What Work Experience Options Exist for High School Students?
Your child has many options for participating in high school work-based learning. Work-based learning may consist of career exploration and awareness, work experience, structured training, and/or mentoring at a worksite. Job Shadowing: In a job shadow experience your child observes a worker for part of a day or for several days, at the worker’s job site. The job shadowing experience is a short, unpaid exposure to the workplace in an occupational area of interest to your child Your child would witness firsthand the work environment, employability and occupational skills required of the job, the value of professional training and potential career options. Job shadowing is designed to increase career awareness, help model student behavior through examples, and reinforce the link between classroom learning and work requirements. Mentoring: Mentoring is a long-term relationship between your child and an adult with similar career interests. The adult mentor offers support, guidance, motivati
