The Value of Work Experience Work experience is it of value or is it a waste of time? This is a question that both parents and teachers have been asking for a long time. I am going to research this through my own work experience for one week at Stainsby Grange Equestrian Centre in my last year at school. Works experience takes place away from the school and offers first hand experience of working life for pupils. Two views of works experience are it offers an opportunity for pupils to experience working life and to learn from this experience or it is an opportunity to enjoy time away from school with little benefit to the pupil. Work experience programs has been running many years and is a chance for pupils in the last two years of school to leave for a week of two to try a taste of working life. So it is basically a chance for pupils to try one week or more at the working life like ordinary working adults. This provides a means to help pupils to choose a future career more wisely they have some experience and knowledge of one type of job. It also shows us what kind of work we would have to do in certain areas of business. The counter view is it just for school children in their last years at school to nick off from school, to sit on their bottoms and do nothing away from school and to laze about. Many employers love to take on work experience kids who are willing to work and are ready to learn, as it is a learning experience after all. As it shows us children what work we would be expected to if we took a job there also to see what opportunities are out there for pupils. And the employers learn how to work with teenagers and what qualities they look for in over 16 part time help and what to expect in terms of attitude and standard of work. When I asked for their opinions to the question of "Is work experience
A student at Ste. Genevieve High School even expressed how she needs the summer break to unwind and not have to care about studying for a class when school would return to session. Another reason students may oppose this change is due to the fact High School students may hold summer jobs to earn some spending money. In certain instances, the year-round calendar may prevent students from holding these jobs or holding them for extended periods of time. One more reason students may disapprove of year-round education is because of extracurricular activities, and how they will be changed or shifted. New teachers can be affected in many ways. Unlike teachers who work in traditional school districts, they do not have the long summer to prepare and acquaint themselves for the forthcoming school year. Along with preparing lessons and assignments, teachers would not be able to take their own vacations and prepare for school
Back in the olden days, schools were originally put on a schedule in which students would spend the majority of the year in school, and 2-3 months off for summer break. The purpose of this was so that children could be home for the summer to help their parents run family farms. Today, due to progressive industrialization of farming, modernized farming equipment, and decrease in family farms, the need for children to be home during the summer to help run family farms is minute if not obsolete; because of this many schools across the United States have transitioned to year-round schooling (“Summer”). Contrary to belief, year round schooling does not usually mean more school days. Currently most year-round schools adhere to the 180 day school year. Instead of the traditional lengthy summer vacation, year-round schools distribute the 180 days throughout the entire year while allowing for shorter breaks. Common scheduling for year-round schools includes cycles of 2-3 months in school followed by 2-3 week breaks (“Research Spotlight...
This is because it gives students learning experience through broadening their minds by accessing relevant information that is important to their career path. The basic idea of “why do I take this course” is also important in designing career maps that students undertake. The career map is a visual chart that provides a basic understanding of each single course in the program. It also helps in developing their skills in different areas of the program. These areas generally include: organization relations, critical thinking, communication, and
Shortly, we became more industrialized and had more advanced technology which made the summer vacation that was so crucial to the survival of the family now purposeless. With these long summer breaks, it can affect a child’s learning in so many ways. According to the benefits of year-round education article,”As of the 2006-2007 school year, nearly 2,800 U.S. schools were classified as year round.” One essential problem with long summer breaks is lack of retention of learned material and can lead to the student not being able to make progress with their learning in the next school year. In year-round schools, kids don’t waste time on review as opposed to traditional schools who take about three weeks reviewing the information they learned in the
School is usually a huge part of every child’s daily agenda. Teenagers in high school basically dedicate their entire day to school and homework. Students in grade 8 are similarly going through the same process as high school students. As students work 2 months after the Winter Break, some of them tend to start reducing their quality of work. When we’re tired of doing school work for two straight months, why should we only receive a short March break?
do we study? We study so we can get a good job. Why do we work? So we
Back in the early ages, the idea of year-round school would be thought as completely insane, because the farming families depended on their children to be home during harvest time. Now in modern times, the term year-round school is becoming more and more common in the United States of America. Slowly the schools are changing the way they teach, from giving the students a long three month break to a shorter one month break during the summer. The change of America’s high schools to the year-round schedule benefits both the schools and the students because they still get breaks throughout the school year, the children are less likely to forget information, the children would have more time with the teachers to learn, and the parents would not have to pay for childcare during the long summer break.
This would be carried out by making a minimum of how many days a public school can have, and limit how long the breaks are in between. As many sources support this idea of year-round school, the best plan is called the 45-15. Students would go to school for 45 days and have 15 days off. This would only be a guideline as the state government would further regulate
The Value of Work Experience A summer or part-time job pays more than money. Even though the money earned is important, the work experience gained has a greater long-term value when one applies for a full-time job after graduation from school. Job application documents (the application blank and the personal data sheet) ask you to list jobs you have held and to list as references the names of individuals who supervised your work. Gieseking and Plawin, 1994, 22.
Young children flourish when allowed to enter the world of real work that surrounds them - from picking up toys or feeding the cat to grating carrots for salad. In the company of family or other adults, children eagerly engage in work. They want to 'help' with the pursuits of adults, and this work can be a crucial part of their early learning.
Developing your ability to work with adults as part of a team is a key
There are several plans that schools offer in order to distribute the vacation throughout the year in many smaller breaks then in one three month block. Examples of these plans would be 45-15,60-20, and 60-15. The 45-15 plan is the most widely used plan, it is the simplest plan to use at any level of education, and also can be used for a multi track school. With the 40-15 plan student's go to school for 45 days and then have a 15-day break. Next the 60-20 plan follows the same pattern as the 45-15, students go to school for 60 days and then have a break for 20. Most teachers like this plan because it allows them a little more time on a particular subject.
This Quarter has been a very interesting one. At the beginning of the quarter I was a recently graduated nurse who had just passed the NCLEX and began my first job as a nurse at a hospital who hadn’t thought too deeply about what I would be doing beyond that. Today I am a much better nurse able to perform my job better, not just from job experience, but from what I am learning in this class as well. I have learned a great deal from this course I still have more to learn from it. I still strive to learn how to be more professional and be able to have a greater impact on my patients having a positive outcome. I feel like I can achieve this by reading, assignments, and collaborating with my classmates taking lessons from their views and experience.
One extra day of school cuts into precious relaxation time of students and teachers alike.
My last seven and a half months have consisted carrying out the work placement element of my college curriculum in Fexco offices in Killorglin. I was placed into the Finance department to coincide with my degree major of accounting and finance where I undertook a various amount of relevant tasks and projects. I thoroughly enjoyed my time working in Fexco and I gained a vast understanding of how the company is run and organized. I felt as though every day was a learning experience and a chance to develop a further understanding of what the working world consists of. I was allowed to experience different roles within the finance department in an attempt for me to discover which one I enjoyed to most. Prior to my work experience I was very unsure