TYPES OF WORK-BASED LEARNING
The following major resource section provides a great deal of information related to the following specific types of work based learning: Job Shadowing, Service Learning, Student Entrepreneurship, Unpaid Work Experience, Paid Work Experience, Supported Employment, Cooperative Work Experience, Internship, and Apprenticeship.
For each of these there is definitional information, a description of benefits, information about setting up this type of experience, and information on making connections to the classroom. This information was taken from the 1998 Vermont Work-Based Learning Manual and adapted.
For more information on the various WBL activities, click on the link below.
Job Shadowing - An unpaid experience where a student follows an employer for a short period of time (a few hours to an entire day) to learn about a particular occupation or industry.
Unpaid Work Experience - An unpaid work experience is a limited-term opportunity, longer than a job shadow, for students to learn about a particular occupation or industry by working at a specific workplace.
Internship - Student internships are situations where students work for an employer for a specified period of time to learn about a particular industry or occupation. Student’s workplace activities may include special projects, a sample of tasks from different jobs, or tasks from a single occupation.
Paid Work Experience - A structured paid work experience is a competency-based, educational experience which occurs at the work site and is tied to a student’s curriculum. The experience is guided by a training plan which coordinates and integrates a student’s school-based instruction with a work site experience.
Cooperative Work Experience - a program of work experience in an actual employment setting related to the vocational interests and educational programs provided to a student at an area vocational/technical education center.
Supported Employment - Enables students with disabilities to gain paid employment where they are supported by an employment specialist to obtain and maintain the job. who have not been successfully employed to work and contribute to society.
Apprenticeship - An agreement through which the apprentice gains instruction and support in exchange for work. The apprentice learns with masters of the trade, craft, or profession and begins an occupational career while contributing to the productivity of the enterprise.
The following major resource section provides a great deal of information related to the following specific types of work based learning: Job Shadowing, Service Learning, Student Entrepreneurship, Unpaid Work Experience, Paid Work Experience, Supported Employment, Cooperative Work Experience, Internship, and Apprenticeship.
For each of these there is definitional information, a description of benefits, information about setting up this type of experience, and information on making connections to the classroom. This information was taken from the 1998 Vermont Work-Based Learning Manual and adapted.
For more information on the various WBL activities, click on the link below.
Job Shadowing - An unpaid experience where a student follows an employer for a short period of time (a few hours to an entire day) to learn about a particular occupation or industry.
Unpaid Work Experience - An unpaid work experience is a limited-term opportunity, longer than a job shadow, for students to learn about a particular occupation or industry by working at a specific workplace.
Internship - Student internships are situations where students work for an employer for a specified period of time to learn about a particular industry or occupation. Student’s workplace activities may include special projects, a sample of tasks from different jobs, or tasks from a single occupation.
Paid Work Experience - A structured paid work experience is a competency-based, educational experience which occurs at the work site and is tied to a student’s curriculum. The experience is guided by a training plan which coordinates and integrates a student’s school-based instruction with a work site experience.
Cooperative Work Experience - a program of work experience in an actual employment setting related to the vocational interests and educational programs provided to a student at an area vocational/technical education center.
Supported Employment - Enables students with disabilities to gain paid employment where they are supported by an employment specialist to obtain and maintain the job. who have not been successfully employed to work and contribute to society.
Apprenticeship - An agreement through which the apprentice gains instruction and support in exchange for work. The apprentice learns with masters of the trade, craft, or profession and begins an occupational career while contributing to the productivity of the enterprise.