Full Virginia IET Checklist

The Checklist is adapted from Virginia’s IET Planning Tool and from the IET Design Camp Toolkit developed through the American Institutes for Research (2020).

How to use the IET Checklist

  • The IET Checklist is a step-by-step guide to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate an IET program. Each item on the checklist is a clickable link to resources and tools to assist the team in completing each step.
  • The checklist is designed to inform the IET Planning tool, a required planning document for AEFLA, IELCE, and PluggedInVA IETs.
  • This checklist is designed for administrators, instructors, and partners to organize the necessary tools they need to collaborate in the planning and implementation of successful IET programs that prepare learners for high-wage jobs and higher levels of education and training to continue their journeys along a career pathway.
  • Use the entire checklist for a big-picture plan, and explore the checklist sections below for more detailed guidance

Checklist Contents

The PluggedInVA model

The IET Checklist items are appropriate for ALL IETs, including PluggedInVA. The PluggedInVA page features resources specific to the PluggedInVA model.

PluggedInVA

Part 1. IET Self-assessment

As a foundational part of IET planning, the IET self-assessment checklist provides a structure for researching and identifying IET planning needs, collecting information on how an IET might address needs, and preparing to engage with partners to design and implement an IET.

Identify the need for an IET.

Building Opportunities: IET Guide IELCE Self-assessment Tool

Draft a vision statement for how an IET might address the need.

Mission and Vision Statement: methods and examples Sample NonProfit Mission Statements

Identify stakeholders.

Virginia CareerWorks: Local Workforce Investment Boards COABE Article: Engaging Employers to Close the Skills Gap

Interview stakeholders.

ProLiteracy Workplace Literacy Guide

Locate relevant state IET policies.

Virginia Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education Virginia Combined Plan 2020-2023

Research local or regional labor market information, business needs, and career pathway options.

Virginia Labor Market Information, VirginiaWorks Community Profiles, VirginiaWorks Review plans of local Workforce Development Boards Research training needs and workforce services at VCCS

Identify appropriate and promising IET models and practices.

CLASP: Models for Career Pathways at Every Skill Level

Identify local or regional learner needs.

Community Profiles for Educational Attainment and Employment

Based on the findings, revise the vision statement.

How to Write a Vision Statement

Part II. IET Program Planning and Design

This checklist focuses on collaboration between team members, partners, and stakeholders to design a robust, supportive, and comprehensive IET that fulfills the needs of learners and all stakeholders. Use the tools to outline your team, their roles, a plan for communication, staffing, timelines for planning activities, the IET structure itself, and the data and resources needed to evaluate its implementation and impacts along the way.

Assemble the IET team.

LINCS IET Design Toolkit, p. 32 Moving Pathways Forward, Brief, pp. 3-4

Develop the IET needs statement.

LINCS IET Design Toolkit, pp. 32-37

Develop a team purpose statement.

How to Create a Team Purpose Statement in 3 Steps, and Why

Identify partners, and define partner roles.

Career Pathways Toolkit, Workforce GPS - Element One: Build Cross-Agency Partnerships LINCS IET Design Toolkit, pp. 32-37

Collaborate with partners to develop and sign memoranda of understanding.

Collaboration Toolkit: Creating an MOU, Colorado Nonprofit Assoc. Career Pathways Toolkit, Workforce GPS - Element One: Build Cross-Agency Partnerships

Revise the purpose statement with partners, if necessary.

How to Create a Team Purpose Statement in 3 Steps, and Why

Develop a communication plan.

LINCS IET Design Toolkit, pp. 39-40

Identify funding sources.

Virginia Adult Education Grants and Funding

Create an IET timeline for development and delivery.

Virginia IET Planning Tool (scroll for document link) Career Pathways Toolkit, Workforce GPS - Element Three: Design Education and Training Programs

Plan for staffing.

LINCS IET Design Toolkit, pp. 37 - 48 (Consider instructional models, learner supports, and coordination)

Identify and secure needed materials for instructors to plan and deliver content.

Contextualizing Adult Education Instruction to Career Pathways LINCS IET Practices with Example IET Practices, including program needs

Develop structures for co-planning.

LINCS IET Design Toolkit, pp. 32-53

Build the IET structure.

Scroll down for the Virginia IET Planning Tool LINCS IET Design Toolkit, pp. 37 - 42

Develop an IET evaluation plan.

LINCS IET Design Toolkit, pp. 49 - 53

Part III. Learner Experience

Use this checklist and the linked resources to plan for a comprehensive recruitment, intake, and orientation process; to incorporate strategies to support motivation and retention; and to identify and provide wrap-around services to help learners persist.

Determine learner eligibility requirements for supportive services.

Virginia CareerWorks: Workforce Services Virginia Workforce Connection

Identify effective recruitment and marketing plans.

LINCS IET Design Toolkit Best Practices for Marketing to Adult and Non-Traditional Students, a Report

Plan an orientation.

Intake and Enrollment in the ABE Classroom, WV

Identify and secure access to student supports needed for success.

Federal Funding for Support Services, CLASP Virginia CareerWorks

Identify and support any technology needed for success in the IET, ensuring all learners have appropriate and easy access to what they need.

Integrating Digital Tools for Adult Learners: Four Critical Factors

Identify a college and career navigator.

College and Career Navigator Trainer Manual, NCTN

Develop plans for employment placement.

Virginia Workforce Connection

Create plans for learner retention.

New England Literacy, Adult Learner Persistence

Develop a plan to ensure access to equitable learning environments for all eligible learners.

National Coalition for Literacy, 2021 Memo on Access and Inclusion Culturally Responsive Teaching: Examples, Strategies, and Activities for Success

Develop learner follow-up plans to identify post-IET needs and to record successes.

LINCS IET Design Toolkit, pp. 40-43

Part IV. Instruction

The checklist and resources here will support your instructional design and guide the process of integrating and contextualizing instruction across all essential components of the IET program.

Identify occupational skills and knowledge needed for success.

NYSED/CUNY Career Kits O*Net Online Career Clusters

Identify workforce preparation activities that learners will need to succeed in and beyond the IET.

Employability Skills Framework, OCTAE Teaching Skills that Matter, LINCS

Identify the academic skills that learners will need to succeed in and beyond and IET.

Teaching Skills that Matter, LINCS College and Career Readiness Standards English Language Proficiency Standards for Adult Education

Create a single set of learning objectives to integrate and contextualize instruction across the three components.

Developing a Basic Skills Curriculum for IET LINCS IET Design Toolkit, pp. 57-78

Develop integrated instructional units with sample activities that integrate the three IET components.

LINCS IET Design Toolkit, pp. 57-78 Developing a Basic Skills Curriculum for IET, Section Six

Incorporate strategies and resources for inclusive learning to expand access to all eligible learners.

Universal Design for Learning Guidelines, CAST Culturally Responsive Education: Principles and Strategies

Include supports for English learners as needed.

Supporting English Language Learners

Identify all virtual components of the IET and incorporate explicit instruction on using the tools, as well as ongoing technical supports.

The What, Why, Who, and How of Blended Learning for Adu

Part V. IET Technical Assistance and Professional Learning Community

For IET technical assistance, reach out to the Virginia Career, Technical, and Adult Education and the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. To join the IET professional learning community and network, use the buttons below to join the listserv, add your IET information to the state map, and access learning opportunities through the Event Calendar.

Contact Virginia’s Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (CTAE).

CTAE

Contact the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center (VALRC).

VALRC
IET & IELCE Network