The Work-Based Learning Handbooks are intended to assist teachers, employers, and students in planning and participating in the following Career and Technical Education events:

• Industry speakers in technology classrooms
• Job shadowing
• Industry tours
• Mentoring partnerships
• Job-site internship opportunities.

Each of the above four categories has a separate handbook for teachers, students and employer/company contacts. Materials and topics covered in the handbooks are as follows:

• Teacher Handbooks - Offers materials and insights for structuring classroom presentations that will prepare students for this event, forms, and procedures for each presentation.
• Student Handbooks - Offers materials on conduct, legal issues, questions to ask at the event, and suggestions on how to document their experience and follow-up.
• Employer Handbooks - Informs employers about Child Labor Laws and other legal information including forms, tips on how to present to and engage high school-age students, monitoring and evaluation of student and industry participation, and payroll documentation.

The Work-Based Learning Handbooks have been a collaboration between Seattle Public Schools' Department of Career and Technical Education and the Federally funded Departments of Education's Challenge Grant and Department of Labor's ITC Grant. Individual credit for this collaborative work must be given to the following people in the SPS Department of Career and Technical Education and the Challenge / ITC Grant office for the creation and implementation of these handbooks:

• Writers: Barbara Jackson, Catherine Unseth, Cecilia Alvarez ,and Siphia Ung
• Editors: Patsy Ethridge-Neal, Shepherd Siegel, Catherine Unseth, and Mike Donlin
• Transcriber: Robyn Redfield
• Web Design: Linda Bakken and Cecilia Alvarez

The following handbooks are available for use by those interested in creating a program patterned after ACT in their school district or school.

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Classroom Speakers Handbooks

• Speaker Handbook
• Teacher/Student Handbook

Mentoring Handbook

• Mentoring Handbook

Job Shadowing Handbooks

• Teacher Handbook Updated 02/13/08
• Employer Handbook Updated 02/13/08
• Student Handbook Updated 02/13/08

Internship Handbooks

• Teacher/Coordinator Handbook - Updated 02/01/08
• Worksite Supervisor Handbook- Updated 01/22/08
• Student Handbook - Updated 02/01/08

Forms

• Assumption of Risk
• Contacts-visits checklist
• Medical Info-waiver Sample
• Employer Program Evaluation
• Forms Coversheet
• Learning Agreement and Evaluation-rev
• Medical Info-waiver
• Progress Notes
• Site Agreement, rev
• Site Agreement-Sample
• Student evaluation of worksite
• Student information
• Student parent school agreement 1-rev
• Student parent school agreement-sample,rev
• Time Report-rev
• Time Report-sample2
• WBL Internship Forms listing
• Worksite safety checklistsample-rev

Appendices

• Bibliography
• Career Pathways
• Working with Teens
• Request for Criminal History Information Procedures & Forms
• Non-agricultural Employment of Minors