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.

1. Designing and Assessing
Your Work-Based
Learning System
Deanna Hanson, Director of WBL,
NAF

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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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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17. Supervisor Assessment of
College and Career Readiness
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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

21. www.naf.org
Search:
Guide to Work-
Based Learning
Or
http://naf.org/se
arch/node/Guide
%20to%20Work
%20Based%20Le
arning
All tools are
linked within the
Guide

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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