Career Education Internship Program

Coordinator of Work-Based Learning Programs Certification Program

This Coordinator of Work-Based Learning Programs Extension to your teaching certification will enable you to place students in a variety of work-based learning activities such as career exploration internships and cooperative and community-based work experience programs. Three hundrend hours of documented, paid or volunteer work experience outside the classroom is a prequisite. Completing all requirements prepares you to apply to NYSED for this extension:

BUS 574 Work Based Learning - Organization of your Program

This is the first of two courses that, when successfully completed, enable you to apply for an extension to your New York State Teacher Certification and allow you to place students in a variety of work based learning experiences including, internships, community based work experiences and cooperative work experiences. Topics include: Cooperative Education as a plan of instruction, qualifications, roles, and duties of Work-Based Learning coordinators, making students job-hunt ready and interview smart, decreasing dropout rates with Work-Based Learning, aligning Career and Technical Education with technical skills, evaluation of Work-Based Learning programs, laws governing the employment of minors in NYS. This course is offered during the summer, online in conjunction with BUS 575.

Prerequisite: Valid New York State certification.

BUS 575 Work Based Learning - Operating your Program

This is the second of two courses that, when successfully completed, enable you to apply for an extension to your New York State Teacher Certification and allow you to place students in a variety of work based learning experiences including, internships, community based work experiences and cooperative work experiences. Topics include: implementation of Work-Based Learning programs, structuring cooperative plans, development of steering committee & advisory board, student selection & placement, legal & illegal aspects of Work-Based Learning programs, work-site & training station selection plan, cooperative program documentation, as well as student preparation in sexual harassment & workplace safety training, integrating Career-Technical Student Organizations, techniques for effective supervision, program promotion, review, & accountability measures. This course is offered during the summer, online in conjunction with BUS 574.

Prerequisite: BUS 574 Work Based Learning - Organization of your Program.