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Family and Consumer Sciences Program
Worksite Learning Information
WHY DO WE OFFER WORKSITE LEARNING IN
CENTRAL VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT?
Because we want students to be able to extend the learning from their
high school course work that supports their post-secondary directions in a real work environment.
What does that mean? Excerpts from the Washington State Work-Based Learning Manual and Guidelines follow. Based on WAC 392-410-314, they are auditable.
Work-based learning comprises a range of activities and instructional strategies designed to assist K–12 students in developing or fulfilling their individual career and educational plans. Work-based learning experiences connect knowledge and skills obtained in the classroom to those needed outside the classroom.
A worksite learning experience occurs at a qualified worksite outside the classroom and is intended to link the student’s work experiences with classroom learning and their educational and/or career goals. WAC indicates alignment with the student’s High School and Beyond Plan.
Cooperative worksite learning activities are those that occur once a student has gained the entry-level knowledge and skills necessary to be relatively independent in the workplace and are generally paid experiences. Students receive transcripted credit for cooperative worksite learning, earned only if the cooperative work-based learning experience is a direct extension of a qualifying course taken either concurrently with the WBL experience or taken in a prior school term.
Appropriate worksite placement is coordinated by a Work-Based Learning Coordinator after screening of student’s abilities and the worksite’s qualifications and adheres to a Worksite Learning Agreement and Worksite Learning Plan.
Prior to placing a student in the worksite and before a district can claim funding for the student’s participation in the experience, four requirements must be met:
1. The Work-Based Learning Coordinator must provide a program orientation to the worksite supervisor.
2. There must be a completed Worksite Learning Plan on file signed by the student, coordinator, and worksite supervisor.
3. There must be a Worksite Learning Agreement on file signed by the student, parent/guardian, coordinator, and worksite supervisor.
4. The Work-Based Learning Coordinator must ensure that the student has received a new employee orientation to the worksite by the Worksite Supervisor.
Following student placement:
1. Site time documentation (COOPERATIVE: 360 hours per 1.0 credit) BEFORE credit may be allocated
2. Visitation and evaluation: 2 (two) per transcripted grading period
3. Updated Learning Plan: minimum of once each 180 hours or as goals are attained
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