Building hope is the foundational goal of West Valley. We function off of the mission, "to ensure that all students achieve their highest level of knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to be responsible and productive citizens."
Investing in the future of our students and investing in the future of our staff is not mutually exclusive. Research is clear, the better trained our staff the better our students perform. It was a natural decision to blend out commitment to apprenticeship and our commitment to professional development to launch the Para Educator Registered Apprenticeship with state partner, Public Schools Employees (PSE), and local partner, Teamsters Local Union 760.
Currently employed para educators can apply for and be selected to join our Para Educator registered apprenticeship. Apprentices have two pathways, Para Educator I and Para Educator II, where they work toward an associates degree in para educator through Green River Community College, fully online and as members of the apprenticeship, at 50% tuition.
Our goal is to connect our paras to newly adopted Bachelor's of Applied Science of Teacher Education degrees newly emerging across Washington State where working paras with associate degrees can earn K-8 Teaching degrees.
If we are committed to connecting our community to better lives then it is important to we think of ourselves as the employers and not just the educators in that mission.
To learn more about the Para Educator Apprenticeship, click here:
https://www.educationapprenticeship.com/
To learn more about the Yakima Valley College BAS-TE program, click here:
https://www.yvcc.edu/academics/baste/
To lean more about West Valley Futures Career Pathways, click here:
https://wvfutures.org/
No comments:
Post a Comment