Offered on a semester basis through Boulder TEC, students receive variable high school credit for work experience which is verified through time sheets, paychecks, and site visits. Student must be 16 and successfully work a 12-hour work week throughout the semester at an agreed upon compensation rate. Students also attend an orientation, a three-hour workshop and participate in individualized lessons covering work-related topics such as resume writing, job interviewing, safety/health/OSHA, liability, sexual harassment/discrimination, work ethics, and personal finance. Special needs students will receive work experience relevant to their established IEP.
This course is designed to offer the student credit for a supervised, paid work experience in an area in which he/she would like to do career exploration. Workers’ compensation or the equivalent must be provided by the employer. The program coordinator will conduct periodic visitations to the student’s place of work so that evaluations of the student’s work performance may be discussed with the employer. The student will then meet monthly with the program instructor to discuss the outcome of site visits, to consider suggestions to benefit the employer and student, set goals and to discuss graded assignments program progress.