Listed below are the most common definitions used in apprenticeship education as well as in the apprenticeship program. Selected terms are defined in the California Labor Code (Division 3, Chapter 4, sections 3070-3099.5) and California Code of Regulations (Title 8. Industrial Relations).
Apprenticeship Program
Plan that contains apprenticeship program standards, committee rules and regulations, related and supplemental instruction course outlines and policy statements for the administration of the apprenticeable occupation.
Apprenticeship Program Sponsor
Joint apprenticeship committee, unilateral labor or management committee, or individual employer program.
Related and Supplemental Instruction
Organized and systematic form of instruction designed to provide the apprentice with knowledge including the theoretical and technical subjects related and supplemental to the skill(s) involved.
Community Classroom
Instructional methodology that uses unpaid on-the-job training experiences at business, industry, and public agency sites to assist students in acquiring competencies (skills, knowledge, and attitudes) necessary to acquire entry-level employment. Community classroom methodology extends instruction and helps the student acquire saleable skills.
Cooperative Vocational Education
Instructional methodology that correlates concurrent, formal, vocational classroom instruction with regularly scheduled, paid, on-the-job training experiences. Cooperative vocational education enables students to develop and refine the occupational competencies needed to acquire, adjust and succeed in an occupation.
Internship
Generic term for workplace learning positions. Participants may or may not be paid.
Job Shadowing
Program in which a student follows and observes an individual on the job for a designated number of hours or days as the individual performs workplace tasks.
Journeyman
Person who has either (1) completed an accredited apprenticeship in his/her craft or (2) completed the equivalent of an apprenticeship in length and content of work experience and all other requirements in the craft which has workers classified as journeyman in the apprenticeable occupation.
On-the-Job Training
Refers to any form of employment training that requires the student to work outside the school and at an actual business or other type of work site.
Pre-Apprenticeship
Remedial programs offered by program sponsors to potential registered apprenticeship program applicants. Content is typically focused on basic skills which must be successfully demonstrated on program entrance examinations.
Registered Apprenticeship Programs
Registered Apprenticeship Programs in California describe those apprenticeable occupations which meet specific state approved standards designed to safeguard the welfare of apprentices and which are registered with the Division of Apprenticeship Standards. It is a relationship between an employer and an employee during which the worker, or apprentice, learns an occupation in a structured program sponsored by a single employer, employer associations, or a jointly sponsored labor/management association.
Work-Based Learning
Learning that occurs at a place of work to provide students with knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to be effective in a variety of workplace settings. Often the work-based learning includes strategies for linking a student's experience at work sites with the content taught at schools. Students are often assisted by workplace mentors who help them learn how to apply academic skills to solving real problems.
Contact Information
John Dunn, Education Programs Consultant
Career
Technical Education Leadership and Instructional Support Office
Career and College Transition Division
California Department of Education
1430 N Street, Suite 4503
Sacramento, CA 95814
