Are you curious about your future career? Do you want to “test a career” before leaving high school to enter the workforce, start your apprenticeship or enroll in a college or university? Co-operative Education gives you this opportunity! Co-operative Education is a high school program designed to earn credits while working outside the school.
Co-operative Education helps you to:
- Test a career
- Explore your interest and aptitudes
- Develop specific job skills and gain experience
- Develop attitudes for success in the workplace
- Gain valuable employability skills
- Qualify and prepare for future part time, full time, and summer employment
- Gather references for your resume
- Earn diploma credits
- Facilitate entry to college or university
Co-op courses further develop skills knowledge acquired through related in school courses. For example, students that have successfully completed the grade 11 Technological Design course may choose to pursue co-op work in a related field such as auto mechanics, tool and dye, or engineering.
Before the job placement begins, the students participate in a unit called Pre-placement orientation. Topics include, employment standards act, human rights, interview skills, the resume and safety on the job. Throughout the semester, students return to school on a regular basis for integration sessions to discuss workplace experiences.
Evaluation in all Co-operative Education courses will include some of the following items: log sheets; journals, employers’ evaluation of performance on the job, career fair, and rich performance task at the placement.
Admission Criteria
To be accepted into any Co-operative Education program, students must:
- Fill out an ONLINE Co-operative Education application. The link will be available on the moodle as well as career cruising.
- Fill out a co-operative education application form and teacher reference forms, which are available in the Co-op office in room 215.(completed in February)
- Enrol in the moodle titled “MCI Cooperative Education NEW students”
- Have a personal interview with a Coop teacher (Mar/April)
- Have a history of good attendance and work habits
Teacher Information
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