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Career and Technical Education

Work-Based Learning Handbooks

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.

Links followed by pdf lead to documents viewable by get reader

Classroom Speakers Handbooks

Mentoring Handbook

Job Shadowing Handbooks

Internship Handbooks

Forms

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