Welcome to the September 2006 Agenda!

Thursday, September 28, 2006

and DACUM

SHOWCASE

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Doubletree Hotel, 1150 9^th Street, Modesto

AGENDA

Approximate Time	Topic(s)	Presenter(s)
10:00 a.m.	Introductions	Gary Mendenhall, Chair, California Community Colleges Central Region Consortium
10:15 a.m.	Overview & History of the WorkKeys Initiative Locally & Regionally	George Boodrookas Dean of Community & Economic Development, Modesto Junior College
	Connection to the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley	George Boodrookas
	Outcomes of the California Community College System (Chancellor’s) Office Grant	Judith Monast Director of Operations, Modesto Junior College
	Stanislaus Alliance Vision for WorkKeys and the Work Ready Certificate	William Bassitt CEO, Stanislaus Alliance
	KeyTrain as a Training Tool in the Non-Credit Curriculum	George Boodrookas and Judith Monast
	Opportunities for Future Funding	George Boodrookas
11:10 a.m.	Overview of DACUM	Juliet Atkins Director, Regional Health Occupations Resource Center, Hartnell College
	Use of DACUM in the Allied Health Curriculum at Hartnell College	Juliet Atkins
12 noon	Networking Lunch
12:45 p.m.	The New National WorkKeys Certificate	Tom Kilijanek Western Region Representative for ACT WorkKeys
	The Kentucky Model for WorkKeys / DACUM	Tom Kilijanek
	A Community College Model of WorkKeys / DACUM	John Means Dean of Community Advancement, El Camino College
2:00 p.m.	Adjourn – Have a safe trip home!

NO COST! There is NO REGISTRATION FEE! A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided to participants at no cost by the Central Region Consortium.

REGISTER online at http://www.crconsortium.com . Select the Events/Registration link from the home page to view the REGISTRATION link.

REGISTRATION CONTACT: Sue Clark, Coordinator, California Community College Central Region Consortium. Email: clarks@yosemite.cc.ca.us. Telephone: 209.575.6915

TRAVEL DIRECTIONS: Take Highway 99 to Modesto. Take the CA-132/Maze Boulevard exit. Turn east onto L Street. Continue down L Street to the hotel.

PARKING: Park in the multilevel garage at 9^th Street and L Street, across from the hotel. Parking is FREE with HOTEL VALIDATION. Otherwise, parking is $5 per day.

LODGING: To secure overnight lodging at the Modesto Doubletree Hotel, call 209-526-6000. State rate, based upon availability, is $84 per night. Single Occupancy rate, based upon availability, is $110. We do not have a room block for this event. Individuals are responsible to secure their own lodging, as needed.

TO LEARN MORE, go to:

http://www.act.org/workkeys

is a comprehensive workforce development system designed to help individuals develop better workplace skills and to help employers make better hiring and training decisions. Work Keys measures eight foundational workplace skills:

	Applied Mathematics
	Applied Technology
	Business Writing Skill
	Listening
	Locating Information
	Observation
	Reading for Information
	Teamwork

In the NEWS! The Modesto Bee, Modesto, Ca., May 30, 2006

The "Keys" to a Job

Resumes can exaggerate the truth. People can charm their way through an interview. But test scores usually don't lie, and some valley employers are hoping a new testing program will help to pinpoint the most qualified applicants for jobs. Here is how it works: High school students or adult job seekers take a job skills assessment test and are issued a Work Ready Certificate based on their results. The WorkKeys tests are being used in communities across the country and have been proposed in some states as a requirement for all high school students.

DACUM is an acronym for Developing A CurriculUM. The process was first introduced to help technical college faculty develop training curricula for business and industry. DACUM has been enhanced over the years and is now one of the most popular small group methods of occupational analysis. The basic characteristics of the DACUM philosophy are:

Curriculum needs to include real-world preparation for an occupation.
An occupation can most effectively be described in terms of successfully performed job tasks or competencies.
The expert worker is the best source for recognizing and describing job tasks.