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STEM Competencies

STEM (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills)

STEM Competencies Met by the TV / Multimedia Studio

 

RESOURCES

  • Allocates time
  • Selects relevant, goal-related activities, ranks them in order of importance, allocates time to activities, and understands, prepares, and follows schedules
  • Allocates material and facility resources
  • Acquires, stores, and distributes materials, supplies, parts, equipment, space, or final products in order to make the best use of them
  • Allocates Human Resources
  • Assesses knowledge and skills and distributes work accordingly, evaluates performance, and provides feedback.

 

INFORMATION

  • Acquires and evaluates information
  • Identifies need for data, obtains it from existing sources or creates it, and evaluates its relevance and accuracy
  • Organizes and maintains information
  • Organizes, processes, and maintains written or computerized records and other forms of information in a systematic fashion
  • Interprets and communicates information
  • Selects and analyzes information and communicates the results to others using oral, written, graphic, pictorial, or multimedia methods
  • Uses computers to process information
  • Employs computers to acquire, organize, analyze, and communicate information

 

INTERPERSONAL

  • Participates as a Member of a Team
  • Works cooperatively with others and contributes to group with ideas, suggestions, and effort
  • Teaches others
  • Helps others learn
  • Serves clients/customers
  • Works and communicates with clients and customers to satisfy their expectations
  • Exercises leadership
  • Communicates thoughts, feelings, and ideas to justify a position, encourages, persuades, convinces, or otherwise motivates an individual or groups, including responsibly challenging existing procedures, policies, or authority
  • Negotiates to arrive at a decision
  • Works toward an agreement that may involve exchanging specific resources or resolving divergent interests
  • Works with cultural diversity
  • Works well with men and women and with a variety of ethnic, social, or educational backgrounds.

 

SYSTEMS

  • Understands systems
  • Knows how social, organizational, and technological systems work and operates effectively within them
  • Monitors and corrects performance
  • Distinguishes trends, predicts impact of actions on system operations, diagnoses deviations in the function of a system/organization, and takes necessary action to correct performance

 

TECHNOLOGY

  • Selects technology
  • Judges which set of procedures, tools, or machines, including computers and their programs, will produce the desired results
  • Applies technology to task
  • Understands the overall intent and the proper procedures for setting up and operating machines, including computers and their programming systems
  • Maintains and troubleshoots technology
  • Prevents, identifies, or solves problems in machines, computers, and other technologies

 

Core Objectives and Outcomes for TV Studio and Media Center

The following is a list of the core objectives for the TV Studio and Media Center. These objectives and outcomes are generalized and cover the entire TV Studio and Media Center:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of a video production
  • Adequately perform the duties of multiple positions in the TV Studio and Media Center
  • Determine level of interest in pursuing a career in video production or broadcasting
  • Show skills in working cooperatively with other students
  • Participate in the planning phase of a video broadcast
  • Demonstrate proper use of video production equipment
  • Analyze strengths and weaknesses of a broadcast

 

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