Cooperative Education A Provincial Picture

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Cooperative EducationA Provincial Picture

• OCEA Spring Conference
• Successful Transitions
• May 2005
• By Anne Sasman, Ministry of Education

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Distribution of Students in Co-op By Grade,
2001-02 and 2002-03
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Total Enrolment Provincial Figures
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Double Cohort Study

• A.J.C. King, Principal Investigator, Queens
  University
• Phase 3 Report, April 2004
• Sources of Information OCAS OUAC MOE student
  transcript info questionnaires school sample of
  150 schools interviews school calendars
  master timetables

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Student Destinations Years 1999-2000 to Fall
2004
Source Alan King, Double Cohort Study 2005
Estimates
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Post-Secondary Plans Involvement in Co-op Grade
11 (2003)
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Location of Co-op Placements - Grades 11 12
(2003)
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Reasons for Taking Co-op
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Other Trends

• Fewer students taking Co-op in Grade 11 in 2003
  probably due to earlier credit loss and increased
  graduation requirements
• 68 of Grade 12 students not taking Co-op cited
  logistical constraints, only 32 said they were
  not interested
• Almost ¼ of returning Grade 12 students take Co-op

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Provincial Initiatives ImpactingCo-op
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Student Success Program

• Every student deserves a good outcome
• 51M per year
• Focus-Literacy, Numeracy Program Pathways
• Pathways to Employability
• Two new courses Discovering the Workplace
  (GLD20), Navigating the Workplace (GLN40)

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Student Success New Announcement

• Additional 1,300 secondary teachers by 2007-2008
  for English-language public boards (numbers for
  other jurisdictions soon) aimed at reducing the
  number of drop-outs/improving graduation rates
• Student Success teachers in every school to work
  with struggling students
• More sections of applied, LDCC, workplace/
  college prep., ESL, Co-op related courses,
  alternative programs

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Technological Education

• 20M 2004-05 Funding for broad-based
  technological education capital equipment
• 25M additional grant for technological education
  needs for all tech. subjects
• Boards must develop multi-year plans addressing 5
  Areas Program Pathways, Community Partnerships,
  Professional Development Capacity for
  Leadership, Curriculum Equipment/Facility

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Learning to 18 Pilot Funding

• February June 2005 to scale up programs aimed
  at reducing drop-outs re-engaging youth who left
  without diploma providing school-to-work
  school-to-apprenticeship programs
• 18 M for 105 Projects program pathways to
  apprenticeship and other sectors, alternative
  programs to re-engage students programs to
  re-connect drop-outs credit recovery
  remediation targeted groupsaboriginal,
  homeless expansion of Co-op college link
  programs programming strategies for Grade 9 10

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Ontario Skills Passport

• The OSP is now available at http//skills.edu.gov
  .on.ca username is osp password is password
• Boards have received 18K to build capacity for
  its use in two new courses (GLD20, GLN40) and in
  Co-op programs
• OSP training via web conference facilitated
  through Curriculum Services Canada

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Provincial Supports for Co-op Teachers

• PPLP and Assessment Evaluation
• Workplace Health Safety

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PPLP Training Resources

• Personalized Placement Learning Plan (PPLP)
  Components and Related Rich Tasks Quality
  samples (30) including GLD20 GLN40
• Web-based training on developing PPLPs and
  Assessment Evaluation (on-going)
• Both available at www.curriculum.org.

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Success 5 Years of Health and Safety
1999 2004/02005 15
young worker deaths that year 24
reduction in serious (lost time) injuries
reported by Ontario teens 45,000 injuries
reported to WSIB 5 young worker
fatalities in 2004 (3 teens). None to date in
2005. 3 high profile YW fatalities in
the previous 5 years 45 reduction in
traumatic injuries of young Ontario workers
from 1999 2003 (reported by Canadian
Hospitals). All other provinces
are the same or have increased up to 25 YWAP
student awareness program
Ministry of Education
WSIB premiums for cooperative
education students cut in half and surcharges
eliminated. WSIB social marketing posters,
radio and TV ads Live Safe! Work
Smart! Binders and CDs Grade 9/10 and
11/12 First year of health and safety in the new
4 year Live Safe! Work Smart! For
cooperative Education Curriculum
WorkSmartOntario website and
resources Live Safe! Work Smart! Grade 9/10
launched in Fall of 2000 through Education
training sessions Live Safe! Work
Smart! For teachers of students with special
learning needs
YWAP and WSIB Social Marketing still in
place Rob Ellis presentations
reinforce teacher messages across the province
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24 reduction in serious (lost time) injuries to
Ontario teens in just 3 years!
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• Passport to Safety is national online health and
  safety challenge designed to provide young people
  with the basic knowledge of health and safety
  they need to be ready for job-specific training
  in a workplace. When they've successfully
  completed the challenge students receive a
  certificate to attach to their resumes. Thanks to
  funding from the WSIB, Passport to Safety tests
  and lifetime memberships for your students are
  FREE (regular cost 9).
• Over 80,000 memberships/test have been ordered
  by Ontario teachers
• Manitowadge High school 99 of the school
  population completed the test and won a
• MUCH video dance party for their school
• In Sault Ste Marie, a Co-op teacher ensured
  every student completed Passport to Safety
• for their portfolios to bring for their job
  interviews. A student arriving at Soo Mill was
  told
• by the employer they would be required to
  complete Passport to Safety. The student was
• able to produce the certificate/transcript
  from their school portfolio. Brilliant!
• To keep the funding going which makes the test
  FREE for Ontario, teachers must ORDER
• and USE the free tests

    Check out www.PassporttoSafety.com and
follow the link for Ontario Teachers to access
more information, the order form and more!
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Passport to Prosperity

• Employer recruitment marketing campaign
• In 26 communities across the province Business
  Education Councils and Local Training Boards
  facilitate partnerships between schools the
  business community to provide opportunities for
  students
• Over 23,000 employers have joined the campaign
• Key partners Human Resources Professionals of
  Ontario, Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Federation
  of Independent Business, Toronto Board of Trade

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The Challenges Facing Co-op2005 - 2010

• Developing program models to meet the needs of
• Students at risk of dropping out or who have
  dropped out and would benefit from Co-op
• Pathways programs where students do early and
  multiple Co-op placements
• Students with special needs

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Further Challenges

• Expanding the placement base to more closely
  reflect the career interests of students
• Supporting more students doing experiential
  learningearlier and more frequent job shadowing,
  work experience, Co-op
• Maintaining credibility of credit with strong
  PPLPs with Assessment Evaluation based on
  related course.

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Why Experiential Learning?

• To find out what one is fitted to do,
• and to secure an opportunity to do it,
• is the key to happiness."
  -John Dewey