What is the Youth Apprenticeship Program?

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What is the Youth Apprenticeship Program?
Youth Apprenticeship Program Mentor Training
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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• A program of study that integrates school-based
  learning and work-based learning through a
  coordinated and cooperative partnership with
  business and industry that is designed to
  facilitate a smooth transition from high
  school to postsecondary education and
  training for career employment.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• This program provides the apprentice the
  opportunity to earn a high school diploma,
  postsecondary certificate and/or diploma,
• and a Certificate
• of Occupational
• Skills.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• The purpose of the program is to prepare young
  people for careers in a specific occupational
  cluster.
• It is designed to help students make a smooth
  transition from high school to the world of work.
• Students and parents should know something
  about the occupations and career
  opportunities associated
  with career/tech clusters offered to
  students.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training
School Based Learning
Postsecondary
Co-op
Secondary Education
Certificate of Occupational Skills
Shadowing
Dual Enrollment
Internship
Skills Standards
Apprentice
Technical College

• To understand the YAP you must understand the
  language

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• Youth Apprenticeship Program (YAP) A program of
  study that integrates school-based learning and
  work-based learning through a coordinated and
  cooperative partnership with business and
  industry that is designed to enable a smooth
  transition from high school to postsecondary
  education, learning, and training for career
  employment. This program provides the apprentice
  the opportunity to earn a high school diploma,
  postsecondary certificate and/or diploma, and a
  Certificate of Occupational Skills.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• Apprentice A high school student who is
  enrolled in and meets the admission requirements
  of the Youth Apprenticeship Program. This
  student has selected a career cluster and
  seeks to pursue educational and job training
  opportunities related to that career
  while attending high school and continuing
  after graduation.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• Certificate of Occupational Skills A business
  and industry recognized credential issued by the
  Georgia Department of Education that certifies
  that a student has mastered specific job
  related skills at a level recognized as
  acceptable by business and industry.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• School-based learning Academic and
  occupational objectives directly linked to skill
  standards in a program of study that leads to a
  diploma and Certificate of Occupational Skills.
• Work-based learning Job performance by the
  student at his/her work site that meets
  performance objectives which are linked directly
  to skill standards.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• Skill standards Specific job related academic
  and occupational standards validated by industry
  that
• prepares students for
• employment in an
• occupational/career area.
• Dual enrollment Students enrolled in a course
  of study in which course credit is earned
  at the high school level and at the
  postsecondary level.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• Secondary education refers to educational
  opportunities that occur
• during middle school and/or high
• school.
• Postsecondary Refers to educational
  opportunities that occur after leaving or
  graduating from high school.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• Internship A paid work based opportunity for
  students to apply job specific skills while
  working in a business or industry for a
  specified period of time that is directly linked
  to that students career cluster at the
  postsecondary level.
• Shadowing A work based opportunity for
  students to work with a business or industry
  employee for the purpose of learning about that
  particular job and business or industry. This
  opportunity is typically brief and the student
  may receive pay for the experience.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• Co-op program A career based educational
  opportunity at the secondary and postsecondary
  levels in which students receive job related
  training and are provided work related training
  experiences as paid employees of business or
  industry.
• Technical College A postsecondary educational
  institution that focuses on areas of study that
  prepares individuals for employment in career
  clusters which appeal to the students interests
  and abilities.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• The student must be in the 11th or 12th grade and
  must be at least 16 years old.
• The student must receive at least 144 hours of
  instruction in the career cluster into which
  he/she is applying.
• The student must have a detailed training plan
  that establishes a realistic goal of accumulating
  2000 hours of on-the-job training and that
  specifies specific work tasks that will develop
  workplace competency.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• The student must have a record of appropriate
  behavior.
• The student must have a 3.0 average.
• The student must learn a broad range of skills
  in a career cluster focused upon
• manufacturing and engineering
• technology, administration,
• and health care.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• The student must have a record of exemplary
  school attendance.
• The student must have an Individual Career Plan
  that provides school and work-based opportunities
  that lead to the
• earning of a high school diploma,
• a post-secondary diploma and/or
• Certificate of Occupational Skills.
• The student must receive
• compensation based upon
• a progressive wage scale.

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• The student must be willing to
• submit to specific conditions
• as required by the employer.
• The student must be willing to receive work-based
  evaluations on a monthly basis.
• The students job must be classified as Highly
  Skilled as certified by the Department of Labor.

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• Who is a mentor?
• What qualities should this person possess?
• What is the role of the mentor?

