Teachers will get opportunity to shadow workers
JACKSON TWP — For many students and parents, a goal of education is to prepare teenagers and young adults for the workforce.
But, Jeff Roberts said, that can be difficult when teachers went right from high school to college, then to teaching.
“While we say we want to prepare kids for the 21st century workplace, it’s hard to know what that is if you haven’t experienced it yourself,” said Roberts, Seneca Valley’s supervisor of gifted education and student services.
With the help of a Department of Labor and Industry grant, however, Seneca Valley teachers will bring a new perspective on industry to the classroom.
The Teacher in the Workplace grant will fund job shadowing and industry education opportunities for teachers to learn about how workers in varied occupations go about their day-to-day jobs.
Occupations about which the teachers will learn include registered nurses, medical secretaries, paralegals and many types of trades such as brick masons and pipe fitters.
This is an excerpt from a larger article that will appear in Wednesday’s Butler Eagle. Subscribe online or in print to find out more about the grant and why the jobs listed to shadow were chosen.
