class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide .title[ # _ ] .author[ ### CTE Job Postings in Wyoming ] .date[ ### Mark Perkins, Ph.D.,
University of Wyoming Dean’s Office ] --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## What is Career and Technical Education? ### Institute of Educational Sciences Definition: **Career and Technical Education (CTE)** encompasses courses and programs at both the high school and postsecondary levels. These are designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge required for specific jobs or fields of work. --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ### CTE includes training in various **job industries**:
--- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## The College of Education is working on a report examining CTE in Wyoming: - CTE Course Enrollments in Wyoming's K12 Districts - CTE Program enrollments and completions at UW and the community colleges - Industry partnerships relating to CTE programs in Wyoming's post-secondary institutions - Developing industries and job projections in Wyoming that may have CTE implications - Teacher, Faculty, and worker job openings in Wyoming relating to CTE --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## The Purpose of This Presentation - Dr. Shim and I have developed much of that report - We have some data to collect - Today, we are pleased to present our findings on CTE Job Openings: - CTE Teaching positions in Wyoming's 48 public school districts - Elementary school positions - Secondary school positions - Faculty CTE positions at Wyoming's 8 community colleges - Full-time faculty - Part-time faculty - Industry job openings related to CTE, derived from data provided to us by Lightcast - Job Types - CTE Related Industries --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## Wyoming Teacher and Faculty Dashboards - In order to understand how many teachers are needed, we need to be able to consolidate data from 48 school district job sites and 8 community colleges. - Using a data science software tool called R, we scraped this data and consolidated it into the following dashboards: - [Wyoming K12 Job Openings](https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/WYK12/) - [Wyoming Community Job Openings](https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/WY_HE_Career/) --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## About the Education Jobs Dashboards - From these websites, anyone can find a job in Wyoming's educational system in one place - We use R and AI to capture the data and classify teacher types and categories - This allows for a monitoring for certain teacher needs in the state - This includes CTE teachers! - This is refreshed weekly, so the monitoring can be longitudinal and we can track trends over time. - We store the data each week for such tracking. --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## Wyoming K-12 Teacher Jobs by Category as of Late July
--- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## Wy Higher Education Faculty Positions as of Late July
--- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## Takeaways from the job postings data - Nearly 50% of faculty needed in Wyoming's higher education system are CTE related. - It appears that there is less demand for CTE teachers in K12 at this time - There is much more to that story . . . --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ### Enrollment continues to increase in CTE secondary courses
--- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ### Even though teaching jobs are limited in CTE in Wyoming, overall FTE dropped by 100 in Wyoming despite increased enrollments
--- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## More to the Story - The decline in CTE teacher FTE suggests hiring of part-time teachers - This decline may also be explained by replacing highly qualified CTE teachers with other content area teachers - Professional Industry Certificate (PIC) teachers may also be taking up the slack - We need longitudinal data on teachers of CTE courses and their certifications- we will be looking into this --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## We Pulled Job Postings to Examine CTE Related Job Demand - Lightcast, courtesy of Governor Gordon's office via Lachelle Brant, provided us with some jobs data - Artificial Intelligence classified these jobs into CTE and non-CTE related categories. - R was able to integrate large language modeling and classify job postings into different categories - This required several iterations to train the model - **Total Job Postings**: 5,695 - **CTE-Related Job Postings**: 2,907 --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## Top Occupations (June 2024)
--- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## Summary of Top Occupations - **Registered Nurses**: 274 Unique Postings - **Retail Sales Associate**: 195 Unique Postings - **Tractor-Trailer Truck Driver**: 155 Unique Postings - **Nursing Assistant**: 152 Unique Postings - **Physician**: 117 Uniuqe Postings - **Retail Store Manager / Supervisor**: 104 Unique Postings --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## Overview of Jobs Data - The Wyoming Higher Education system has a strong demand for CTE Faculty - The K12 System seems to have less of a demand but: - The MEDIAN age PIC permit and CTE Standard License teachers is 49 years old - Our PIC license teachers' median is 45 - Our traditional CTE license holders' median age is 52 - Thus PIC teachers skew the distribution slightly - The national average for CTE teacher age is ~ 46 - The national average for all teachers is ~ 43 - The national average for teacher retirement is ~ 59 - Thus, WY CTE teachers are older than the national average and older than other WY teachers - What are the implications? --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## Retirement and Future Needs Given CTE Teacher Demographics - The total number of CTE teachers in Wyoming ~ 500 (estimate given FTE) - Given that, the number of teachers over age 52 is ~ 250 - The retirement age for most Wyoming state employees is 62 - Annual need to fill positions to keep pace: 25 jobs/year over the next 10 years - Full-time - Part-time - Any-time to fill growing need --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px
--- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## Takeaways from Industry CTE Job Openings - Many of the jobs currently available lend towards k12 level training - For example, retail sales associates could learn much in k12 business courses - Other jobs lend towards community college level training - For example, tractor trailer truck drivers - Other jobs require bachelor level training - Healthcare and nursing related professions - Finally some jobs require graduate-level training - Physicians are an example --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## Wrap-Up and Future Directions - There is strong demand for CTE related workers in Wyoming - Capturing jobs data from job posts may not truly reflect the overall demand for jobs - However, it is clear that Wyoming has a need for CTE related workers and it is clear that all the educational systems can do their part - There is much more to research including: - We need data on the change in CTE student certificates from Perkins 4 to Perkins 5 - Perkins 4: Students take 3 courses in an area and take a test - Perkins 5: Students take 2 courses - Teachers of CTE courses, their certifications, and what they teach --- background-image: url("https://marksresearch.shinyapps.io/PictureSite/_w_572f12eb/background.png") background-size:910px 700px ## The Ecosystem of CTE in Wyoming.
--- class: inverse, middle, right # Questions? ### Much Thanks to Dr. Jenna Shim, Rob Hill, WDE, WCCC, and the Governer's Office for contributing data and direction to this report!