YOUR INTRODUCTION TO WORKBASED LEARNING PROGRAMS

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• YOUR INTRODUCTION TO WORK-BASED LEARNING PROGRAMS

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Dutchess County BOCES Career Technical Institute

• VOCATIONAL CAREER TRAINING
• WORK BASED LEARNING - LIFE SKILLS
• REGENTS CERTIFIED CTE ENDORSEMENT
• COLLEGE CREDIT

CTI YOUR FIRST CHOICE
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CTI Work Based Learning Programs

• Our purpose is to provide our students with the
  necessary life and career skills to succeed in
  the world of work.
• We will provide our students with the necessary
  tools to develop entry level skills that will
  carry over into post-secondary education and
  beyond.
• We provide several programs that accomplish this.

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Why Should YOU Attend?

• Its about choices

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CHOICES...
Career Decisions
What path will I choose?
Job Decisions
College Decisions
What college will I choose?
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Making Career Choices should not be

• A GIANT PUZZLE

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Do you have the right tools?

• Do you have a career plan that will help YOU
  reach your long range educational and career
  goals?

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WHERE ARE YOU GOING?

• COLLEGE?
• TRADE SCHOOL?
• WORK?
• MILITARY?
• DO YOU HAVE THE RESOURCES NEEDED
• WHAT ARE THOSE RESOURCES?

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SHOW ME THE
MONEY

• YOULL NEED MONEY FOR COLLEGE
• YOULL NEED MONEY FOR TECH SCHOOLS
• YOULL NEED MONEY TO GET WORK
• WELL THE MILITARY THATS AN EXCEPTION

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At the Career and Technical Institute(CTI)We
offer you the opportunity to develop those skills
needed to obtain those resources.What do we
offer?
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Vocational Career Training

• Over 36 programs in 6 major clusters
• Business Information Systems
• Engineering Technology
• Arts and Humanity
• Heath Services
• Human and Public Services
• Natural and Agricultural Sciences

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Other Programs Offered

• New Visions Career Explorations
• General Education Courses
• GED

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Career Technical Education (CTE)

• Numerous CTI courses are certified by New York
  State Regents for CTE endorsement
• Every student who completes a one or two year
  program receives a CTE Regents Endorsement on
  their graduation diploma
• Work Based Learning Experience
• Every course that is Regents certified for a CTE
  endorsement must have a work based learning
  experience

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WBL and Career and Technical Education Endorsement
CTE

• Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation CTE
  Endorsement
• 4.5 Units of Credit which includes..
• Cooperative Occupational Education Work
  Experience (Co-op).
• Career Exploration Internship Program (CEIP).
• Cooperative Apprenticeship Program (CAP).

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WBL and CTE Endorsementprovides added
credential on their Regents Diplomas

• Endorsement
• Core courses
• Skill Training
• National Assessment
• WBL

• WBL VALIDATES the endorsement with local/regional
  support.
• Student has additional credentials to market

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NYS Approved WBL Programs

• General Education Work Experience
• Work Experience Career Exploration
• Community-Based Vocational Education Program
• Career Exploration Internship
• Co-Operative Work Experience
• Cooperative Apprenticeship

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What we offer

• Job Shadowing
• paid and non-paid internships, cooperative study
  work based internships
• Career Exploration Internship Programs (CEIP) can
  provide job experience and career exploration

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How it works

• There are two sessions per school year for WBL
  Oct thru Jan / Feb thru May
• You will be able to go to a work site during
  school time
• You must provide your own transportation
• You will be trained on important entry level
  skills while completing your WBL program

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Why Work Based Learning (WBL)

• You should be asking yourself
• What is the purpose of WBL
• What are these programs
• How do I benefit from this

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PURPOSES OF WORK-BASED LEARNING

• Obtain workplace skills.
• Obtain knowledge of work world.
• Interact with people of all ages and backgrounds.
• Explore career paths.

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Benefits to the Students

• Career Direction
• Employment Getting Skills
• Job Success Skills
• Path to higher education.
• Links school learning to work.
• Opportunity to develop skills not normally
  developed in class, i.e. leadership,
  decision-making.

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Work Based Learning Life Skills
NYS Approved Work-Based Learning Programs
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Comparison of Programs
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All programs must be registered with the NYS
Education Department
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Cooperative Apprenticeship Program
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Who Coordinates the WBL Programs?

• A NYSED approved program should be operated by a
  Certified Work Based Learning Coordinator.

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Put what youve learned into practice...

• Youve learned all the theory... now put it into
  practice through our work based learning programs
  available at CTI
• Learn if you want to be in a certain career path
  now while you are in high school, this can
  translate into dollars savings for college

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WE WANT YOU TO GO TO COLLEGE!
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College Credit in High School

• The majority of our programs have college
  articulation agreements with numerous local and
  regional colleges and universities
• This translates into saving hundreds of dollars
  for you prior enrolling in college

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Career Job Placement

• CTI has a web based eBoard Job Bank
• Hundreds of local businesses are registered with
  our eBoard Job Bank
• The job bank is available to all our students and
  graduates

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5 Most Recently Added Vacancies Students Log
in below to view the details...
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Our Proof Of Success The CTI WALL OF FAME

• Our past graduates are recognized on an annual
  basis through our WALL OF FAME
• Business partners in the Dutchess County area who
  graduated from Dutchess Boces and have followed
  their career paths

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• Visit Our Business Industry Partners Websites
  
• www.palumbo.biz/
  www.carecorenational.com
• www.goarmy.com
  www.umh.org
• www.eastaffing.com
  www.bethelwell.com
• www.kent_at_applehealthcare.com
  www.interimhealthcare.com
• www.baptist-home.com
  www.at-healthcare.com
• www.anytimehomecare.com
  www.airforce.com
• www.dutchess-arc.org
  www.hammondsecurity.com

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Where do I sign up?

• Your first step is to see your home school
  counselor
• Request an application to attend CTI
• Complete the application and return it to your
  school counselor
• Follow up with a phone call to CTI to see if the
  application has been received prior to September

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Your Personal Invitation !
"Come see what we have to offer"
Mr. Mitchell Shron, Principal
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We look forward to seeing YOU at CTI !
If you have any questions about our programs or
applications, please contact me Mr. Roberto
Bonefont, Sr. Work Based Learning Programs
Coordinator 5 Boces Road Poughkeepsie, New York
12601 845-486-8001, ext. 307 roberto.bonefont_at_
dcboces.org