A guide to placing learners on work experience

Denny, Ginnie. (Author). Reid, Susan. (Added Author). Workbase (Added Author).

Summary: From introduction: "This guide provides tertiary education organisations and their staff, working in the foundation learning sector, with a framework for work experience placements. This guide defines work experience and provides a rationale for organisations and their staff to use this framework, which incorporates a systemic approach. This guide includes a specific work experience polilcy and a series of nine procedures that are the critical components of a wshole-of-organisation approach to work experience placement. These procedures ensure consistency and coherence in placing learners on work experience. They contain suggestions about good practaice gleaned from overseas research but located in the New Zealand context."

Record details

ISBN: 1877352152
ISSN: 11765348
Physical Description: 68p. , 30 cm.
Edition: Second ed.
Publisher: Aukland, New Zealand: Workbase, 2005.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Work experience -- Procedure 1 - Staff roles, recruitments, induction and professional development -- Procedure 2 - Resources -- Procedure 3 - Employer engagement -- Procedure 4 - Curriculum -- Procedure 5 - Analysing literacy tasks and skills of a workplace role -- Procedure 6 - Learner preparation -- Procedure 7 - Learner placement and induction -- Procedure 8 - Monitoring and recording progress -- Procedure 9 - Evaluation -- Additional reading and other useful resources -- Appendix 1 - Literacy tasks and skills checklist -- Appendix 2 - Duties, tasks and skills program -- Appendix 3 - Literacy goal achievement plan.