WBL at PAHCC
(Natural Resource Management student with forester Joe Nelson in Salisbury)
Job shadowing is an unpaid experience where you can follow and talk with an employer for a short period of time in order to learn about a particular occupation or industry. Job shadows are also an opportunity for a student and employer to determine if they are a good fit for each other before beginning a longer work experience. It is a bit like a field trip that you go on by yourself to learn more about a job.
(Engineering students at the Wooden Hammer cabinet shop in Monkton)
Internships can be paid or unpaid work experience in which you participate in a variety of tasks employers might expect from an employee. Paid or unpaid,, you are treated like an employee and expected to behave and act accordingly. There are 7 rules that govern whether or not you need to be paid for an internship
(Auto Tech student at County Tire in Middlebury)
Cooperative Education is the name for a paid job that can be used for students to demonstrate their progress towards proficiencies and transferable skills from their Career Center program. You can work for the company or non-profit that employs you either during or after school hours and earn credit for your time and the skills you document, plus take home a pay check!
If you are interested in a work-based learning placement with an area business or employer, please contact Jess at Jdanyow@pahcc.org. If it's easier to chat with your instructor and ask them to contact me you can also do that!
You can have a co-operative education experience over the summer! Here's how:
You must have enrolled in a PAHCC program during the current year and have been accepted to return to the same program for the following year
Complete all of the Getting Started steps above. Summer co-op can be any of the four types of Co-op at the top of the page
Summer co-op can be used to demonstrate proficiencies that lead to meeting your graduation requirements!
A graduating senior can access summer co-op if the student has applied to return to the PAHCC program as an adult student in the following year.
Yes, the student in banner at the top of this page has a big grin. He was enrolled in our Auto Tech program and had a career work experience as an aircraft mechanic intern at J & A Aviation in East Middlebury. He just completed putting a new windshield in the twin engine Beechcraft behind him. Why not grin?