Cultivating Careers through Work Based Learning

WBL is an experience in which students meet real world challenges in an actual work place setting within their chosen career path, usually for high school credit, and can be a paid or volunteer experience. By creating a pool of qualified candidates that have a verified list of skills, we are keeping...

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Published in:The Agricultural Education Magazine 2016-11, Vol.89 (3), p.13
Main Author: Schneider, Greg
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural education
Agriculture Teachers
Aversion learning
Career Development
Employees
Employment
Internships
Learning
Professional development
Secondary Education
Serial learning
Students
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Summary:WBL is an experience in which students meet real world challenges in an actual work place setting within their chosen career path, usually for high school credit, and can be a paid or volunteer experience. By creating a pool of qualified candidates that have a verified list of skills, we are keeping our agricultural industries strong and growing. Within our immediate community, students can secure employment as service technicians, agriculture salespeople, agronomists, equipment operators, and animal health and nutrition specialists, among others. [...]I ran out of time, before I ran out of opportunities. [...]public speaking and basic computer skills were identified by employers as universal needs, more advanced computer programming classes are helpful for jobs involving technology, and biology and chemistry courses are helpful in many jobs that involve crop and/or animal science. Employers can recruit qualified graduates from other outside programs that will fill the employment needs, but if the employees are from another community, they will generally leave to return to their home community. [...]during the summer after the junior year of high school, students participate local agriculture industries and farming operations that agreed to host students for two-week intervals for a total of four placements over an 8-week period. A mentor is assigned to the student by the host site, and as the agriculture teacher, I conduct regularly scheduled job site supervision visits.
ISSN:0732-4677