Employment
At COAST, we offer a variety of lessons, activities, and opportunities to develop students' vocational skills and work experience.
EXAMPLES of how we prepare students for post-secondary employment:
EXAMPLES of how we prepare students for post-secondary employment:
- Vocational units with explicit instruction, repeated practice, and application, focused on topics such as:
- Professionalism
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- Applying for jobs
- Interviewing
- Creating resumes
- Scaffolding and support in creating or obtaining professional documents such as:
- Resumes
- Cover letters
- Letters of Recommendation
- Simulated interview practice and preparation
- Development of vocational skills through hands-on tasks
- Career interest surveys, rating-scales, and inventories
- Supported employment with subsidized wages and volunteer opportunities through the Workability program
Array of Services
The Array of Services is a full continuum consistent with the Education Code. These components comprise an effective transition system for middle school and high school students. A WAI student (served) must be provided curriculum integration of work readiness skills, career/vocational assessment and a minimum of one Connecting Activity and one Work Based Learning Service. Of these, at least one must be directly provided by WAI or documentation must exist of WAI's role in the indirect provision of the service.
- School Based Component - Elements that are commonly part of the school curriculum and/or educational delivery system.
- Connecting Activities - Programs and services that help link school and work based learning opportunities.
- Work Based Learning - Work site learning experiences or strategies to connect the classroom to work.
In addition to these mandated services, students may receive:
- Unpaid opportunities
- Industry Tours
- Workshops
- Assessments such as interest inventories
- Guest speakers
- Career awareness and guidance activities
- Community/volunteer projects
- Mobility training