Who should be involved in the design and assessment of a complete work-based learning system? Join a discussion of how to develop a team to include students, advisory board members, career and academic core teachers and counselors.
2. Introduction and Goals of Workshop
Who is in the Room?
Goals
o How Does WBL Help Students Become College and
Career Ready?
o What Should be Included in the Design of a WBL
System and Why?
o Who Should be Involved in the Design?
o How and When Do We Assess It?
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3. What Has To Happen To
Improve Student Learning?
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4. C&CR & Student WBLI Assessment
C&CR definition is the basis for WBL
Assessments related to C&CR outcomes will be
used by supervisors following internships
We will be developing methods to assess
progress toward mastery of each of these
outcomes by grade level
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5.
6. What Are the Elements of a Quality Plan
Be tied to identified learning outcomes and
curriculum
Be developmentally appropriate
Include assessment of student performance
Include an orientation for all parties
Provide opportunities for reflection
Link to the student’s next WBL experience
Link classroom learning and professional
expectations
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7. Supported by both academic and industry-
related course teachers
Prepare ALL students
Involve ALL students
Focus on college and career readiness not a
career or job
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8. Students’ Roles and Responsibilities
Actively participate in school and workplace
experiences
Develop meaningful learning objectives
Participate in reflection activities to process
workplace learning
Update portfolio capturing each work-based
learning experience
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9. District Roles and Responsibilities
Maintain and support policies and protocols to
make work-based learning a viable method for
helping students meet academic standards
Support teachers’ professional development to
ensure they maximize the opportunities at the
workplace
Leverage available resources to make sure that
work-based learning is supported within small
learning communities
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10. Parent/Guardian Roles
Ensure students complete paperwork and
curriculum requirements
Support successful completion of internship
Communicate with school personnel to monitor
progress
Participate in celebratory activities
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11. Teachers and Other Staff Roles
Provide support for students and employers
Monitor student performance in the classroom and
in the workplace and resolve any issues that arise
Prepare students for the workplace with multiple
WBL experiences
Prepare employers to work with high school
students in and out of the classroom
Make the connection between academic learning
and the workplace
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12. Advisory Board Responsibilities
All WBL experiences are linked to strong advisory
boards and community employer resources
How strong is your Advisory Board?
Review work-based learning activities and curriculum
and provide input
Assist in evaluating the effectiveness of the academy’s
work-based learning program and recommend
improvements
Connect individually with students around career plans
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13. Provide support in the classroom around topics
relevant to the workplace
Assist in fundraising to defer additional costs
associated with work-based learning activities
such as transportation
Provide internships and other work-based
learning experiences
Recruit businesses and other partners to
provide internships and other work-based
learning experiences
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14. Community Agencies/Organizations/
Higher Ed Roles and Responsibilities
What organizations in your community play a
“connecting and convening” role with both education
and employers/community leaders?
Serve as intermediary to connect teachers and other
school personnel and students with businesses
Assist in supervising student work place experiences
Subsidize work experience and internships for eligible
students
Provide referrals to work-based learning activities,
including work experience and internship opportunities
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15. Coordinate community-wide job shadow days
Develop articulation agreements for college
credits
Assist in preparing youth for the work place
(after school programs)
Arrange for college visits
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16. What Has To Happen To
Improve Student Learning?
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18. WBL Standard: Coordinated Program
All students complete a sequenced set of
work-based learning experiences as defined
by the Internship Gold Standards
A three- to four-year series of coordinated and sequenced work-
based learning experiences that include activities within career
awareness, career exploration and career preparation guarantee
that students are provided with learning opportunities that build in
sophistication, duration, and intensity and ultimately prepare them
for compensated internships. In our academy, a coordinated,
sequenced work-based learning program
19. WBL Standards: Internships
The academy develops and sustains a
program of compensated internship
experiences
All academy students complete a compensated
internship experience before they graduate. The
percentage of last year's(2011-2012) seniors
who completed a compensated internship
experience as a junior or senior was…
20. WBL Standard: Career Goals
Students, teachers and internship providers
collaborate to support the student’s career
goals.
Written individual student learning and
college/career plans allow for differentiated
skills levels, and alignment with student
interests, internship experiences and targeted
debriefing, reflection, and evaluation
22. We Want You and Your Students to be Successful
What does your Academy need?
o What can your school do to help?
o What can your district office do to help?
o What materials/tools are needed?
o What can your community do to help?
o What professional development would be helpful?
o Who do you call for answers?
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Editor's Notes
Who should be involved in the design and assessment of a complete work-based learning system? Join a discussion of how to develop a team to include students, advisory board members, career and academic core teachers and counselors. Participants will see a draft of NAF’s new Work-based Learning Guide.
Teachers explain to students, at the outset and repeatedly, the overall aim of their high school education.
Teachers explain to students, from the outset and continuously, how the program components and associated assessments, are meant to help them stay focused on, and measure progress toward the ultimate aim.