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Work-Based Learning
Work-Based Learning was initiated in Georgia to insure a well educated and highly skilled workforce. It is designed to bring together the components necessary for a successful career - Education and Experience.
What does it provide?
- Provides paid and unpaid work experience
- Promotes partnership between education and industry
- Integrates academic and technical instruction
- Provides post-secondary options
Work Based Learning Key Components:
- Classroom-based learning
- Workplace experience
- Connecting activities
Using these components, students begin to prepare for a career while still in high school.
How does Work-Based Learning Work?
Work-Based Learning provides an opportunity for juniors and seniors to start preparing for a career while still in high school. Individual programs of study in the freshman and sophomore years prepare students for a successful apprenticeship.
How will Work-Based Learning benefit students?
Work-Based Learning offers students school-based and work-based
learning opportunities that are related to the student's career interest area.
Through Work-Based Learning, students are able to:
- Earn wages while learning from skilled professionals
- Increase career options and future employability
- Strengthen academic skills
- Earn post-secondary credit while in high school
- Experience potential careers in the workplace