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Work-Based Learning

Work-based Learning

  • Work-Based Learning is an educational tactic designed to give students real-life work experience in the workplace.  
  • Types of work-based learning:
    • Structured Field Study: planned experiences that allow students to explore career pathways. Students observe, ask questions, and participate in activities that help them gain an understanding of job roles & responsibilities.

    • Job Shadowing: introduces a student to different careers and helps them decide which jobs would be the best fit for them. This opportunity involves listening and observing employee(s) at worksite or virtually.

    • Internship: gives a student the opportunity for career exploration and development, and to learn new skills. This is experience is supervised, structured learning experiences in a professional setting that allow you to gain valuable work experience in a student’s chosen field of study.

    • Apprenticeship: gives the student at least age 16 or older an opportunity to earn and learn. The student connects classroom learning with one to two years of on-the-job training resulting in earning a certification or mastering a technical skill.

    • Career Mentoring is an experience that involves a worksite employee willing to guide and challenge the student as well as discuss with classroom teachers strategies to build work readiness skills.

    • School Based Enterprise: encourages the development of a business that is created, managed, and operated by student sin a school setting. Student get to explore and experience business foundations and entrepreneurial practices through business-related school activities.

Job Shadowing

CCR Points

  • What is a CCR Point and ways to achieve it? Having a CCR point means to be college and career ready and to be college and career ready means that an individual is prepared to be successful in the workplace and higher education.

  • Work Based Learning-CCR 

  • To be college-ready, a student must meet one of the following: 
    • Scores a composite score of 20 or higher on the ACT; 

    • Scores a composite score of 1020 or higher on the SAT; 

    • Scores a 3 or higher on an Advanced Placement (AP) exam; 

    • Scores a 4 or higher on an International Baccalaureate (IB) assessment. Only higher learning (HL) exams may count; or 

    • Completes at least six (6) credit hours in dual enrollment courses with a grade of C or higher. 

  • To be career-ready, a student must meet one of the following:
    • Is a CTE completer and earns a national or state industry credential as determined by the business community; or 

    • Earns a Level 3, 4, or 5 on the state-approved career readiness assessment; or 

    • Earns a scale score of 31 or higher on the ASVAB; or 

    • Successfully completes a state-approved work-based learning program