Tech Prep: Work-based Learning

Job Shadowing Experiences
Creating opportunities for learners to follow employees through a work cycle in order to see all aspects of their profession. Those who have this opportunity to observe all aspects of an industry, or business may be students and/or teachers.

Classroom Presentations
Business and Industry representatives meeting with groups of
students in formal classroom settings, or in career day conferences.
An opportunity to describe your profession to future members of the
workforce in a way that creates a clear understanding of what is "done" and the skills needed to "do it."

Internships for Advanced Learners
Internship programs for those learners who are preparing to enter a specific field of business or industry. This experience would be a long term training-working experience that transfers classroom training to the worksite.

Formal Apprenticeships
A learner becomes an apprentice in a formal apprenticeship program to become a journeyman. This experience is the result of a partnership that involves the sponsoring company, the learner, the trade (labor representative), and the learner’s educational system. At the successful completion of a formal apprenticeship the learner is a certified journeyman in that specific trade.

A Tailored Work-Based Partnership
A partnership that is expressly designed for an individual business and an educational institution. These programs are designed to expand learning opportunities for students, and to introduce workplace experienced in a certain business or industry.

It's a partnership! It's a community-based system! It's an opportunity!

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