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School-To-Registered Apprenticeship Program

The School-To-Registered Apprenticeship Program (STRAP) is an innovative approach to education and training that allows qualified high school students to effectively bridge the gap between high school and the world of work by means of registered apprenticeship. STRAP is a program of the U.S. Department of Labor that allows students 16-17 years old to work in occupations that generally require a minimum age of 18.

APPRENTICESHIP APPROACHES:

a. COMPETENCY-BASED APPROACH: Measures skill acquisition through the individual apprentice’s successful demonstration of acquired skills and knowledge, as verified by the program sponsor. Programs utilizing this approach must still require apprentices to complete an on-the-job learning component of Registered Apprenticeship. The program standards must address how on-the-job learning will be integrated into the program, describe competencies, and identify an appropriate means of testing and evaluation for such competencies. b. HYBRID APPROACH: Measures the individual apprentice’s skill acquisition through a combination of specified minimum number of hours of on-the-job learning and the successful demonstration of competency as described in a work process schedule. c. TIME-BASED APPROACH: Measures skill acquisition through the individual apprentice’s completion of at least 2,000 hours of on-the-job learning as described in a work process schedule.

TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:

a. ON-THE-JOB LEARNING (OJL): Tasks learned on-the-job, in which the apprentice must become proficient before a completion certificate is awarded. The learning must be through structured, supervised work experience. b. RELATED INSTRUCTION: Means an organized and systematic form of instruction designed to provide the apprentice with the knowledge of the theoretical and technical subjects related to the apprentice’s occupation. Such instruction may be given in a classroom, through occupational or industrial courses, or by correspondence courses of equivalent value, electronic media, or other forms of self-study approved by the Office of Apprenticeship. c. WORK PROCESS SCHEDULE: An outline of the tasks in which the apprentice will receive supervised work experience and training on the job, and the allocation of the approximate amount of time to be spent in each major process.