PWCS and the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) recognize eleven Work-Based Learning (WBL) experiences:

Job shadowing, service learning, mentorship, externship, school-based enterprise, internship, entrepreneurship, clinical experience, cooperative education, youth registered apprenticeship, and registered apprenticeship.

All CTE programs include the following elements:

• Classroom instruction – Students build a foundation of academic and technical competencies, attitudes, and develop a work ethic that supports career success and lifelong learning
• Career and technical student organizations (CTSOs) – Professional organizations that provide experiences that reinforce and strengthen classroom learning. CTSOs prepare students for individual responsibility, teamwork, and leadership in their chosen career pathways
• Work-Based Learning (WBL) experiences – Opportunities for students to apply and refine knowledge, attitudes, and skills through professionally coordinated and supervised work experience directly related to career goals

• Builds on classroom and CTSO experience, easing the classroom to workplace transition
• Supervised, authentic experiences shape and enhance knowledge, skill, and attitudes
• Students develop careers beyond their secondary and postsecondary education
• Students who participate in WBL experiences are often able to continue to work for their placement companies after high school graduation or even after college graduation
• Employers increasingly seek new hires with Work-Based Learning (WBL) experience

PWCS CTE wants to partner with your business! PWCS CTE is looking to partner with organizations that have work-based learning or career opportunities for current high school students or recent PWCS graduates.

If you are interested in pursuing a partnership with PWCS CTE, please complete the partnership questionnaire found in the Community and Business Engagement from the left menu.

Questions? Please contact [email protected].