Georgia Youth Apprenticeship

Coordinators:
Sandra Willcox & Linda Peacock
478.374.2240 ext. 135

Career Opportunities for ALL High School Students

Youth Apprenticeship Mission Statement

The mission of the Georgia Youth Apprenticeship Program is to prepare every student for a high-skill occupation and to provide Georgia with a pool of highly trained, technologically sophisticated young workers.

Goals

To establish active participation of employers and industry associations in establishing standards of performance, delivery of structured work-based learning, determination of student achievement through performance-based assessment, and the award of a credential that recognizes a student’s mastery of skills.

To provide a program of study at both the secondary and post-secondary levels that is academically challenging and engages the student as an active learner, and uses teaching strategies that emphasize active contextual learning defined, in part, through the demands of the work site.

To provide a linkage between the secondary and post-secondary levels, including collegiate level work that begins in the 11th grade and continues through the award of a post-secondary credential.

To integrate classroom instructions and workplace learning, at both secondary levels, designed to ensure that the two components mutually reinforce each other and are seen as part of a single learning process.

To provide connecting activities and other special services designed to help students make a sound connection between the school world and the work world.

Counties Served

Bleckley, Dodge, Laurens, Pulaski, Telfair & Treutlen

Link
Georgia Youth Apprenticeship Program, Georgia Department of Education