Basic Occupational Education
At the Southern Westchester BOCES Center for Career Services in Valhalla, we provide special education students with career skills and vocational training that can give them a head start in the job market, brighten their futures, and build their self-esteem.
The Basic Occupational Education Program offers practical, hands-on career training for students. It is designed to be a self-contained special education program with an occupational/vocational curriculum, conforming to requirements of the New York State Education Department.
The program provides one teacher and one teacher aide per class, and the Phase ll of the IEP (Occ Ed Component) is developed on behalf of each student. All our programs are half day. Students spend from one to three years in the program, depending on their learning rate. Many students are placed in jobs for which they were trained or they advance to post-secondary education. Students entering the program must be at least 15 years of age and classified as a special education student.
Basic Occupational Education Program
Supervisor: Colleen Murray
914-761-3400, ext. 222
cmurray@swboces.org |
OUR SERVICES
All of the Basic Occupational Education programs of study are individualized so that each student can reach his or her potential. Handling day-to-day challenges associated with the workplace, developing appropriate employable skills, and learning to interact socially are important aspects of our curriculum. On-site work experience and internships are also available through the program to many of our students.
In addition, the Basic program provides the following services, crucial to a student’s success both in the classroom and the real world:
- Counseling
- Crisis intervention
- Vocational assessment
- Sign language interpreting and tutoring for students who are deaf or hard of hearing
- Foreign language translation services
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