The Most Awesome Field
Trip!
Conestoga College
RPT #7 Grand Connections
Rosie Hessian
Manager Pathway Development and Youth Engagement
Stephen Speers
Chair, Trades and Apprenticeship
SCWI Spring Symposium 2016
Collaboration and Teamwork – Creating
Pathways to Success
• providing expanded
access to postsecondary
programming and
meaningful supports
to encourage
successful transitions.
Let’s Go!
• This workshop will discuss how to ensure
dual credit students in off-campus
programs participate in a rich on campus
experience as well as creating postsecondary pathway awareness through
additional hands-on experiences, program
information, and career planning
What is a Team Taught
Program
… Policy
Ministry Policy…
• Dual credit programs may
be delivered in various
college or school board
locations, as appropriate …
• Secondary schools
• College campuses,
• College skills-training
centres,
• Alternative schools
• Off campus locations
…more policy
• A college professor or
instructor delivers and
evaluates the student for the
portion of the course from the
college curriculum,
• Secondary school teacher
delivers and evaluates the
student for the portion
contained in the Ontario
curriculum course.
• College will provide a “Record
from the College” for the
college course
• For team-taught dual credit courses, Ontario secondary school
curriculum course codes will be used.
• The course delivery type must be flagged as “team-taught college
course” or “team-taught apprenticeship program” in 7.
• For more information on reporting credits from all types of dual credit
programs, see The Ontario Student Transcript (OST): Manual, 2013
(forthcoming). Program Delivery 15 the school student management
system. On the OST, the words dual credit will appear in
parentheses following the course title.
• The credit for a successfully completed course awarded by the
college will be noted in a record issued to the student by the college.
Why do we have field trips?
Pathways…
Dual Credit has successfully transitioned students to post-secondary
education by introducing post-secondary education as a pathway to
employment and creating awareness of College life and resources that
support student retention.
Expanding Pathways
• Expanding pathways for TT Programs
• Relevant experiences at the College
• Equipment not available at the high school
shop
• Different environment
• Campus tours
• Career exploration
Student Engagement!!
… have you ever seen a student
snap chat something they have
created…?
…tweet a pic of something they
made or have done?
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How
to fund the field trip?
• EDCS input Transportation funding
• Alternate funding – be creative…
• “Chef Scotty Cooks”
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Where would we go on a field
trip?
• Other college
campuses
• Related industry
outing
• Explore Days etc.
• SWAC program field
trips
TNT Days
• Workshops for girls
• Waterloo Cambridge,
Guelph campuses
• Construction/ Welding
• Architecture
• Motive power
Jill of All Trades
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June 1, 2016
Cambridge Campus
175 young girls
12 different
workshops
• SWAG
• Promote women in
trades
Dual Credit Teacher Forum
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“Magic School Bus Tour..”
Tour locations of dual credits
Engaging students along the way…
Multiple colleges
Questions? Comments?