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MEd 6060
Walker

Work Study & Apprenticeships (Strategy 19)

"... measurements and angles in the textbook meant nothing to him until he began to
use these concepts in his real-life profession of construction." (Tate, 2010)

Work Study & Apprenticeship

• Learn from observations
• See something done, try it with guidance, & get immediate feedback -
• Obvious relevance :\

Benefits
• Help get students ready for the workplace.
• See how things apply to real-life & that you might actually use what you are
learning gains value and importance, becomes relevant.

Cognitive Apprenticeship
• Make classroom learning more similar to apprenticeship type learning (make
it more visible) • - • ^ - -:v,i., , .

• Model the skill, provide scaffolding, be explicit with how to perform the
steps, then support less and less as the students' skills improve

Goals for the Classroom

• Show students how classroom learning is relevant to their real world
• Give students the chance to use their new knowledge in real-life situations &
to solve real life problems
• Help close gap between skills needed to succeed in school life versus work
life.
• Interest and motivation increases when students see that a subject relates to
other subjects or to the real world.
• Authentic, real-world tasks develop strong neural networks.
• Decrease anxiety & fears around a subject by using concrete examples to help
grasp abstract concepts
• Get students to actively participate in their learning
Websites
NASA Careers. 15 Sept. 09. Web. 20 February 2011.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/Careers_index.html

Service Projects. UEN(Utah Education Network]. Web. 20 February 2011.

http://www.uen.0rg/kl2student/servicejdeas.shtml#ideas

The Eddie Files. FASE Productions. 2010. Web. 19 Feb 2011.

http://fasenet.org/store/kay_toliver/eddiefiles.html

References •
Berryman, Sue E. "Designing Effective Learning Environments: Cognitive
Apprenticeship Models." /jB'fBne/s 1 [September 1991]. 1-4. ERIC Online
Database.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERI CWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&
_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED337689&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0
=no&accno=ED337689

Collins, Allan, John Seely Brown, and Ann Holum. "Cognitive Apprenticeship:
Making Thinking Visible." American Educator. 15.3 [Winter 1991]: 6-11,38-
46. Print.

Tate, Marcia L. Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites [Second Edition). Thousand Oaks,
California: Corwin. 2010. Print.