Work-Based Learning Programs

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Work-Based Learning Programs

• Susan Gubing
• School/Industry Coordinator
• Smithtown Schools

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KNOCKS ON TEENS WORKING

• Work too many hours.
• Work interferes with academic performance.
• Teen takes fewer courses.
• Dead-end jobs.
• Lower g.p.a.
• Teens have too much spending money.
• A car becomes 1 goal.

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Benefits to the Students

• Career Direction
• Employment Getting Skills
• Job Success Skills
• Path to higher education.
• Links school learning to work.
• Opportunity to develop skills not normally
  developed in class, i.e. leadership,
  decision-making.

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Benefits to the Faculty

• Bridge to work world
• Update knowledge
• Resources for guest speakers
• Donations or sponsorship

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Benefits to Community

• Productive Citizens
• Higher quality of living.
• Less social problems.
• Trained workforce.

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Benefits to the Businesses

• Trained workforce.
• Higher quality of employees.
• Input into school curriculum.
• Opportunity to give back to community.

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PURPOSES OF WORK-BASED LEARNING

• Obtain workplace skills.
• Obtain knowledge of work world.
• Interact with people of all ages and backgrounds.
• Explore career paths.

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Work-Based Goals

• Equip the student with employability skills,
  career awareness and the framework to make mature
  decisions about future education and employment.
• Encourage the student to develop positive
  self-esteem, respect for others, independence and
  strive for personal excellence.
• Provide the student with one or more work-based
  learning experiences.

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DO NOT Let Your Program Become...

• A dumping ground for immature students.
• A Get out of school early program.
• An easy way to make money.

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Cooperative Work Experience Programs for the 21st
Century

• Is for all students.
• Provides transferable skills for a variety of
  work experience opportunities.
• Is a mixture of on-the-job experiences paid,
  non-paid, mentoring, entrepreneurship.

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Which Students Do You Wish to Serve?

• Talented and Gifted
• Learning Disabled
• At Risk
• Diversified
• Adults
• Physically Handicapped

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NYS Approved Work-Based Learning Programs
Cooperative Work Experience (Diversified Co-op) CEIP Career Exploration Internship Program
General Education Work Experience Work Experience and Career Exploration program WECEP
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Comparison of Programs
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All programs must be registered with the NYS
Education Department
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Coordinator of Work-based Learning Programs for
Career Awareness

• Requirements
• (1) The extension shall authorize the candidate
  to coordinate work-based learning programs for
  career awareness, such as programs providing
  extended shadowing experiences, the General
  Education Work Experience and Career Exploration
  Program (GEWEP), and the Work Experience and
  Career Exploration Program (WECEP).(i) The
  candidate shall hold a valid provisional,
  permanent, initial or professional certificate
  for classroom teaching service authorizing
  instruction in career and technical
  education.(ii) The candidate shall complete a
  program registered pursuant to section 52.2
  1(b)(4)(vi) of this Title, or its
  equivalent.(iv) The candidate shall have
  completed 300 clock hours of work experience
  outside of classroom teaching.

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Coordinator of Work-based Learning Programs for
Career Development

• Requirements
• (1) The extension shall authorize the candidate
  to coordinate work-based learning programs for
  career development, such as the Cooperative
  Occupation Education Work Experience Program
  (COOP), the Career Exploration Internship Program
  (CEIP), programs of youth-run enterprises, and
  internship and youth apprenticeship/pre-apprentice
  ship programs.(i) The candidate shall hold a
  valid provisional, permanent, initial or
  professional certificate for classroom teaching
  service authorizing instruction in career and
  technical education.(ii) The candidate shall
  complete a program registered pursuant to section
  52.2 1(b)(4)(vi) of this Title, or its
  equivalent.(iii) The candidate shall have
  completed 600 clock hours of work experience
  outside of teaching in the classroom teaching
  service.

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Community-based Vocational Education Programs
(CBVEP)

• In addition to the Fair Labor Standards Act
  requirements, there are specific guidelines that
  the U.S. Departments of Education and Labor have
  jointly developed for school districts to use
  when providing non-paid, community-based
  vocational education/training programs for
  students with disabilities. Components should be
  designed as a continuum of learning and permit
  students age 14 and above to engage in
• Vocational exploration for up to 5 hours
• Vocational assessment for up to 90 hours and
• Vocational training for up to 120 hours.

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CBVEP

• Ideally, upon completing one, all, or any
  combination of the above program components,
  depending upon the students needs, he/she would
  be prepared to move into one the paid work-based
  programs, or obtain regular employment, or a
  supported-employment position upon graduation.
  Options will vary, depending on student
  experiences and abilities.
• For further information about community-based
  vocational education programs for students with
  disabilities, contact Nancy Lauria, 518-474-7566,
  New York State Education Department, Office of
  Vocational and Educational Services for
  Individuals with Disabilities, Room 1609, One
  Commerce Plaza, Albany, New York 12234.

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Answers to our Questions.

• aschilli_at_mail.nysed.gov
• For further information about these programs,
  specific program guidelines, and registration
  forms, contact Tony Schilling, Coordinator of
  Experiential/Work-based Learning, New York State
  Education Department, Room 320EB, Albany, New
  York 12234
• 518-474-4486.

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Essential Elements of Programs

• Work-based experience related to career goals.
• In-school related training support.
• Experience supervised by adult.

• Legal employment and safe environment.
• Planned agenda of learning at the work-site.
• Evaluation of students in-school and
  out-of-school performance.

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Cooperative Work Experience

• Job relates to career goals.
• Student takes related class(s).
• Regents credit(s)awarded for graduation sequence.
• Written training plan.
• Exceptions to the labor law regarding hours and
  types of employment.
• NYS Certification required for coordinator.

School
Work
Partnership
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Comparison of Programs
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Comparison of Programs
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Cooperative Work Experience

• Any CTE teacher may operate a Cooperative Work
  Experience Program in his/her own discipline.
• Business
• Technology
• Home and Careers
• Health
• 2004 Must have 2 certification courses.

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Career Development Learning Standards

• Standard 1 Career Development
• Students will be knowledgeable about the world of
  work, explore career options, and relate
• personal skills, aptitudes, and abilities to
  future career decisions.
• Standard 2 Integrated Learning
• Students will demonstrate how academic knowledge
  and skills are applied in the workplace and other
  settings.
• Standard 3a Universal Foundation Skills
• Students will demonstrate mastery of the
  foundation skills and competencies essential for
  success in the workplace. And
• Standard 3b Career Majors
• Students who choose a career major will acquire
  the career-specific technical knowledge/skills
  necessary to progress toward gainful employment,
  career advancement, and success in postsecondary
  programs.

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Career Plan

• CAREER PLAN as prescribed in these learning
  standards is intended to promote exploration and
  research into broad career areas of interest to
  individual students.
• Basic principles of career planning such as
  decision-making, self-evaluation, and goal
  setting have been integrated within the sample
  tasks. It is not the intent of these learning
  standards to limit options or narrowly define the
  educational preparation of students.