Course Description
Planning, implementing, and directing various school-to-career transition models in education.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
In consultation with the instructor of the course, the graduate student will propose and prepare a scholarly work that demonstrates their knowledge of the course content and related policies and practices.
Athena Title
Organize and Coordin Work Prog
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in WFED 5030E or WFED 7030E
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Evaluate current trends and issues in workforce development and work-based training.
- Describe current strategies for educating the workforce in the United States and specifically Georgia.
- Discuss the economic impact of work-based education.
- Describe the workforce education policies of other countries.
- Identify and describe the steps involved in organizing a work-based learning program.
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each work-based learning program model.
- Differentiate between each work-based learning program model and their targeted population.
- Plan and develop curriculum and implementation plan for a work-based learning program model.
- Develop strategies for linking education and business/industry in a work-based learning program model.
- Describe proposed policies and/or practices needed to eliminate barriers for the successful implementation of a work-based learning program model.
Topical Outline
- Orientation to the course
- Preparing students for the future
- Federal and state legislation (Career and Technical Education; School-to-Work; Youth Apprenticeship)
- Work-based learning models
- Philosophy and purpose of work-based learning programs
- Responsibilities of a work-based learning coordinator
- Implementation of a business/industry advisory committee for a work-based learning program
- Selection and enrollment of students for a work-based learning program
- Selection and approval of work-based learning sites
- Criteria for selection and orientation of work-based learning site training supervisors
- Development of educational training agreements
- Development of educational training plans and curriculum
- Articulation of work-based learning and curriculum to post-secondary education
- Performance evaluation of students in work-based learning programs
- Legal and liability issues in work-based learning
- Marketing of work-based learning programs
- Evaluation of work-based learning programs
- Future issues and trends in work-based learning
