What is Work-Based Learning (WBL) and Who does it Benefit?
Check out all the types of WBL on Colorado's Work-Based Learning Continuum
Check out Colorado's Work-Based Learning Continuum
Work-based learning (WBL) is an educational approach that connects classroom learning to real-world work experiences, allowing students to gain practical, hands-on skills and explore career paths. It incorporates activities like internships, apprenticeships, job shadowing, and informational interviews to develop academic, technical, and essential employability skills for future career success.
Work-based learning (WBL) is important because it bridges the gap between education and the workforce by providing hands-on experience that develops crucial skills, helps students explore career paths and build professional networks, and allows businesses to develop talent and create a skilled workforce pipeline. It is beneficial for students by boosting confidence, improving academic outcomes, and increasing the likelihood of career success, while simultaneously addressing employers' needs for skilled workers and promoting economic growth.
YVPS3 work with students, schools, industry and work-force development partners in northwest Colorado to build a stronger and more resilient community by creating a more robust workforce pipeline that is responsive to changing workforce needs, and allows students young people from this region to explore career pathways, find one that excites them and pursue the necessary skills, credentials, and connections in the region - or elsewhere - so they can continue to call the Yampa Valley home and pursue their desired career.
