Work-Based Learning encompasses activities that take place in the workplace or in the school in collaboration with the community to provide a service or produce a product that meets industry standards. Students gain valuable work experience that allows them to put their skills into action.
 Cindy Christensen 585-352-2733
Coordinator of Work-Based Learning for:- Baking
- Child and Family Development
- Culinary Arts
- Dental Assisting
- Digital and Visual Communication
- Exercise Science
- Food Services
- Medical Laboratory Assisting and Phlebotomy
- Nurse Assisting and Associated Health Careers
- Personal Services
- New Visions Health Professions
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| Carisa Harding 585-352-2623
Coordinator of Work-Based Learning for: - Auto Body and Collision Repair Technology
- Automotive Technology
- Building Trades
- Computer Technology
- Criminal Justice
- Heavy Equipment Operations and Maintenance
- Introduction to Construction Trades
- Outdoor Powersports Technology
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| Brandilyn Steves
Coordinator of Work-Based Learning for: - Carpentry
- Cosmetology
- Engineering and Metal Fabrication- Machining
- Engineering and Metal Fabrication- Welding
- HVAC/Plumbing
- Residential and Commercial Electrical
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Work-Based Learning Experiences
Cooperative Career & Technical Education Work Experience Program (Co-op):
- Career development, skill specific
- Paid or unpaid
- Program for LEAs and BOCES CTE centers
- Hazardous occupations allowable with student-learner exceptions
Career Exploration Internship Program (CEIP)
- Career awareness, exploration
- Unpaid
- Program for local educational agencies and BOCES CTE centers
- Hazardous occupations prohibited
Job Shadowing
- Job shadowing is a career exploration activity
- Student follows an employee at a workplace for 1-8 hours to learn about an occupation or career pathway of interest
- These are observation experiences
School-Based Enterprise
- Exists within a school
- Provides services for students, staff, and/or customers from the community
Community Service/ Volunteering and Service Learning
- Students participate in volunteer experiences that teach responsibility, community involvement, and awareness of the needs of others.
- Community service does not directly connect to the knowledge and technical skills learned in the classroom.
- Service learning is community service that directly connects to the knowledge and skills learned in classrooms.
- In service learning, the interwoven service and learning outcomes derive from a singular, distinct pedagogy.
US Department of Labor - Prohibitive Hazardous Occupations
The minimum age is 18 for employment in non-agricultural occupations declared hazardous by the Secretary of Labor.
Some of the restrictions on hazardous occupations
do not apply to students who are enrolled in an approved CTE program. These exemptions are marked with an *. For more information, visit the
Department of Labor website.
The rules prohibit work in or with the following:
HO 1. Manufacturing and storing of explosives
HO 2. Driving a motor vehicle and being an outside helper on a motor vehicle
HO 3. Coal mining
HO 4. Logging and sawmilling
HO 5. Power-driven woodworking machines*
HO 6. Exposure to radioactive substances
HO 7. Power-driven hoisting apparatus
HO 8. Power-driven metal-forming, punching and shearing machines*
HO 9. Mining, other than coal mining
HO 10. Meat packing or processing (including the use of power-driven meat slicing machines)*
HO 11. Power-driven bakery machines
HO 12. Power-driven paper-products machines*
HO 13. Manufacturing brick, tile and related products
HO 14. Power-driven circular saws, band saws, and guillotine shears*
HO 15. Wrecking, demolition, and ship-breaking operations
HO 16. Roofing operations*
HO 17. Excavation operations* p