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If you will be offering a Work Experience
Education (WEE) program at your school, you must provide the staff person
and maintain the program within the legal requirements.
STAFFING
- The WEE teacher must be someone with a valid secondary credential
and has two years of occupational experience outside the field of
education.
- The law states that the student-to-teacher ratio for WEE is 125
students for every FTE (full time equivalent) teacher/counselor. A
waiver may be requested to allow more students to enroll.
- If you choose a counselor or a resource teacher, he/she must have
his/her caseload/ workload reduced by 20 percent for every 25
students you want enroll in WEE.
- If you choose a classroom teacher, he/she may enroll 25 students
for every period he/she is assigned to teach WEE. An example of this
would be a business teacher who teaches three periods of keyboarding
and two periods of WEE. This teacher could have 50 students enrolled
in WEE.
- The certificated staff person chosen would also be required to
make two persons supervision visits to each student’s work site
each semester.
- There may be some other legal options, and we can be creative
within the mandated boundaries. If you would like to discuss some of
these options, please call Susan Avelar at (858) 496-1842.
SUPPORT SERVICES
School-to-Career will provide the following support services for Work
Experience Education staff at your school.
- Provide all required Work Experience forms (enrollment forms,
contractual training agreements, grade letters, work permit
applications, change notices, etc.).
- Provide initial training, ongoing inservice activities and
technical assistance.
- Coordinate activities related to the Coordinated Compliance Review
(CCR).
- Provide Related Instruction Packets (RIPs) masters for use in the
weekly related instruction classes students is required to attend.
- Provide typed evaluation report forms for teacher to use during
work site supervision.
- Provide mileage reimbursement to supervising teacher/counselor for
performing duties related to WEE.
- Issue Work Experience Education work permits for enrolled minors.
These permits allow minors to work more and later hours than other
students.
REMINDER: The Board of Education requires all students to be enrolled
in a six-period day. Working students are not to be released early from
school unless they are enrolled in a legal Work Experience Education
program.
Please complete the attached form and
return to Kathy Parker, Revere Center, Room 3 by September 22, 2000.
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