La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § LXXXI-903

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section LXXXI-903 - Workplace Skills Education and Training

A. Strategies for better educating students for the workplace include:

1. career research and information beginning in early grades;

2. applied academic courses that present subject matter in a way that connects abstract knowledge to workplace applications using cooperative learning strategies;

3. integration of vocational and academic subjects;

4. counseling and career pathways to focus students in their choice of courses to study;

5. articulation between secondary and postsecondary education;

6. collaborative partnerships between education, business, labor, and communities in the total education experience of students; and

7. integration of school-based and work-based learning through:

a. vocational cooperative programs-provides school-supervised work experiences;

b. apprenticeships-on-the-job training and related instruction;

c. career academies (school within a school)-integrates academic and vocational courses and provides workplace learning in a particular career focus area;

d. job shadowing-provides information about a job or position through the student following or "shadowing" a worker for a short period of time;

e. job mentoring-provides more specific job information and actual work experience as a student is assigned to an adult worker (mentor) who models workplace behavior, skills, and training in a one-to-one relationship;

f. school-based enterprises-work simulation within the school in the form of stores, print shops, child care centers, etc., operated by the students;

g. work simulation-provides work experience either in the classroom or in the community through simulated work experiences;

h. volunteer service programs-provides the opportunity to gain employability and work skills outside the classroom through experiences in developing and improving the community; and

i. vocational student organizations-provides work-based experiences for students through formalized events, demonstrations, volunteer work, and leadership training.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § LXXXI-903

Promulgated by the Department of Education, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Career and Technical Education, LR 30:2706 (December 2004).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 6:(A)(10) and R.S. 17:10.