Work-based learning programs make use of business and industry sites as part of the CACC's curriculum. The goal of work-based learning programs is to provide a smooth transition from a school environment to a work environment. Work-based learning experiences are organized so that learners acquire attitudes, skills and knowledge for work, a career and other life roles.
Content Area:
Career Opportunities: Job Shadowing, Work Experience, Cooperative Occupational Training (Co-op)
Job Shadowing
- An opportunity for students to visit and observe a person at the work site in a business or industry that is of interest to them. This usually involves one class period.
Work Experience
- Students explore a career by working in business and industry where they practice skills learned in their CACC program. These experiences can be up to four weeks in length and are unpaid.
Cooperative Occupational Training (Co-op)
- Students are placed at a work site related to the training they received in their CACC program. Students earn wages and credit. Students are required to receive one hour of instruction from a certified CTE instructor once per week. It is an opportunity to refine and enhance the skills acquired in the occupational classroom at the CACC, while earning income and transitioning into a successful competent and productive adult.
Helpful Skills:
• Students must have good attendance at the time they begin their co-op experience and will maintain good attendance.
• Students will have and continue to maintain a minimum of a "C" average in their efforts at their sending school and at the CACC
• Students will not have any disciplinary problems prior to or during their co-op experience
• Students will have completed a minimum of 50% of the instructional material in their program and where national standards or licensing is required, have earned a minimum of one license or certification.
The 10 Occupations with the fastest employment growth are: (2004-2014)
Home health aides; Network systems and data communications analysts; Medical assistants; Physician assistants; Computer software engineers; Physical therapist assistants; Dental hygenists; Dental assistants; Personal and home care aides.
Resource: Bureau of Labor Statistics, December 2005
The 10 occupations with the largest growth,
(2004-2014)
Retail salespersons; Registered nurses; Postsecondary teachers; Customer service representatives; Janitors and clearners; except maids and housekeeping clearners; Waiters and waitresses; Food preparation and serving workers; Home health aides, Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants; General and operations managers.
Resource: Bureau of Labor Statistics, December 2005
Industries with the fastest wage and salary growth, (2000-2010)
Employment services; Local government educational services; Local government, excluding education and hospitals; Offices of physicians; Full-service restaurants; Private general medical and surgical hospitals; Limited service eating places; Home health care services; Private colleges, universities, and professional schools; Management, scientific, and technical consulting services.
Resource: Bureau of Labor Statistics, December 2005
