LVTI Coperative Education Program
The Cooperative Education Program is an extension of a student’s vocational education that combines classroom instruction with on-the-job training.
It provides a student the opportunity to develop academic, technical, and job skills not attainable in a school-based setting but acquirable in an industrial or business work-based environment. The program is open to all students who are at least half-way through their junior year and have been enrolled for at least one and one-half years in an approved vocational program.
Students must satisfy state and school grades, attendance, and performance requirements. All co-op students have completed the OSHA recognized CareerSafe online health and safety course, or the OSHA 10-hour General Industry or Construction Industry training program, demonstrating that they have the fundamental safety knowledge needed in today’s workplace.
Through a cooperative arrangement made between an employer and a school, the student on one week receives instruction in the required academic and career related classes. On the alternate week, the student expands their classroom learning experiences and connects the academic knowledge with the business world through paid employment in a supervised educational work setting related to the student’s occupational career area.
Integrating academic and career related classes with practical work experience helps students strengthen work skills learned in the classroom, develop inter-personal skills related to employment, and improve their chances for a better job.
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