After learning from parent phone interviews that many apprentices were not enrolled in academic courses related to their apprenticeship, and that parents tended to accept whatever courses their sons and daughters took, we initiated a multi-pronged effort to change enrollment patterns, with employers, college admissions representatives, school faculty and guidance as well as with youth and parents. Colored markers at each pad. Stands, props or masking tape for pads. First, small groups brainstorm and discuss these connections, and then come back together to share what they discovered.
Parents accompany their son or daughter.
Leader could be a parent employed in this career area. Tape newsprint to wall. Many of our apprentices have discovered through their apprenticeship that they could take a higher level science or math and that they could do well in those more challenging courses.