How I Turned My Teen’s Summer Job Into Six High School Credits
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I love providing this review of Internship For High School Credit from Apologia Educational Ministries because this is the exact product I wished we had last year when my oldest took on a great summer job. I can recommend this straight forward, sequential workbook that answers all of the recording and logging I was keeping in my note book and so much more. Get ready to turn you teen’s job into High School credit with confidence.
Summer Work Can Equal School Year Credits
My son worked for a general contractor. This meant that his elective credit opportunities were very high. My son worked full time through the summer and part of the fall so, it was easy to meet that 150 hour threshold for a full semester credit in several classes. You child only needs 75 hours for a half credit for your transcript. With more hours, my son was able to earn a General Carpentry Credit for the spring semester on his pervious school year and Advanced Carpentry on his fall semester. There was also a General Machine Shop Credit, for learning about tools, general safety practices and maintenance. He learned to properly cut, measure and collect materials for a job site. He earned fall credits for Advanced Machine Shop when he progressed to using larger equipment like the tile saw. By the end of his time working he was trusted to cut tile for a full bathroom remodel easily proving mastery of his newly acquired skills in practice. With a little research and record keeping, five months of paid skill learning earned four elective credits for my son’s high school transcript.
Taking Working Skills Back Into the Class Room
I love the idea of taking what my kids are leaning and pushing it one step farther. Apologia has provided a simple way to gather the information your teen is learning on the job into a easy to fill and follow portfolio. This gives you a second layer of credit for your transcript with a formal Internship Course which gave my son two more credits. I knew I was keeping records for the things my son was learning, but Internship For High School Credit covers so much more that I had even thought of.
Weekly Worksheets for Two Semesters (each 16 weeks) are completely explained so your student can begin logging their information with ease right from the start. They can set goals, log hours, keep important information handy and log their questions and observations. There are also many thoughtful questions that will help you student look at what they are learning, and themselves deeper. These question and answers easily give your student a course for transcript credit and skills for life they will use over and over again.
This is The Tool to Have Before Your Job Search Begins
This could be your guide from the very start of the job searching process. Part One covers: Getting Started, from determining what type of internship your child is interested in, to resume and interview instructions. Including the follow up thank you note. See you don’t have to say it 1,000 times, because it is right there, in black and while, now write the note!
We have already used the information on resume building to help us start categorizing skills and learning experiences we want to use for each of our kids. I will be sure to add this notebook to each of my kids curriculum as they get summer jobs or serve in internships in the future as well. I kind of wish I would have filled one of these out for my first job. What a treasure that would have been to look back on now.
Thanks so much! Loved the price at rainbowresource as well. Sometimes I forget about their site. Just bought it. Appreciate your insights 🙂
I have 2 teens doing internships at our church for the summer this year. One may continue as a year-round, but the other one is halfway through her internship. I’m unsure of the level of documentation required for their internships to be considered as a class. In SC where we live, a fine arts class only needs documentation for the hours put towards the class. Do you think this would be very helpful to us at this point – I know the book goes through how to find an internship as well. I just don’t want to purchase it and then feel like we’ve already missed a lot the steps covered. Thanks for your article!
Cyndi, I would have loved to have had this book for my first job. I also read my husbands college internship course journal and the set up was very similar. I think that if you are halfway through an internship I would hold off but, if you are thinking about continuing for another semester it is a great way to help your teen be intentional about learning meaningful skills while on the job. Internships go by so fast. It is easy to get so caught up in the “doing” that you don’t stop to catagorize what you are really learning. These skills are what you can apply to a future resume. I did see that it was listed from Rainbow Resource for just under $25. http://www.rainbowresource.com/proddtl.php?id=067876