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School-to-Work Programs

1. What specific experiences do you have with school-to-work programs? How do the three components (school-based learning, work-based learning, and linkages) provide meaning to these programs? If you don't have specific experience with these programs, what reflections or insights can you provide us about school-to-work?

Because law enforcement requires highly specialized training, not only in on-the-job skills but also in performing work in accordance with legally defined protocols, there has been limited exposure of this author to school-to-work programs, except in respect of encounters with juvenile offenders and adults whose lack of academic or vocational training can be linked to their landing in the justice system. Public schools' failure to adequately prepare children to enter the real-world work environment, where children are not the center of everybody's universe but where people must find ways to work together or otherwise cooperate to accomplish specific tasks, is borne out in the inability of some who leave school to adjust to the discipline they need to create constructive lives for themselves. The quality of the transition from the shelter of school life to the unforgiving real world of work has to be managed at some level, and those who have some idea of what they will encounter when they leave school should have a better chance. In that regard, even though Finch and Crunkilton point out problems with implementation, the tech prep approach seems best grounded in the young person's encounter between a school and a work environment (1999, p. 265) that is going to be continually changing, particularly in the matter of technology innovation.

2. What has worked and what has not worked for you in the following areas?: Individualized instruction; Modularized instruction; Competency-based education.

Each kind of instruction is part of the program for creation of a competent law-enforcement officer. The mentoring of rook...

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