Date posted: March 30, 2023
Occupational & Life Skills Bellevue College (OLSBC) Critical Thinking through Writing students spent winter quarter learning about many types of writing and how pieces they create can be used to express their voices. Social issues affect everyone, and there are many social issues that were discussed in class during a class brainstorm. Students then had ...more about OLS Bellevue College Students Create Social Issues Comic Strips
Date posted: March 23, 2023
The Occuaptional & Life Skills Bellevue College (OLSBC) Communication in the Workplace class had their Mock Interviews on March 8th. Preparing for the mock interview This is a quarter long preparation for the students in getting ready for these interviews. We start with communication skills with customers and coworkers as well as conflict resolution. We ...more about OLS Bellevue College Students Participate in Mock Interviews
Date posted: March 23, 2023
In February, Environment and Our Community students got a close-up look at how those two things – environment and community – will work together in the future. The class had a private tour of Seattle’s Bullitt Center, billed as “The Greenest Commercial Building in the World.” The most visible “green” feature is the overhanging roof, ...more about OLS Bellevue College Students Visit Seattle’s Bullitt Center
Date posted: March 9, 2023
Second-year students in the Occupational & Life Skills Bellevue College (OLSBC) program were tasked with a research project in their Disability Awareness course. Famous Person Research Project Students researched a famous person with a disability similar to their own disability. Classroom presentations included students talking about their disability and comparing the experiences of the famous ...more about OLS Bellevue College Disability Awareness Research Project
Date posted: March 2, 2023
In the fourth year at OLSBC, students participate in a 200+ hour internship with a local business. All our internships are specific to each student and their career pathway. Throughout winter and spring quarters, look for our Internship Stories on our website and social media pages. Intern: Zana Place of Internship: Blossoms Childcare, Bellevue Internship ...more about OLS Bellevue College Student Interns at Blossom Care
Date posted: February 16, 2023
The Occupational & Life Skills Bellevue College (OLSBC) Disability Awareness course is designed to increase students' understanding of disabilities and self-determine disability-related needs through research and reflection. In addition, this course helps students to be better prepared for self-advocating in the community and at the workplace. Second-year students enrolled in the course had the opportunity ...more about OLS Bellevue College Students Visit Microsoft Inclusive Tech Lab
Date posted: February 14, 2023
In the fourth year at OLS, students participate in a 200+ hour internship with a local business. All our internships are specific to each student and their career pathway. Throughout winter and spring quarters, look for our Internship Stories on our website and social media pages. Intern: Allison Place of Internship: BC Early Learning Center ...more about Internship at BC Early Learning Center
Date posted: December 29, 2022
A student came into the Social Change classroom one recent morning expressing outrage at something she had seen in the Pizza Café, near the dorms on Main Campus. Social Change in America teaches students ways they can take action to solve problems in their local communities. They learn six different methods such as elevating awareness ...more about Social Change and the $8.50 Soda
Date posted: December 29, 2022
Students in the Fall 2022 Self-Determination in the Workplace course worked in groups to research the different resources Bellevue College has to offer. The goal of this project was to find information about BC’s programs that would be useful for OLS Students to access. Each group was assigned a different program offered through Bellevue College. ...more about OLS Students Research Bellevue College Resources
Date posted: December 13, 2022
In the OLS Mindfulness course, students study how Mindfulness can be applied to various aspects of their daily lives. Using Mindfulness techniques can improve well-being and health in many ways, such as calming down before a stressing event, scanning the body for tension to help us fall asleep, controlling emotions by labeling them and using ...more about Mindful Eating
