Course modules include: 

WBL  Boot Camp: 

• Program strategy:  Review of  New York State Criteria and standards for Approved Work-Based Learning Programs

• Program tools:  Essential forms used in work-based learning programs

• Program protection:  Mastering risk management issues

• Survival tactics for your program:  Dealing with school politics, gaining support from your colleagues for your program, grant writing, advisory boards, ROI.

 Prepare Your Ammunition:  Marketing Tools

• Load your brochures with information that make a difference and insure action

• Aim your program to the world:  Websites for your class and corporate audience

• Fire those newsletters to educate your audience.

 Preparing the Troops for Employment Success:  In-School Instruction:

• Work Smarter not harder:  Creation of work-based learning system to manage your students’ assignments, employer data.

• Enrich your pre-employment Instruction, student self-assessment/career planning activities and job success skills

• Train your troops:  Integrate academics into work-based learning experiences.

• Utilize learning styles and multiple intelligence to better counsel and place your students.

• Equip each troop member with a compass:  Career Mapping for your students.

• Career Strategies:  Don't leave your troops in the fox holes.

• Create dinner topics and virtual textbooks for related training

 Insuring Success on the Training field:

• Training site surveillance.  How to uncover those hard to find training sites.  

• Manage your troops:  Sure-fire tips on handling typical problems with work-based learning students.

• Continuous updates on New York State Child Labor laws and employment certificates

• Update your training plans/work readiness credentials

• Insure safety training for hazardous occupations

Future Workplace:  Workforce Trends:

• Become the workplace training expert in your school: Be the person your school personnel come to for the answers.

• Infuse the secrets of success of Microsoft, Toyota and Disney into your programs and procedures.

• What will work-base learning look like in 2010? 2020?  Will you be there to lead the way? 

 Go to either www.gubing.com/wbl or www.oswego.edu for registration information.