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Abstract:
This practice guide provides community colleges with five specific recommendations for supporting occupational skills training through career pathways.
Developed by the What Works Clearinghouse™ (WWC) in conjunction with an expert panel, this guide draws upon studies of interventions that include one or more of the career pathways components defined under the WIOA. It focuses on promising interventions where there is evidence of improved educational or labor market outcomes. This guide provides community colleges with five specific recommendations for supporting occupational skills training through career pathways
Benefits and Uses
This practice guide provides community colleges with five specific recommendations for supporting occupational skills training through career pathways.
- Intentionally design and structure career pathways to enable students to further their education, secure a job, and advance in employment.
- Deliver contextualized or integrated basic skills instruction to accelerate students’ entry into and successful completion of career pathways.
- Offer flexible instructional delivery schedules and models to improve credit accumulation and completion of non-degree credentials along career pathways.
- Provide coordinated comprehensive student supports to improve credit accumulation and completion of non-degree credentials along career pathways.
- Develop and continuously leverage partnerships to prepare students and advance their labor market success.
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Publication Year
2021