Adaptability in Youth Apprenticeship: Meeting the Needs of Students and Employers
The Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship Blog Series
Blog Post
Dec. 11, 2018
The Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship (PAYA) released guiding principles for high-quality youth apprenticeship programs. You can read more about each principle and their related outcomes in the full document here. Over the coming weeks as part of its first blog series, members of the partnership will be exploring these principles in-depth and why each is important to both the expansion and quality of youth apprenticeship across the country.
Check out the third post from Eric Seleznow and Charlotte Cahill at JFF about the adaptability principle, which ensures learning through youth apprenticeship is designed collaboratively to be recognized and valued across an industry or sector.
"Youth apprenticeships aren’t intended to simply get a student a job. Rather, they are meant to teach young people a broad range of skills and knowledge that youth can use to launch successful careers and identify areas to pursue in greater depth in postsecondary education and/or training. This means that youth apprenticeships have to be broad enough to meet the common needs across an industry while also having enough flexibility to incorporate the individual needs of employers."
Click here to read the entire post from JFF.