Cooperative Education (Co-op) is a learning partnership program that provides students with valuable work experience in the community while they are earning credits towards their graduation diploma. Co-op involves both a classroom component and a work placement component.
Experiential learning through cooperative education is available to students starting in grade 11.
Creating Opportunities Through Co-op (Grade 11 and 12)
This course consists of a learning experience connected to a community and a cooperative education curriculum focused on developing skills, knowledge, and habits of mind that will support students in their learning, including their education and career/life planning, at school and beyond, today and in the future. Within the context of their experience connected to a community partner, students will apply skills, knowledge, and habits of mind that will protect and promote their health, safety, and well-being and will strengthen their inquiry, decision making, and leadership skills. Students will create and implement a learning plan that meets their particular interests and needs, reflect on their learning, and make connections between their experience in the community and other aspects of their lives.
Additional Opportunities:
- Summer Co-op
- College Cooperative Education Program (CCEP)
- University Cooperative Education Program (UCEP)
- Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP)
- School Within A College (SWAC)
- College Apprenticeship Preparation Program (CAPP)
Visit el.wcdsb.ca for more information about Experiential Education programs
