School-To-Careers Learning Programs
School-to-career learning programs at North Montco Technical Career Center combine quality education with worksite learning so students are given the opportunity to apply the valuable skills they are learning.
The School-to-Career office can assist with creating a resume and developing interviewing skills. This office also provides job postings. Some students prefer to explore a trade or profession before deciding to pursue a specific career and technical program or college education. Other students want to gain real-life, on-the-job experience before graduating from high school. NMTCC’s School-to-Career office offers students such opportunities and more.
The programs available to students at NMTCC include:
Internships
Pennsylvania Youth Apprenticeship Program (PYAP)
Cooperative Education (Co-op)
Pennsylvania Youth Apprenticeship Program (PYAP)
Program Outline:
This employer-driven program offers paid, on-the-job training experience through a partnership with a sponsoring company. Employers participate with school staff to develop and monitor the curriculum and standards.
Features:
- Open to 11th and 12th grade students.
- Students must have successfully completed all major academic subjects during the 10th grade year to enroll in the program.
- Application process requires recommendations from vocational technical teacher, academic teachers from the sending school, guidance counselors, and an interview with the Administrative Director of North Montco Technical Career Center.
- Students and employers sign a training agreement accepting responsibilities of the position.
- Students complete high school and may enter into the following postsecondary programs: adult registered apprenticeship, certificate program or associate technical degree program.
- Academic and technical instruction is delivered at North Montco Technical Career Center in an integrated learning environment as applicable to the youth apprentices career plan.
CO-OP (COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CAPSTONE PROGRAM)
Program Outline
A culminating Capstone paid work experience for students in the 12th grade who have secured the recommendation of their technical instructor. Recommended students have the opportunity to obtain real work experience and to practice the specific technical skills they have learned.
Features:
- Open to 12th grade students who possess entry-level skills.
- All academics are taken at the sending school during morning periods.
- Students are employed in their technical field in the afternoon.
- Students return to North Montco Technical Career Center once a week to meet with the Co-Op
Coordinator to learn employability and workplace related skills and also to meet with the lab
instructor to discuss concerns on the job.
INTERNSHIP
Program Outline
Internships are designed to allow students the opportunity to understand more fully the technical career, which they have chosen.
Features:
- Short-term career exploration experience.
- Available to students who are in the early stages of technical training.
- Assists in formulating the student’s career plan.
- Open to 11th grade students starting in the second semester, upon recommendation of technical teacher.