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ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s School of Education offers the Work Based Learning Coordinator Advanced Certificate to teachers and eligible candidates working with ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ to provide structured learning experiences for ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½. The focus of this work is in assisting ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ to develop broad, transferable skills for postsecondary education and the workplace. This extension to your teaching certification enables you to place ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ in a variety of work-based learning activities such as career exploration, internships, cooperative work experience, and community-based work experience programs.
Schools that offers a NYS approved career and technical education program, or are preparing for the Career Development and Occupational Studies commencement credential will want to invest in having a certified Work Based Learning Coordinator at the helm of such a program!
ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Our Program
Candidates will patriciate in a fully online, asynchronous, 2-course program that includes paid work experience outside the classroom in tandem with your role, with coursework delivered fully online. Essential components of the program focus on:
- Workforce Readiness
- Advisory Boards
- Career Assessment and Career Plans
- Employability Skills
- Employer’s Memorandum of Agreement
- Student Assessment
Coursework taken will include:
- SED 211 – Work Based Learning: Organization and Structure
- SED 212 – Work Based Learning: Operation and Supervision
New York State Certification
The successful completion of two on-line courses, SED 211 - Work-Based Learning Program: Organization and Structure, (3 s.h.), and SED 212 - Work-Based Learning Program: Operation and Supervision, (3 s.h.), which can be taken in either order, will lead to ONE of the following extensions to a New York state teacher's certification:
- Coordinator of Work-based Learning Programs for Career Awareness – for ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ with initial/professional certification in any area of Adolescence 7-12, Students with Disabilities 5-9 or 7-12, or provisional/permanent certification in School Counseling
- Coordinator of Work-based Learning Programs for Career Development – for ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ with initial/professional certification in Family and Consumer Sciences or Business and Marketing Education.
The work based learning certification extension enables educators to place and supervise ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ in off-campus training and educational sites.