Cooperative Education provides secondary school students the ability to earn credits while working in a community outside of their school. Students will have the opportunity to develop personal and workplace skills important to their career and life planning.
Community Partners Information
Community Partners can get involved in a number of different ways. Please consider the following opportunities:
In-Person Co-op
- Student attends to your place of business or organization
- We work with you to ensure that health and safety training standards and appropriate PPE are met prior to the start of placement
- Teachers support student learning with regular placement visits and meetings
- Students can work for 3 to 6 hours per day for approximately 4 months per semester
- Click here to register your business or organization
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If you would like more information you can read the Supervisor's Handbook or contact Co-op and OYAP Coordinator, David Hubbard at (613) 596-8286 / david.hubbard@ocdsb.ca.
Virtual Co-op
- Students and their teacher engage with your business or organization through video chat, email, and telephone
- Student completes tasks that can be done virtually
- Examples include: market research, data entry, website development, graphic design, administrative support, blog writing, social media content development, etc.
- Students can work for 3 to 6 hours per day for approximately 4 months per semester
- Click hereto register your business or organization
Short Term Support for *New* Co-op Course
- Community Partners can support student learning by volunteering to share their expertise and experience through interviews, seminars, presentations, mentorship, short term projects, etc.
- Level of engagement can be one time only or reoccuring during the semester
- Click here to register your business or organization
Student Information
At most sites, students will have the option to choose between in-person, virtual, or the new blended learning co-op course called “Creating Opportunities through Co-op”.
It is expected that our normal volume of in-person placements will be reduced. Co-op teachers will work with individual students over the next few weeks to set up as many in-person and virtual placements as possible, knowing that the “Creating Opportunities through Co-op” course is available should it be required. This course will involve direct interaction with industry partners on a regular basis and has the potential to include a short term virtual placement.
Please contact the homeschool Co-op teacher for specific questions around placements and timelines.
- Want to earn credits for both your high school diploma and College degree/diploma at the same time? Check out The Dual Credit Program.
- Are you interested in doing a co-op placement in a skilled trade? Check out OYAP.com and OYAP at the OCDSB.
- The Ministry of Education’s website provides plenty of information about careers and the career paths you can take.
- Here is a printable PDF which contains an overview of co-op as well as some career pathway examples.