School to Careers Levels of Service Brochure

SCHOOL
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an application process, scheduled internship
blocks, orientation, student monthly work
logs, mentor reports, student reflective essays
and a recognition ceremony.
Basic Internship Placements
(Level II Service)
TO
CAREERS
credentialing, developing career plans and
reviewing them annually and retaining and
sharing all records with districts to create
portfolios/transcripts.
Level II Workshops – Workshops
Package B
For Workshops Package B, STC provides a
full service for delivering workshops specific
to district requests and career
clusters students are interested
in.
STC provides a full service for internship
experiences
specific
to career
clusters
STC will work directly with
students are
the district point person to
interested
identify the district’s needs,
in. The
create a workshop plan, secure
internship
appropriate professionals
placements
and deliver the workshop in
are designed
conjunction with selected
to last for one
individuals.
to two weeks,
District-Specific Career
Students from the Herkimer BOCES region experience hands-on
with students activities at Mohawk Valley Construction Career Day.
Planning
attending the
Level II service also includes
internships
collaborative and comprehensive career
five days per week.
planning specific to the school district for
STC organizes for the full placement
grades 6-12 – including development sessions
of the students by organizing details
with guidance counselors to build plans.
such as pre- and post-meetings with the
business/industry partners, coordinating
scheduling, handling student contracts and
transportation permission forms, monitoring
and reporting student attendance, providing
SWD-WBL opportunities toward CDOS
www.herkimer-boces.org
SCHOOL
TO
CAREERS
About STC
The Herkimer-Fulton-Hamilton-Otsego BOCES
School to Careers program exposes students to careers
within the greater Mohawk Valley region. STC
epitomizes the essence of creating real-world work
connections with local businesses and industries
through a diversified approach of exploration;
therefore, allowing students a chance to experience
meaningful preparation and application of 21st
Century workplace skills.
STC Contact Info
Chris Groves, School to Careers Director
Phone: 315-867-2045
Email: [email protected]
School to Careers
Levels of Service
Brochure
MaryBeth Napolitano, School to Careers Liaison
Phone: 315-867-2067
Email: [email protected]
Kim LiBritz, School to Careers Secretary
Phone: 315-867-2080
Email: [email protected]
Local eighth-graders tour Herkimer BOCES classrooms during
the Journey from 8 to Great event.
Above: Local students at Seventh Grade
Construction Career Day. Below: Students hear
from Genesis Group Executive Director Ray
Durso at the first Men’s Career Experience.
S C H O O L
Level I Service
School to Careers Level I service includes
job shadowing preparation, resources for
workshops
and STC
acting as
the liaison
for districts
for various
activities such
as:
Regional
events such as
Manufacturing
Day at SUNY
Polytechnic
Institute and
Mohawk
Valley
Construction
Career Day.
C A R E E R S
Career Experience, Men’s Career Experience,
the Journey from 8 to Great, Seventh Grade
Construction Career Day, job fairs and
events focused on specific career clusters.
Level I Job Shadowing Package:
Preparation
Local
business tours.
Guest
speakers.
T O
The Level I package for
job shadowing includes
preparation for job shadowing
through STC such as:
Conducting career interest
inventories/surveys for grades
6-10.
Providing results of career
inventories/surveys to districts.
Students in the region hear from local, female business leaders
during the Women’s Career Experience at Herkimer BOCES.
Supplying packets of all
possible business and industry
sites for each career cluster.
Distributing the job
shadowing toolkit, which
includes all documents
needed for a job shadowing
experience.
Level I Workshops –
Workshops Package A
For Workshops Package A,
STC provides districts with
Other
materials and resources such as
regional
the following:
Local students try out welding simulators provided by School to
events
Careers
at
the
SUNY
Polytechnic
Institute
Manufacturing
Day.
developed
Pre-made workshops
by STC and
designed by a curriculum
its business partners such as the Women’s
specialist including Careers in a Box, Paving
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L E V E L S
O F
S E R V I C E
B R O C H U R E
the Way, Pay Check Day, Career Expansions,
The Job Market, Landing the Job I and II and
Pathways to Alignment.
The job shadowing experiences can be
one to two times per student and one to two
times per location. These full-placement
job shadowing experiences include pre- and
A packet of all possible external
post-meetings with the business/industry
providers for specific workshop interest.
partner
and the
completion
School to Careers Level II
of all
service includes all of Level I
requirements
service plus larger and more
in the job
time consuming activities
shadowing
designed specifically for districts
toolkit such
requests – such as events,
as host and
job shadowing, new career
student
immersion experiences and
evaluation
internships.
forms and
As arranged by School to Careers, 10th-graders tour Giotto
Level II Job Shadowing
student
Enterprises’ Fiber Instrument Sales manufacturing facility.
Package: Experience
reflective
With the Level II package for
essays.
job shadowing, STC provides services such
Basic Career Immersion Experience
as:
The new Basic Career Immersion
Using the results of the Level I
Experience provides eight to 10 job
inventories/surveys to connect students to
shadowing experiences that are spread
job shadowing experiences.
throughout the year to introduce students to
Conducting further career interest
a variety of career opportunities they might
inventories/surveys for grades 11-12.
be interested in.
Providing full-service job shadowing
Advanced Career Immersion
experiences specific to career clusters
Experience
students are interested in.
The new Advanced Career Immersion
Level II Service
Retaining and sharing all records with
districts.
Experience is a very comprehensive program
that includes meetings, mentors, placements,
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