Providing Effective Work-Based Learning Opportunities for Students, Schools, and Businesses
Date:
June 25 All day
Location: Berlin, VT
Price:
Instructor(s):
Rich Tulikangas, M.Ed.
Event Type:
In-Person
Graduate Credits:
3
Intended Audience:
The course is designed to meet the licensure requirements for candidates who will pursue the WBLC endorsement through the AOE Transcript or Peer Review process. The coursework addresses topics that may also appeal to community-based learning coordinators, guidance counselors, special educators, flexible pathway coordinators, coop coordinators, classroom teachers, career development counselors, job coaches, vocational rehabilitation counselors, administrators and others.
Participants must attend all events:
- Event Date
- Event Date
In order to develop legal, safe, and effective work-based learning programs and experiences, school personnel must understand labor and safety laws and practices; sales and marketing; career development strategies; and effective systems for organizing, monitoring and evaluating student learning opportunities with businesses and community partners. This course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge base needed to develop and operate a coherent work-based learning (WBL) program for a school or organization under the Vermont Work-Based Learning educator’s license endorsement.
As a central reference, this course uses the Vermont Agency of Education Vermont Work-Based Learning Manual: Guidelines and Tools to Support Work-Based Learning Experiences for All Learners (2017).
Course Start/End Dates: June 25, 2025 – August 6, 2025
In-Person Class Meetings:
6/25/2025: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
7/9/2025: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
7/23/2025: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
8/6/2025: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
