Career Gateway Prep Program

‘Work Experience Builders’ for minority students represents interconnected Opportunities, Options, & Exposure.

– For minority students, this means the ability to better understand their future career field possibilities via collborative and stand alone work taskings.

– For businesses/service buyers, this represents the ability to engage in flexible and remote work to gain valuable insights on how personnel of varying generations engage with each other.

– For mentors, this means the capability to positively affect change in the way work is successfully completed from career field to career field.PedagoWorks (w/CertificationPoint collaboration) is about having opportunities where they don’t traditionally exist for everyone and also having options and exposure to various pathways for optimal career progression.

What Are Work Experience Builders? Better Yet…What Do Work Experience Builders Consist Of?

Internships
– a period of work experience offered by an organization for a limited period of time. Once confined to medical graduates, internship is used practice for a wide range of placements in businesses, non-profit organizations and government agencies. They are typically undertaken by students and graduates looking to gain relevant skills and experience in a particular field.

Apprenticeships
– a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). Apprenticeships can also enable practitioners to gain a license to practice in a regulated occupation. Most of their training is done while working for an employer who helps the apprentices learn their trade or profession, in exchange for their continued labor for an agreed period after they have achieved measurable competencies.

Freelance Work Opportunities
– (also called gigs) refers to an employment situation where the working arrangement is limited to a certain period of time based on the needs of the employing organization.

On-The-Job-Training
– helps develop the career of the individual and the prosperous growth of the organization. On the job training is a form of training provided at the workplace. During the training, employees are familiarized with the working environment they will become part of. Employees also get a hands-on experience using machinery, equipment, tools, materials, etc.

Courses
– a unit of teaching that typically lasts one academic term, is led by one or more instructors (teachers or professors), and has a fixed roster of students. A course usually covers an individual subject. Courses generally have a fixed program of sessions every week during the term, called lessons or classes. Students may receive a grade and academic credit after completion of the course.

Mentorship
– involve having senior employees mentor more junior employees, but mentors do not necessarily have to be more senior than the people they mentor. What matters is that mentors have experience that others can learn from.

Project-Based Learning
– a student-centered pedagogy that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems. Students learn about a subject by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to a complex question, challenge, or problem.

Certifications
– part of testing, inspection and certification and the provision by an independent body of written assurance (a certificate) that the product, service or system in question meets specific requirements. It is the formal attestation or confirmation of certain characteristics of an object, person, or organization.

Interviewing
– a structured conversation where one participant asks questions, and the other provides answers. In common parlance, the word “interview” refers to a one-on-one conversation between an interviewer and an interviewee.

Work Research
– mostly done by students who are in their final year of school. With this kind of internship, a student does research for a particular company. The company can have something that they feel they need to improve, or the student can choose a topic in the company themselves. The results of the research study will be put in a report and often will have to be presented.

Fellowships
– merit-based competitive internal or external awards to support a full-time course of study of qualified graduate students. Fellows receive financial support to focus on their graduate research and training without the requirement of service to the university (teaching or research).

Problem-Based Learning
– a student-centered pedagogy in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem found in trigger material. The PBL process does not focus on problem solving with a defined solution, but it allows for the development of other desirable skills and attributes.

Connected learning
– type of learning where a young person pursues a personal interest with friends and adults, and their learning is linked to academic achievements, career success, or civic engagement.

Active learning
– “a method of learning in which students are actively or experientially involved in the learning process and where there are different levels of active learning, depending on student involvement.

Experiential learning
– process of learning through experience, and is more narrowly defined as “learning through reflection on doing”. Hands-on learning can be a form of experiential learning, but does not necessarily involve students reflecting on their product.

Visual learning
– learning style in the Fleming VAK/VARK model in which information is presented to a learner in a visual format. Visual learners can utilize graphs, charts, maps, diagrams, and other forms of visual stimulation to effectively interpret information.

Training Simulations
– virtual medium through which various types of skills can be acquired. Training simulations can be used in a variety of genres; however they are most commonly used in corporate situations to improve business awareness and management skills.

Team-Based Learning
– collaborative learning and teaching strategy that enables people to follow a structured process to enhance student engagement and the quality of student or trainee learning.

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