Internship

Mr. Griffin (Instructor)

Internship

Workforce Education Internship programs are designed to assist students in their specific career focus/major areas and to help them successfully transition from school-to-career.  Students who expect to begin their careers immediately upon high school graduation as well as those who need to complete post-secondary training prior to starting a career can benefit from the program.  The structure involves a strong business partnership that links the program and its participants to current resources, information, and guidance from industry professionals.  It provides intense, competency based classroom and work site instruction specifically tailored to meet the needs of individual students.  It also fosters articulation and apprenticeship programs.

    Career Majors:

• Welding
• Business
• Child Care
• Building Trades
• Power Equipment
• Medical
• CADD
• Computers

Areas of Instruction:

• Work Ethics
• Leadership Development
• Job Seeking Skills
• Job Survival Skills
• Work Maturity Skills

In order for students to be eligible to participate in the internship program, the student must be sixteen years of age and apply for acceptance to the Internship program.   The minimum guidelines for acceptance include:

• An identified career major on file.
• Completion of at least two units and enrolled in third unit of an identified career major.
• Academic standing of at least 2.0 on a 4.0 scale.
• Acceptable attendance record as determined by the school administration.
• Written recommendation from a counselor, a teacher in the student's career major area, a teacher outside the student's career major, and two personal references from non-relatives.
• Membership in a vocational student organization that reflects the intern's career goals and enhances the intern's ability to excel in his/her chosen career focus/major area.

Participating schools:

• Hermitage
• Warren
• Woodlawn

As a participant in the internship program, the student has a certain amount of responsibility.

The students will

• report promptly to the training station on the days and hours mutually arranged with the employer.
• notify the employing coordinator well in advance when absence is unavoidable.
• cooperate with the employing supervisor and engage in the assignment as a learning experience.
• make a weekly written report to the coordinator.
• remain in the program for the entire school year.
• take part in the selection of a work station and all that is involved in maintaining a good relationship with the employer.

Students not only learn a list of things to do, but will utilize and acquire communication skills, self-discipline, and become more responsible.  The employer will play a big part in what the student learns on the work site.

It is the employer's responsibility to

• provide an average minimum of ten hours of work/training per week.
• provide the student with supervision by a qualified and experienced employee.
• provide the student with the same consideration given other employees in regard to safety, social security, and other general employment conditions.
• notify the school coordinator at once of any unsatisfactory development,
• pay the student a wage or salary comparable to other trainees.
• will grade the student each grading period.