northeast Technology Center
[edit] Alliance
To fullfill the articulation agreement of the Perkins Legislation Oklahoma uses the Cooperative Alliance Project. In Alliances, colleges and technology centers voluntarily seek approval of all existing cooperative agreements from their respective state agencies. While each technology center establishes a primary partnership with one college, other existing agreements from “secondary” college partners are also honored in the alliance process. Through these alliances, all students (high school and adult) in cooperative CTE programs who meet technical admission requirements are eligible to receive dual college credit as they complete their program’s courses.
[edit] Alliance Partners
- Bacone College
- Cameron University
- Carl Albert State College
- Coffeyville Community College
- Conners State College
- Cowley County Community College
- Eastern Oklahoma State College
- Murray State College
- Northeastern Oklahoma College
- Northern Oklahoma College
- Oklahoma City Community College
- Oklahoma Panhandle State University
- Oklahoma Wesleyan College
- Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee
- Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City
- Redlands Community College
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Rogers State University
- Rose State College
- Seminole State College
- St. Gregory's University
- Tulsa Community College
- Western Oklahoma State College
[edit] External links
- Oklahoma Tech Prep homepage
- Oklahoma Cooperative Alliance Project
- OK Tech Prep Blog
- Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education
- Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
[edit] See also
- List of school districts in Oklahoma
- List of private schools in Oklahoma
- List of colleges and universities in Oklahoma
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| Autry • Caddo-Kiowa • Canadian Valley • Central • Chisolm • EOC • Francis Tuttle • Gordon Cooper • Great Plains • Green Country • High Plains • Indian Capital • Kiamichi • Meridian • Metro • Mid-America • Mid Del • Moore Norman • Northeast •Northwest • Pioneer • Pontotoc • Red River • Southern • Southwest • Tri County • Tulsa Tech • Wes Watkins • Western |
