Work-based Learning Linda O’Connor ∙ Sept. 22, 2014

Work-Based Learning A coordinated, coherent sequence of experiences designed to provide students with real-world learning through partnerships with local business and industry.

Goals Career Awareness (field trips, career days) Career Exploration (journals, job shadow) Career Preparation ( school based enterprise) Career Technical Skills (internships, pre- apprenticeship) Career Implementation (apprenticeship – employment)

Work-based Learning Guest SpeakersIndustry Tours Service LearningCo-ops Job ShadowInternships Pre-apprenticeships Apprenticeships

OWT Strategic Framework Identify businesses most urgent job needs Align the skills needs of employers with the training offerings of the education system Reform Ohio’s workforce delivery system

3.2 million high school students work some kind of job - summer, part-time or full-time. This is not the majority: 71 percent of high school students do not work.do not work Key to engagement = industry partnerships High School Students

Apprenticeships Anyone interested in getting a foot in the door of a skilled craft or trade. A structured, formal way to gain skills on the job. Always paid. Combines on-the-job training with classroom instruction. Registered apprenticeships are for aged 16 and over.

Change Old Perception Dirty Hard Work Long Hours Low Pay New Reality Cleaner/Safer More efficient/Less Hours Technology Higher Pay

Industry Partnerships Industry can partner with Secondary Career Technical Programs (advisory boards, pre- apprenticeships programs, project-based learning). Work Based Learning offers the hands-on, project- based opportunities that create career pathways. We will cover 4 success models that achieve these results.

Advisory Committees All Career-Technical programs are required to have an active Industry Advisory Committee Guidelines to creating or enhancing an industry-driven advisory committee: education.ohio.gov/Topics/Career- Tech/Apprenticeships-and-Internshipseducation.ohio.gov/Topics/Career- Tech/Apprenticeships-and-Internships

Job Shadowing Career Exploration – allows a student to follow an employee on the job to experience real, day-to-day work Participants are unpaid Short-term observation (exposure to work)

Internships Short periods – 6 weeks to 9 months and sometimes provides school credit. Actively engaged in work and supervised by mentor Paid or unpaid

Early or Advanced Placement Students are released from school to work at a job in their Career Pathway during the Senior Year: Typically work a minimum of hrs Must meet schools placement requirements Sign Instructional Agreement between Employer, Parent and School

Pre-Apprenticeship Program Program that teaches basic technical and job-readiness skills for a designated apprentice occupation or sector to prepare participants for Registered Apprenticeship training.

Apprentice Ohio State Apprenticeship Council Definition Person at least 16 yrs. of age, except where a higher minimum age is fixed by law, who is participating in a registered apprenticeship program to learn a skilled occupation, pursuant to a registered apprenticeship agreement

Recommended Path Fall/Spring of Junior Year – Job Shadowing Experiences Summer between Junior/Senior Year –Internship with a mentor Senior Year –Early Placement –Pre-Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship Models #1 Miami Valley Career Center Application Process Two-week rotation (40 hour work week) Half Days Option through advanced placement Upper Valley Career Center 144 hours/Senior Year Follow-up training beyond graduation Monitored by the apprenticeship coordinator Externships for the instructors

Apprenticeship Models #2-3 Mid-East Career Center, Washington Cty, and Swiss Hills (Pioneer Pipe) Direct entry to the union (good pay with benefits) OJT and Credentials Apprenticeship 2000 Georgia/North and South Carolina Students interviewed and offered job 10 th If they complete program and graduate

Apprenticeship Models #4 Internships Pioneer Career Center Industry partnership with specific employers to offer 9 month paid internships 60% of students get hired from internships Similar to apprenticeships with expected learning outcomes Internships Monitored by the school to ensure students are receiving multiple skills Can become a formalized pre- apprenticeship program

Current Initiatives AYES – Automotive Youth Education Systems NCCER – Construction SkillsUSA Career-Based Intervention Programs

HB 107 Internships Career Exploration Internship Program is effective , with appropriation through the Development Services Agency and only available through June 25, 2017 Appropriates $1 million to fund the grants from proceeds of the upfront license fees paid for casino facilities authorized under the Ohio Constitution.

Authorizes Grants for businesses that employ up to 3 high school students in career exploration internships/year, 50% of the wages paid to the student up to a $5,000 Eligible to attend school in Ohio (ages ) or enrolled in grade 11 or 12 and must employ them for 200 hours (20 weeks)

Application Businesses apply to the Development Services Agency before the start of the internship and must include a brief description of the internship and a signed statement by the student intern describing the student's career aspirations. ORC

Contact Nicole Bent Local Government Incentives Section Supervisor Office of Strategic Business Investments Business Services Division 28th floor phone: fax:

MEP Ohio Manufacturing Extension Partnership Office of Technology Investments : James. Ohio Development Services Agency 77 South High Street, 28th Floor Columbus, Ohio ( ) or (800)

OhioMeansInternships.com (post-secondary) Ohio Board of Regents Grants to higher education and their partners Internships & Co-ops: Discusses the Difference

OBR Contact OhioMeansInternships.com Zach Waymer Director, Experiential Learning and Outreach (614) 728-

Models education.ohio.gov/Topics/Career- Tech/Apprenticeships-and-Internshipseducation.ohio.gov/Topics/Career- Tech/Apprenticeships-and-Internships Forms, templates, and contacts for the models discussed today If you have a program we can highlight, let me know (my contact information)

Ohio Department of Education Contacts Office of Career-Technical Education Linda O’Connor, Assistant Director – Mike Cowles, Consultant –

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