This opportunity helps students explore a range of career opportunities and can assist students in the selection of a career focus or major. This experience provides relevant learning outside the classroom and ranges in length as appropriate. Job shadowing identifies job-related characteristics that are required for the education of youth. Activities can include observing a career, exploring a work environment, observing workplace skills, and validating student expectations for a particular career. Apprenticeship Students who qualify for Dual Enrollment with Chesapeake College can take advantage of the early stages of the Manufactoring Apprenticeship Programs offered at and through the college campus.
Students earn a salary while learning an occupation with a future.
Service Learning Service Learning has been instrumental in combining community service with structured school-based opportunities for reflection about that service, emphasizing the connections between service experiences and learning. Through this type of experiential learning, students develop interpersonal skills and other employability skills. Students have an opportunity to visit work sites, observes and learn skills and practice those skills for the benefit of students as well as the community. Through perticipation in school organizations, students have an opportunity to partner with the community in accomplishing common goals. School-sponsored enterprises typically involve students in the management of a project that may involve the sale of good or services for use by others.