Work Experience Policy
LCC WORK EXPERIENCE POLICY
1. I ISS Language and Career College of BC ensures that work experience placements
provide an opportunity for its students to enhance the skills learned throughout
completion of a program of study.
2. Co-op placements: ISS Language and Career College of BC prepares students to find
work experience placements as part of a Career Co-op program, approves
placements before students begin work, and provides additional support in finding a
placement at an extra cost for those students who require it.
3. ISS Language and Career College of BC works with work experience placement hosts
to evaluate the student’s performance during a work experience placement.
Procedure:
1. Career Co-op work experience placements are found by students themselves; they
have the option of requesting extra job-hunting support from a staff member.
2. TESOL practicums are arranged in our own classes by the TESOL Coordinator.
3. For TESOL Diploma Program practicums:
a. When a student is ready for a teaching practicum (having successfully
completed the TESOL program with a minimum 85% average), the
Instructional Coordinator arranges a placement with a sponsor teacher
(within ISS), and ensures that the teacher has a copy of the Guidelines and
Student Evaluation Form.
b. During the practicum, the student is responsible for submitting timesheets
(initialed by their sponsor teachers) to the Instructional Coordinator, who will
file them in the student’s file.
c. At the end of the teaching practicum, the sponsor teacher fills out the
Student Evaluation form; the original goes to the student’s file, and a copy
goes to the Instructional Coordinator, who ensures that copies of the
assessment go to the Practicum file and the student.
4. For Career Co-op Diploma placements:
a. When students are ready for a work experience placement (during their final
diploma program (Professional Communication and Marketing, International
Business Management Skills, Global Tourism Diploma or TESOL)), an ISS
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Language and Career College of BC staff member will meet with them to
discuss their job search, and provide them with:
i. An information sheet containing SAW program details, job websites
and agencies
ii. A workplace approval form to be completed by the student when a
job is found, and to be submitted to ISS Language and Career College
of BC for approval
iii. A monthly report form and timesheet (attendance form) for the
students’ first month of work
iv. An employer evaluation form and envelope for their employer to
complete and mail at the end of the work component
b. If students fail to meet the attendance and performance requirements of
their courses, they do not qualify for a co-op placement, and e-mails
specifying that the students are not entitled to use their work visas will go to
the student. Citizenship and Immigration Canada will be informed via their
online reporting system.
i. If Career Co-op students fail to meet attendance requirements, they
will have an option to register for and attend extra classes. If this is
successful, they will not lose their place in the program.
ii. If Career Co-op students fail to achieve a 70% grade in any Diploma
course, they will have an option to resubmit work or retake a failed
course at a later date. If this is successful, they will not lose their
place in the program.
c. Upon successful graduation of the study component, the student is
responsible for finding a worksite. If the student has difficulty finding work,
employment search support can be arranged with an LCC instructor for a fee,
at our current tutorial rate. An ISS Language and Career College of BC staff
member contacts the proposed Career Co-op worksite to confirm
information provided by the student and to assess the commitment of the
training place host to enhancing student learning. The staff member explains
the school’s expectations with respect to limits on hours worked and
evaluation of student performance.
d. If the training place host is approved to accept work experience students, an
approval form is signed and the host’s name and contact information are
entered on the school’s roster of work experience placement sites.
e. Students in a work placement will submit a monthly timesheet (signed
weekly by their supervisor) and progress report to ISS Language and Career
College of BC, ensuring that co-op employment does not form more than
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50% of the total program of study, and these will be placed in the student’s
file.
f. Employers will complete an Evaluation Form regarding the performance of
the students at the end of their work placements, and mail it to ISS Language
and Career College of BC. A copy will be made for the student, and the
original assessment placed in the student’s file.
i. Staff members will utilize the Evaluation Forms to plan the most
useful tutorial activities for the students after their work placements.
g. A Career Co-op Diploma will be issued only if students complete all
requirements of both the Study and the Work components of the program.
A Certificate of Participation may be requested by the student if a Diploma is
not awarded.