What is considered a quality workplace experience for students?
Quality work-based learning experiences are the kind of thing we have going on at Autodesk. It has to do with having an effective program manager who works with the managers and the interns to ensure the students aren’t just doing things like photocopying but are having challenging learning experiences. It’s also important for students to have quality school-based experiences. And that depends on whether the school actually reorganizes itself to create focused learning communities. These may take the form of academies in which you might have 30-100 kids all going through the same experience so they have a lot of contextual learning about the kind of skills and knowledge they need for a career they may be considering. If both the schools and the workplaces are working together then those learning experiences are very positive for the kids because there is a connection to workplace learning. Q: Are there any elements that are critical to the success of school-to-work programs? A: One of
