work-based learning linda o’connor ∙ sept. 22, 2014

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

Work-based Learning(Partnering with

Secondary Schools)Pre-apprenticeships Apprenticeships

Internships Co-ops

Job Shadowing Service Learning

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

• http://www.workforce.ohio.reform

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.

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-Internships

Job Shadowing

• Career Exploration

• Participants are unpaid

• Short-term observation experience by student at the worksite (few hours to few days)…middle and high school.

Job Shadowing

• Allows a student to follow an employee on the job to experience real, day-to-day work in a specific occupation or industry.

• Primary goal is exposure to work environment

Internships

• High school or college students who want real-world experience to supplement classroom learning.

• Short-term work experience that allows a student to gain practical skills and learn about an occupation.

• Can be either paid or unpaid.

Internships• Sometimes provides school credit.

• Actively engaged in work

• Supervised by mentor

• Involves certain legal requirements (Child Labor Laws) for students under the age of 18

Early or Advanced Placement(Pre-apprenticeship)

Students are released from school to work at a job in their Career Pathway during the Senior Year:

• Typically work a minimum of 15 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.

Youth Pre-Apprenticeship

• Collaborative partnership between a school and Registered Apprenticeship sponsors that provide exposure to the work environment (e.g. YouthBuild).

• Typically for high school juniors and seniors.

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 10th

• 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 6-25-14, with appropriation 3-26-14 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 16-18) 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 122.177

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/122.177

Contact • Nicole Bent• Local Government Incentives Section

SupervisorOffice of Strategic Business InvestmentsBusiness Services Division28th floorphone: 614.644.6552fax: 614.644.5758Nicole.Bent@development.ohio.gov

MEP• Ohio Manufacturing Extension Partnership

Office of Technology Investments:

James.Ruble@development.ohio.gov

Ohio Development Services Agency77 South High Street, 28th Floor

Columbus, Ohio 43215-6108(614.466.2775)      or (800) 848-1300

• http://development.ohio.gov

MEP Centers(6 regional areas)

• MAGNET (Cleveland) – northeast• TechSolve (Cincinnati) –southwest• CIFT (Toledo) –northwest • PolymerOhio (Columbus) –central Ohio• APEG (Athens) –southeast • FastLane (Dayton) –west

Ohio’s Third Frontier(post-secondary)

• This program will reimburse up to 50 percent of the intern’s wages, or no more than $3,000. After the individual graduates, the company will have the opportunity to offer the intern full-time employment.

Third Frontier Categories• Advanced Energy;• Advanced Manufacturing;• Advanced Materials;• Bioscience;• Information Technology;• Instruments, Controls and Electronics; and• Power and Propulsion

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 WaymerDirector, Experiential Learning and Outreach

• zwaymer@regents.state.oh.us (614) 728-8858

Models• education.ohio.gov/Topics/Career-Tech/Appr

enticeships-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 – linda.OConnor@education.ohio.gov

614-644-6095

Mike Cowles, Consultant – mike.cowles@education.ohio.gov

614-466-8782

Questions

Benchmarks

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Social Media

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