WORK-BASED LEARNING
Bridging the Gap from Education to Work

Work-Based Learning provides teaching strategies that blend classroom instruction and structured laboratory experiences at the worksite to prepare post-secondary students for current and future careers in a highly technical world.

Program Eligibility

• Currently enrolled in a Career-Technical program
• Teacher recommendation
• Employment must parallel course curriculum

Program Student Advantage

• 270 clock hours = 3 hours of college credit
• 6 hours of WBL may go toward the meeting of program degree requirements
• Student gains work experience while completing formal education
• Student has access to program instructor for assistance in understanding a work task

Program Instructor/Industry Advantage

• Instructors receive industry input as to skills required on sork-site
• Industry has access to the assistance of program instructor helping student understand a specific skill for a worksite task
• Instructors keep current on the demands of industry
• Industry has the opportunity to evaluate a potential full-time employee

Program Requirements

• Industry representative and coordinator complete WBL agreement spelling out student's work-site duties
• Student documents clock hours
• Industry representative, instructor and WBL coordinator evaluate student's work performance

Program Oversight

• Workforce Council acts as the advisory committee for Work-Based Learning
• Program is evaluated by State Department of Education

Contact our Work-Based Learning Coordinator:

Beth Dickerson
Career Center, Tech I
Northwest Mississippi Community College, Senatobia Campus
Phone: (662) 562-3432
Fax: (662) 560-1107
Email: bdickerson@northwestms.edu

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