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Hofstra University’s School of Education offers the Advanced Certificate in Work Based Learning Extension program to teachers and eligible candidates working with students to provide structured learning experiences for students. The focus of this work is assisting students to develop broad, transferable skills for postsecondary education and the workplace. This Advanced Certificate leads to a Career and Technical Teacher Extension, Coordinator of Work-Based Learning. This certification extension enables teachers to place students in a variety of work-based learning activities such as career exploration, internships, cooperative work experience, and community-based work experience programs.
Schools that offer a NYS approved career and technical education program, will want to invest in having a certified Work Based Learning Coordinator at the helm of such a program!
Valid base certificates for this extension are:
- Valid Initial, Professional, or Permanent teacher certificate in any title in middle childhood education (grades 5-9), adolescence education (grades 7-12), or All Grade levels.
- Valid Initial, Provisional, Professional, or Permanent School Counselor certificate.
About Our Program
Candidates will patriciate in a fully online, asynchronous, 2-course program. Essential components of the program focus on:
- Workforce Readiness
- Advisory Boards
- Career Assessment and Career Plans
- Employability Skills
- Employer’s Memorandum of Agreement
- Student Assessment
Coursework taken will include:
- SED 211 – Work Based Learning: Organization and Structure
- SED 212 – Work Based Learning: Operation and Supervision
New York State Certification
The successful completion of two on-line courses, SED 211 - Work-Based Learning Program: Organization and Structure, (3 s.h.), and SED 212 - Work-Based Learning Program: Operation and Supervision, (3 s.h.), which can be taken in either order, or together, and graduation from the Advanced Certificate will lead to an institutional recommendation for the Career And Technical Teacher Extension - Coordinator Of Work-Based Learning Programs Extension.