Tools for Teacher Shadowing and Externship

The JFF Connected Learning Communities Toolkit for Reinventing High School offers a number of tools that guide teachers in workplace observations, with an eye to crafting learning-rich opportunities for their students. These include “Diagnosing Workplace Opportunities,” page 77-78, “Learning Audit of a Worksite,” page 81-83, “Key Questions to Ask at a Worksite Visit,” pages 85-85, “Bringing the Learning Back to School,” page 86, and "Design Studios", pages 119-137.

Faculty Work-Based Learning (California Community Colleges’ Chancellor’s Office, Statewide Advisory Committee for Work-Based Learning and Employment Services).

The New Urban High School: A Practitioner's Guide (The Big Picture Company) Excerpts from The New Urban High School: A Practitioner's Guide scanned and posted with permission from The Big Picture Company. Document includes "Activities for Educators" (pages 133-158); See Mall Walk.

Teacher Externship Manual developed for the Alameda Unified School District by Hatchuel Tabernik and Associates. This manual includes a guide for both Teachers and Employers that incorporates materials shared by Devi Jameson of the West Contra Costa Unified School District STC Office, as well as excerpts from the JFF Connected Learning Communities (CLC)Toolkit. The Manual includes introductory materials, application forms, the CLC materials on “Questions to ask at the Worksite”, “Diagnosing Workplace Opportunities” and conducting a “Learning Audit of the Worksite”, information on SCANS and a checksheet of organizational processes that an educator should be exposed to in the workplace. It also includes information on Project-Based Learning, developed by Adria Steinberg of JFF, to assist teachers in creating projects based on their learning after the shadowing/externship experience.

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