Education for Employment courses prepare students with special needs for independent living and productive careers.

Students explore independent living and workplace skills by identifying individual assets, interests, aptitudes, talents, and current occupational abilities. Through practical experiences related to daily living and work, students determine strategies to improve their assets and ways to emphasize their strengths at home, school, and in the workplace.

Students begin to make the transition from school to work by gaining technical skills, conducting a job search, and maintaining successful employment by demonstrating positive work traits and attitudes and continuing to develop technical skills. Students focus on balancing their roles of worker, family member, and citizen.

The Work Experience Cooperative Education Program (WECEP) is an extension of the classroom instruction coordinated by the classroom teacher into a coherent set of performance objectives and skills. Students receive school-based and community-based instruction organized around an approved job that leads toward their career goal. The teacher-coordinator, on-the-job training sponsor, parent, and student develop an individualized training plan that identifies learning experiences according to the student's occupational objective.