On Monday, I joined Gov. Paul LePage, Midcoast-area school administrators, and representatives from that region’s higher education and business communities to discuss education as an economic imperative for Maine’s Midcoast.
Category: Career & Technical
New education models, workforce preparedness discussed at Midcoast forum
ROCKLAND — Officials from Maine’s education and business worlds came together Oct. 3 to discuss the transition to a new model for public education, the role of technology in the classroom and workplace, and what’s required to equip Maine’s students with the skills they’ll need for successful careers.
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Bridging our ‘skills gap’ long-term
Maine employers from all sectors of the economy came to the Blaine House in Augusta last week with a clear message, though not the one most might have expected.
The economy is slow, but we have job openings, the employers told Gov. Paul LePage. More than 20,000 Maine people are receiving unemployment benefits, but we can’t find the workers we need, they said.
In other words, what we have in Maine isn’t only a jobs deficit. It’s a skills deficit, too. We have more available jobs in some sectors than we do workers with the skills needed to do them.
A high school more like a robotics team
By Blake Bourque
A robotics team offers students a chance to develop some of the essential skills that will make them successful in the professional world.
Building project turns focus to instruction
Mount Blue High School and Foster Technology Center have long shared a campus. But the 750-student high school and 300-student technology center have been distinct buildings with distinct identities, divided by a glass walkway.
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New bill pushes science, math education
AUGUSTA – Gov. Paul LePage signed into law this week legislation that will bolster Maine’s efforts to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education from pre-kindergarten to the post-secondary level.
Bridging the gap between math and CTE
By Rich Barratt
ROCKLAND — I teach a curriculum that’s deep in math.
From basic operations to geometry to trigonometry, math plays a big part in the machine tool industry. But as a precision machine technology instructor at Mid-Coast School of Technology, I’ve never had the proper training I need to teach the math that’s such a crucial part of the trade.
That’s where the Math-in-CTE program comes in.
Program pairs math and trades
AUGUSTA — Nearly 20 teachers of precision machining, welding, building construction and other trades have spent 10 days over the past school year paired up with middle- and high-school math teachers.
They’ve spent their time together working to more closely integrate math concepts into lessons offered by instructors at Maine’s career and technical schools.
Sanford schools work toward 2015 vision
School department’s vision and strategic plans guide Sanford’s plans for reform.
SANFORD — The Sanford School Department knows what it wants to look like in 2015, and it’s piloting a mix of new initiatives aimed at realizing a long-term vision.
Technology center engaging students, training future workforce
Students apply math and science skills in classes they find relevant at United Technologies Center in Bangor.
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