Gitpo Spirit Lodge provides all skills development and wellness programs through our all-in-one platform making it easy, effective and manageable for our partners and learners.
Skills Management Platform
Multiple User Access (Administrators, Instructors, Learners).
Robust Reporting System.
Certification and Gamification System.
Custom Content Development System.
Multilingual that Supports User Language Preference.
Access to a growing library of assessment and content
The scope of the platform is growing
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Skills Assessment Library
Skills Gap Assessment ensures individual job and career aspirations are aligned with current capabilities. Properly understanding an individual’s skills gap with a personalized job role or subject based assessment will help determine the right learning path and growth plan.
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Skills Content Library
Library includes content across 200 categories. With over 3,700 curated skill training and development programs that continue to expand as we continue to support more industries, more job roles, more employees, and more students. You can also customize and develop your own content to support your unique training and skills development needs.
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Work Experiences
We provide Work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences that include an engaged partnership of at least: an academic institution, a host organization and a student. WIL can occur at the course or program level and includes the development of learning outcomes related to employability, personal agency and life-long learning. The work experiences are compounded with the skills platform to ensure learning on the go and so that our users are supported while on the job. We call this WIL+Skills.
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Virtual Reality
Vocational skills development in the virtual world is lacking, so we have decided to build programs that can support many trade industries and other job roles that have a need for hands on learning. As part of the program, we commit to providing each learner with access to all the resources they need to be effective in their development. Coming 2022!
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Network of Global partnerships
We are a collaborative company focused on bringing together the best of the best to support skills development for all. This includes individual contributors, communities, Industry leaders, employers, educators and governments. "Alone we can go fast, together we can go far" - African proverb
An integrated platform.
Our integrated solutions and services support our partners with resources they need to manage their students, their employees or they network. This includes all content, the management system + work integrated experiences.
Your job description can be concise and should include the following:
position title
organization / group description
activities and tasks to be assigned to student
desired skills and experience
project challenge, opportunity, of description of work you require.
Mandatory requirements (language, year of study, security clearance, citizenship)
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Your job description can be concise and should include the following:
position title
organization / group description
activities and tasks to be assigned to student
desired skills and experience
project challenge, opportunity, of description of work you require.
Mandatory requirements (language, year of study, security clearance, citizenship)
Co-operative education is a three-way partnership between the university, students and employers. Students apply their classroom knowledge in a series of four-month work experiences. You, the employer, enhance a student’s education, while reaping the unique benefits of CO-OP employees.
Most work terms run at least 15 weeks, or four months. They can be no shorter than 13 weeks. Some master’s students, as well as some science and engineering students, are available for 8 or 12 months’ work terms.
All jobs are reviewed by a CO-OP Program Coordinator, and only those providing students with work experience related to their professional development are approved. Administrative activities involved in a job should be less than 10% of the entire workload.
When you first contact SSC, you are assigned one of our Program Coordinators, depending on your discipline of interest. This person is your main contact in our office. As you move through the recruitment process, you also work with a representative from CO-OP Administrative Services, who assists with job posting and interview scheduling.
We are looking forward to working together! Please complete the following form. Our team will then set-up your profile and provide access to our management system where all the magic happens. You will receive an email with 24 hours that will include your login details.
Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Internships may occur in the middle of an academic program or after all academic coursework has been completed and prior to graduation. Internships can be of any length but are typically 12 to 16 months long.
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Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
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Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
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Co-op alternating consists of alternating academic terms and paid work terms. Co-op internship consists of several co-op work terms back-to-back. In both models, work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study. The number of required work terms varies by program; however, the time spent in work terms must be at least 30% of the time spent in academic study for programs over 2 years in length and 25% of time for programs 2 years and shorter in length.
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Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
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Apprenticeship is an agreement between a person (an apprentice) who wants to learn a skill and an employer who needs a skilled worker and who is willing to sponsor the apprentice and provide paid related practical experience under the direction of a certified journeyperson in a work environment conducive to learning the tasks, activities and functions of a skilled worker. Apprenticeship combines about 80% at-the-workplace experience with 20% technical classroom training, and depending on the trade, takes about 2-5 years to complete. Both the workplace experience and the technical training are essential components of the learning experience.
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Entrepreneurship allows a student to leverage resources, space, mentorship and/or funding to engage in the early-stage development of business start-ups and/or to advance external ideas that address real-world needs for academic credit.
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Applied Research students are engaged in research that occurs primarily in workplaces, including consulting projects, design projects, and community-based research projects.
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Both the Ontario and the Quebec governments provide a Co-operative Education Tax Credit to businesses hiring students enrolled in a recognized CO-OP education program.
NEW: Enhancing the Co-operative Education Tax Credit
The 2009 Ontario Budget introduced enhancements to the Co-operative Education Tax Credit (CETC), effective for eligible expenditures incurred after March 26, 2009, that will:
increase the 10 per cent CETC rate to 25 per cent and the enhanced 15 per cent rate for small businesses to 30 per cent;
increase the maximum tax credit available from $1,000 to $3,000 per work placement.
There are opportunities that could help financial support employers.
For other programs on funding, please visit the following web sites:
Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
