WORK-BASED LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Work-based
learning is an integral part of Career-Technical Education.
Work-based learning includes a number of different types
of activities that can be scheduled from shorter-term, introductory
types of experiences to longer-term, more intensive formal
training, including paid work experiences. Work-based learning
activities generally involve schools and employers working
together to devise objectives, activities and work tasks,
and, sometimes, criteria for monitoring or assessing students.
Job
Shadowing: A student follows an employee for one or
more days to learn about a particular occupation or industry.
Job shadowing is intended to help students explore a range
of career objectives and select a career program for the
latter part of high school.
Mentoring: A
student is paired with an employee over an extended period
of time. The employee helps the student learn certain skills
and knowledge the employee possesses, models workplace behavior,
challenges the student to perform well, and assesses the
student's performance.
Internships: For
a specified period of time, students work for an employer
to learn about a particular industry or occupation.
On-the-Job
Training: Through their jobs in the workplace, students
receive hands-on-training in specific occupational skills.
Cooperative
Education: A method of instruction whereby students
alternate or parallel their academic and vocational studies
with a paid job in a related field.
Youth
Apprenticeship: Typically, multi-year programs that
combine school-and-work-based learning in a specific occupational
area and are designed to lead directly into either a related
postsecondary job, entry-level job, or registered apprenticeship
program.
Early
Placement: students have the opportunity to apply skills
learned in their respective lab, through on the job placement
the second semester of their senior year.
