Work-Based Learning: Internships
Work-based learning provides students with engaging activities to learn by doing. Work-based learning experiences offer students the opportunity to build career awareness, explore careers, and develop critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, and soft skills necessary for success in entry-level employment. Work-based learning provides students the chance to try various careers on a day-to-day basis. This exposure can help them identify what career choices they want – or do not want – to pursue.
Internships extend a career field or pathway beyond the classroom to outside the school, or that help a jobseeker reach their career goal through building experience. Internships generally involve participants working in professional settings under the supervision and monitoring of practicing professionals. Internships can be paid or unpaid, and they may or may not involve academic credit. Strong internship programs will provide substantial, meaningful work assignments, training, necessary workspace as well as resources, structured evaluation and reflection.
Internships extend a career field or pathway beyond the classroom to outside the school, or that help a jobseeker reach their career goal through building experience. Internships generally involve participants working in professional settings under the supervision and monitoring of practicing professionals. Internships can be paid or unpaid, and they may or may not involve academic credit. Strong internship programs will provide substantial, meaningful work assignments, training, necessary workspace as well as resources, structured evaluation and reflection.