Internship Support Material

Resources for Students, Employers, Teachers, and Counselors

Career and Technical Education Support Materials

Check out these manuals for useful information, forms, and guidelines created by the Career and Technical Education Department in Washington State. Career and Technical Education is a planned program of courses and learning experiences that begins with exploration of career options, supports basic academic and life skills, and enables achievement of high academic standards, leadership, preparation for industry-defined work, and advanced and continuing education.

Source Note: The Work-Based Learning Handbooks noted below are a collaboration between Seattle Public Schools' Department of Career and Technical Education and the Federally funded Departments of Education's Challenge Grant and Department of Labor's ITC Grant. We’d like to thank the staff at the Seattle Public School Department of Career and Technical Education and those working in the Challenge / ITC Grant office for their work on creating these handbooks.

FOR STUDENTS

Student Handbooks - Offers materials on conduct, legal issues, questions to ask at the event, and suggestions on how to document their experience and follow-up.

Job Shadowing Handbook
• Student Handbook
• http://www.seattleschools.org/area/cte/downloads/jobshadsthbk.pdf

Internship Handbook
• Student Handbook
• http://www.seattleschools.org/area/cte/downloads/internsstudhbk.pdf

FOR EMPLOYERS

Employer Handbooks - Informs employers about Child Labor Laws and other legal information including forms, tips on how to present to and engage high school-age students, monitoring and evaluation of student and industry participation, and payroll documentation.

Child Labor Laws
For more information about Child Labor Laws, please visit www.teenworkers.lni.wa.gov.

Internship Handbook
• Worksite Supervisor Handbook http://www.seattleschools.org/area/cte/downloads/internswksitesuphbk.pdf

For more forms and useful information, please visit the Seattle Public School’s Career and Technical Education’s Work-Based Learning site at http://www.seattleschools.org/area/cte/wbl.xml

If your company would like to be featured on this site, please contact the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association at admin@washbio.org.

You can also post internships free of charge at http://www.wabio.com/ad/ad_jobs.htm.

TEACHERS AND COUNSELORS

Do you know a student who is particularly interested in science and/or technology? Tell them about Life Sciences Central (LS-Central.com).

For marketing materials for your office, classroom, or friends, please contact the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association at admin@washbio.org.

Classroom Speaker Handbook
If you are interested in having a company representative speak to your students, it’s always beneficial to prepare questions and the format of the presentation ahead of time to be respectful of the presenter and of your students’ time. What do you want the presenter to share? Can you send him/her questions ahead of time? The following handbook provides a helpful guide—from sample questions to a sample thank you note.
http://www.seattleschools.org/area/cte/downloads/speakerstutchrhbk.pdf