Navigation Alliances Students Interact Parents Coordinators Partners Education Industry News Calendar Resources Contact Us En Español	Industry Partners Tech Prep is built upon business and industry partnerships. Check out all that these tech prep business and industry partners have to offer. There will be 20,000 new job titles in the U.S. by the year 2000. America is creating more high-skill jobs, but turning out more low-skill labor. 89% of the jobs available require additional training and education after high school. Only 11% of projected new jobs will require no more than a high school diploma. Only 4 out of every 100 new jobs can be filled by people with minimal skill levels. 89% of the jobs available require additional training and education after high school. One out of four Oklahomans does not complete high school. Schools with strong Tech Prep programs report decreasing dropout rates and improved scores on achievement tests. Only 1 out of every 4 high school graduates enrolls in a four-year university; only 50% of students who elect to pursue a bachelor's degree earn one within 10 years. Community, technical, and junior colleges are now the fastest-growing and largest single segment of American higher education. However, American business is reporting a serious shortage of associate-degree graduates to meet the growing demands of employers. Big business locates near high-tech labor pools. Oklahoma's continued economic health requires graduates who are "work-ready." To be work-ready requires a different kind of preparation than that offered to students in traditional classrooms. Employer Involvement Want to be involved? Tech Prep needs employers who will be involved at levels that are correct for them. Some ways that employers can become involved include hosting field trips, participating in career fairs, making classroom presentations to students, and becoming involved in job shadowing and mentoring, sponsoring internships and co-operative learning opportunities. Tech Prep also needs employers to participate in committees and advisory councils, partnering with secondary schools, technology centers, and higher ed institutions. Work Based Learning Work-based learning includes field trips, career fairs, job shadowing, and other activities. Field Trips - Students, accompanied by appropriate sponsors from the campus, travel in groups to employer worksites to tour those worksites and hear presentations by employers and/or employees about the world of work, applications of the subjects studied in the classroom, and importance of college in preparing for success in work. Job Shadowing - A student follows an employer or an employee at a firm in the area of the students interest for a day to learn more about a particular occupation or industry. Career Fairs - Groups of students travel to a central local in which multiple employers have Tech Prep provides handbooks for educators, employers, and students and facilitates a variety of work-based learning experiences. Educators must ensure that students obtain parental consent and must also provide instruction and support for students using materials provided by Tech Prep. Last Updated: 02/28/2008

Industry Partners

Tech Prep is built upon business and industry partnerships. Check out all that these tech prep business and industry partners have to offer.

There will be 20,000 new job titles in the U.S. by the year 2000. America is creating more high-skill jobs, but turning out more low-skill labor.
89% of the jobs available require additional training and education after high school.
Only 11% of projected new jobs will require no more than a high school diploma. Only 4 out of every 100 new jobs can be filled by people with minimal skill levels.
89% of the jobs available require additional training and education after high school. One out of four Oklahomans does not complete high school.
Schools with strong Tech Prep programs report decreasing dropout rates and improved scores on achievement tests.
Only 1 out of every 4 high school graduates enrolls in a four-year university; only 50% of students who elect to pursue a bachelor's degree earn one within 10 years.
Community, technical, and junior colleges are now the fastest-growing and largest single segment of American higher education. However, American business is reporting a serious shortage of associate-degree graduates to meet the growing demands of employers.
Big business locates near high-tech labor pools.
Oklahoma's continued economic health requires graduates who are "work-ready." To be work-ready requires a different kind of preparation than that offered to students in traditional classrooms.

Employer Involvement

Want to be involved? Tech Prep needs employers who will be involved at levels that are correct for them. Some ways that employers can become involved include hosting field trips, participating in career fairs, making classroom presentations to students, and becoming involved in job shadowing and mentoring, sponsoring internships and co-operative learning opportunities. Tech Prep also needs employers to participate in committees and advisory councils, partnering with secondary schools, technology centers, and higher ed institutions.

Work Based Learning

Work-based learning includes field trips, career fairs, job shadowing, and other activities.

Field Trips - Students, accompanied by appropriate sponsors from the campus, travel in groups to employer worksites to tour those worksites and hear presentations by employers and/or employees about the world of work, applications of the subjects studied in the classroom, and importance of college in preparing for success in work.
Job Shadowing - A student follows an employer or an employee at a firm in the area of the students interest for a day to learn more about a particular occupation or industry.
Career Fairs - Groups of students travel to a central local in which multiple employers have

Tech Prep provides handbooks for educators, employers, and students and facilitates a variety of work-based learning experiences. Educators must ensure that students obtain parental consent and must also provide instruction and support for students using materials provided by Tech Prep.

Last Updated: 02/28/2008