Work-Based Learning Community Service

1. Work-Based LearningCommunity Service Health Careers Academy

2. Importance • Academic experience only takes you so far; there is only so much you can learn from a book or from your teacher • It is up to you to turn the experience into a positive example of success • Work-based learning can lead to jobs, college, and more opportunities for you

3. Importance (continued) • Companies value work-based learning and some require it before hiring • 70% of employers require new hires to have on-the- job training • Students will have the opportunity to network and find mentors • You will learn skills that you can apply later

4. Importance (continued) • Work-based learning dramatically increases the chances of students being hired • It’s a great way to “test it out” for both the student and the employer • This is your chance to make a great impression

5. “The great end of an education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind. To train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others”… Tryon Edwards

6. We must open the doors of opportunity, but we must also equip our students to walk through the doors…... LBJ

7. The end, my friend