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Lesson 1. Work-Based Learning

Work-based learning involves learning that occurs in the workplace rather than on campus. It prepares trainees for employment through vocational programs and work-related learning, though not all curriculum needs to be completed at work. The emphasis is on identifying learning from work activities. Types of work-based learning include job shadowing, internships, dual training systems, and school-based enterprises. The objectives are to enhance learning through planned career experiences, help the transition from school to work, teach the work environment, increase awareness of competencies, provide career placement opportunities, and project a positive image through industry involvement.

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Lesson 1. Work-Based Learning

Work-based learning involves learning that occurs in the workplace rather than on campus. It prepares trainees for employment through vocational programs and work-related learning, though not all curriculum needs to be completed at work. The emphasis is on identifying learning from work activities. Types of work-based learning include job shadowing, internships, dual training systems, and school-based enterprises. The objectives are to enhance learning through planned career experiences, help the transition from school to work, teach the work environment, increase awareness of competencies, provide career placement opportunities, and project a positive image through industry involvement.

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Information Sheet

WORK-BASED LEARNING

Work-Based Learning (WBL) is the learning (not teaching) that occurs in the workplace
(rather than on campus). It is work-related learning in the form of vocational program
designed to prepare trainees for employment, and does not necessarily require significant
areas of the curriculum to be completed in the work place itself. The emphasis is on
identifying and demonstrating learning that has occurred through work-based activity.

Types of Work-Based Learning

• Job Shadowing

It is a school-supervised career exploration activity wherein trainees visit


worksites and “shadow” employees as they perform their jobs. Job shadows
emphasize observing the workplace, not participating as a productive worker. The
job shadow provides a context for understanding the relationship and interaction
between the competencies taught in the training institution and the workplace.

• Internship

It helps trainees move from school to the workplace by offering “hands-on”


learning, in real work settings, over a relatively long period of time.

• Dual Training System

It is an instructional mode of delivery for technology-based education and


training in which learning takes place alternately in two venues – the school
or training center and the company.

• School-Based Enterprise

It is typically involved trainees in the management of a business that


produces or sells goods and services as part of a school program. SBE
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activities help trainees increase their skills in problem solving, business
operations, time management, and working in teams

Objectives of Work-Based Training

1. To expand and enhance the trainees’ learning through planned career experiences
in an actual work setting. Career experience is a planned and progressive
educational program by combining academic studies with on-the-job experience.
It helps the trainees gain the experience needed to obtain the job of their choice.
2. To help the trainees make the transition from school to work and career.
3. To teach the environment of work.
4. To increase the trainees’ awareness and appreciation of the relevance of basic,
common and core competencies as they apply to their qualification/occupational
choice.
5. To provide the trainees with opportunities for potential career placement in their
occupational choice. Career means the general course or progression on one’s
working life or one’s professional achievement. Placement means the finding of
suitable accommodation or employment for applicants.
6. To project a positive image for trainees through involvement in business and
industry.

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