What Is Transformations 2000?

Transformations 2000 (T2000) is a comprehensive, technical training program for adult workers consisting of 490 hours of instruction. It is a success-oriented, flexible, multidiscipline curriculum that develops basic skills in technical literacy. The program's emphasis is on mathematics and science with a contextual, hands-on approach. Transformations 2000 is offered through a community college workforce development program in partnership with local employers.

As a workforce development program, funding for Transformations 2000 may be possible through a local business consortium, economic and/or workforce development grants, Welfare-to-Work, or the JTPA.

Target Audience

• Adults who are unemployed or underemployed, laid off, or displaced
• Adults who have not been successful in past academic pursuits
• Adults who have an interest in technology but lack a fundamental understanding of the science principles on which technology is based
• Adults who are contextual learners

Role of business and industry partners

• Serve on program advisory committee
• Provide participant enrollment counseling
• Provide career awareness information
• Provide technical or human relations employees to serve as instructors
• Provide consortium funding
• Employ qualified participants

About the Transformations 2000 curriculum

• Interdisciplinary-providing knowledge and skills in various technical areas along with a solid academic foundation.
• Broadly based-built on strong technical fundamentals that are essential to the acquisition of new knowledge and skills as technology changes.
• Systems oriented-integrating knowledge of subunits of a process or device to deal effectively with the whole unit.
• Contextual-significant hands-on training that emphasizes general technical principles and applications of scientific and technical concepts.
• National skill standards infused throughout the curriculum using Integrated Curriculum Standards with emphasis on communicating effectively, solving problems and thinking skillfully, working as a team member, and managing resources.

Transformations 2000 objectives

• Prepare unemployed or underemployed adults to reenter the workforce at entry-level positions
• Enable adult workers to understand and apply systems concepts in today's high-performance workplaces
• Prepare adults to successfully participate in employer-sponsored occupational training programs
• Prepare adults to successfully participate in postsecondary workforce development training
• Prepare adults to enter certificate or associate degree programs

How is Transformations 2000 different?

• Hands-on learning
• Success-oriented environment and positive reinforcement
• Use of technology as a problem-solving tool
• Simulated work environment
• Enhancement of thinking skills
• Attention to participant learning styles
• Cohort learning environment
• Wide variety of occupations

Program Adaptability

• A bridge to certificate or associate degree programs
• A retraining program for individuals that includes technical literacy and the application of technology to industrial occupations directly related to local area employment needs
• Program serves special populations such as women, displaced workers, welfare-to-work recipients, manufacturing workers, and other specialized groups
• Adaptable to correctional facilities

ICS explanation: A statement for performance that is a synthesis of expectations from employability, occupational, and academic perspectives is called an Integrated Curriculum Standard (ICS). ICSs synthesize national standards from academic, business/industry, and employability areas around key topics for infusion throughout the content of the curriculum.

To obtain more information about Transformations 2000, send e-mail to T2000@cord.org or call (800) 972-2766.