How Do Vocational Schools and ROPs (Regional Occupation Programs) Use the Curriculum?
• Most of our vocational school customers have their departments organized by occupation. Some schools will have at least one teacher fully trained to teach The Workplace Skills Series in each of the occupations they offer. Since the instructor is also an expert in that respective occupation, he or she is able to create and discuss occupation-specific situations where the skills will be utilized. • Other vocational school customers utilize “the rover” approach. One or two teachers from the school are fully trained to teach The Workplace Skills Series. These teachers visit the classrooms of different occupations on a rotating basis. On the days where the “rover” teacher visits, the other teacher who usually teaches the occupation is either given release time, or stays in the classroom and augments the instruction with occupation-specific anecdotes or examples.
