Experiential Learning
Take Your Kid to Work
August 27, 2020
Take Your Kid to Work allows students to experience life within a workplace.
Take Your Kid to Work
What does it look like?
Take Your Kid to Work allows students to experience life within a workplace. This provides students with the opportunity to explore career options, interests, and the world of work, better preparing them to make informed educational decisions about their future.
It can include visiting a workplace on Take Our Kids to Work Day, or experiencing several workplace opportunities for partial days or flexible times throughout a year, in a face-to-face manner or virtually.
Benefits
Students and Families
Provides opportunity for exploration for students interested in experience, skills, and requirements related to workplace
Employers and Community
Promotes youth engagement and profile of community placement or employer as progressive and supportive
Develops interest and possible candidates for employment related to your workplace or community opportunity
Educators
Provides meaningful, curriculum-related experience for students
May link directly to curricular learning outcomes, and can assist in student engagement/motivation and liaison with family
Considerations
Students and Families
Promotes exploration of the world of work and relevance of studies to career
May be particularly engaging for those with an interest in work-related skills and career opportunities
Employers and Community
This may be a helpful support in promoting employee or community involvement recruitment
Educators
Allows for close work with parents and students to make curricular connections to workplace experiences