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• A mentor provides guidance and encouragement to
  the youth apprentice as well as teaches the work
  tasks and responsibilities associated with the
  career occupation. First introduced in the 8th
  century B.C. in Homers epic poem, the Odyssey,
  the term meant trusted guide who is thoughtful,
  enthusiastic, moral, idealistic, sensitive, and
  practical. It more recently has come to mean a
  wise model, sponsor, or advisor.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• The mentor must possess good personal qualities
  and technical competence to be successful.
• A good mentor is interested in young people.
  He/she must know their job well and be willing to
  share that knowledge.
• An understanding of human relations is important.
  The mentor should be of such character that the
  youth apprentice will want to emulate him/her.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• The mentor should be competent in performing
  technical competencies and should have an
  understanding of the industry and not just the
  job within the industry.
• The mentor should show leadership authority while
  at the same time create an environment conducive
  to teaching and learning that is free of fear and
  intimidation.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• The mentor performs a number of functions
  including
• Induction of the apprentice into the business
• Training of the apprentice
• Evaluation of the apprentice
• Counseling the apprentice on matters related to
  work

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• Instructional behaviors mentors should follow in
  teaching youth apprentices about their work tasks
  and job responsibilities (Hamilton and Hamilton,
  1993).
• Demonstrate task performance by doing the task
  while the apprentice observes. Point out
  important features of the task and check for
  understanding by asking questions and encouraging
  the apprentice to ask questions.

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• Explain how to perform a task correctly.
  Explanations may accompany demonstrations or may
  be provided as a separate instructional task.
  Performance criteria should be established,
  likely occurring problems can be pointed out, and
  problem solving strategies can be identified
  during this time.

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• Explain why a task is performed a certain way.
  Explain why it is performed according to certain
  specifications. Provide information about
  underlying scientific principles and business
  management. Relate the task at hand to other
  tasks already completed or those that will be
  completed in the future.

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• Monitor and critique the apprentices attempts to
  do the task. While monitoring the apprentices
  performance, give clear and immediate feedback.
  Although monitoring will be continual, the
  frequency of providing feedback will increase as
  the apprentice gains confidence and takes on more
  tasks. The apprentice should be encouraged to
  self-monitor and seek help when difficulties
  arise.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• Model problem-solving by thinking aloud and
  demonstrating problem-solving strategies. This
  process of problem-solving has generated much
  research in educational circles and has proven to
  be very effective in resolving conflicts and
  problems as well as being a very effective
  instructional strategy. Modeling may also
  include explaining answers to questions the
  apprentice may ask when problems arise,
  identifying the kinds and sources of information
  the apprentice might need to find a solution, and
  pointing out important information or cues used
  to problem-solve.

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• The mentor must also orient the youth apprentice
  to the social and personal aspects of the work
  place.
• Initiate the apprentice to the workplace culture.
  Apprentices bring adolescents into an adult
  social system. This system is a new culture with
  its own rules, conventions, norms, and language.

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• Advise the apprentice on career directions and
  opportunities. This information may include
  future education and training needed for a
  particular field, introducing apprentices to
  others who can share their experiences, or expand
  the apprentices conceptions about related
  careers.
• Help resolve problems such as how and when to ask
  questions, who to go to for help, working through
  performance concerns.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• As a mentor you can help the apprentice stay
  focused on the task and pay attention to
  instructions and observe demonstrations.
• Provide the apprentice the opportunity to
  practice what has been taught. The mentor and the
  learner should evaluate the performance of the
  apprentice.
• learn how to learn on the job.

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• Allow the apprentice time to process the new
  knowledge and ensure that there is a clear
  understanding of the concepts. Have the
  apprentice repeat back the process, demonstrate a
  new process, or adapt a skill to a new concept.
• The mentor should see to it that the apprentice
  produces real work. The learning process should
  provide opportunity and motivation to produce
  real results.

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• Help the apprentice seek and find new
  opportunities to learn. Impress upon the
  apprentice the need to initiate learning rather
  than using a sit and get approach while waiting
  for educational opportunities to arrive.
• Apprentices should take time to think about their
  work experience and consider the long-term
  implication these experiences will have.

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• The role of the mentor may play an important part
  in assisting the apprentice in developing the
  skills and competency necessary to be successful
  in the workplace through.
• Academic support Encouraging academic success,
  evaluating educational choices, and directing
  future educational endeavors.
• Role modeling demonstrating actions and values
  that offer the best chances for success and
  happiness.

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• Attention and Concern Filling in the gap left
  from inattentive parents, undesirable home
  environments, and past failures provide support
  for apprentices who are otherwise left to get it
  on their own the best way they can.
• Accountability establishing an accountability
  system between the mentor and the apprentice
  provides a bond that cements trust.

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• Communication Attention must be given to three
  basic skills Listening, looking, and leveling.
  Listening may be passive (hearing and paying
  attention) or active (conversations). Looking
  includes the use of body language and frequently
  speaks volumes more that voice. Leveling is
  simply being honest about what you are feeling
  and thinking without being angry or destructive.

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• Self-Esteem Much emphasis has been placed
  upon the important link between self-esteem and
  learning.
• The following helps develop positive self-esteem

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• The following damage self-esteem and should be
  avoided

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• Positive characteristics of the mentor include

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• The mentor wears multiple hats
• Trainer
• Supervisor
• Teacher
• Evaluator
• Friend

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Youth Apprenticeship ProgramMentor Training

• A program of study that integrates school-based
  learning and work-based learning through a
  coordinated and cooperative partnership with
  business and industry that is designed to
  facilitate a smooth transition from high
  school to postsecondary education and
  training for career employment.