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One of the most important programs we sponsor is an annual week long professional development for educators who meet in a variety of local businesses in the region for tours, and to hear a keynote speaker on some aspect of careers, business, and education, and then provide employees to spend the afternoon collaborating and preparing curricular and lesson planning materials for use in their various departments.
To facilitate this event, we are looking for businesses willing to provide tours of their facilities, a location where teachers can meet for lunch and to hear from a speaker, as well as work in the afternoons, as well as the availability of a few employees to work with teachers on planning, and lastly financial assistance in bringing this all together.
For more information on this professional development, click here.
For more details on how you can help, please complete the contact form below.
Internships and externships are excellent ways for not only students to learn work skills through doing, and hands on learning, but is also an excellent means to develop a future employee who is ready for your work force at graduation, and can seamlessly step into their role.
Our program endeavors to be a facilitator of these relationships in order to connect the classroom with real life.
If you are interested in providing these opportunities, or how to go about setting up opportunities like this, please click here.
Anybody who is a parent knows that after a while, what you say to your children becones background noise, easily ignored, and in one ear and out the other. The same is true in the classroom. Sometimes you just need another voice saying the same thing.
This is where having a pool of classroom guests, who can help connect learning to the outside world, can help.
The member teachers of our program will list areas they are interested in having a guest speaker who can speak on it come in, and employers and business people can sign up to meet the needs, share their real world connections to the topic, and promote their own enterprises at the same time. If you would like to be a part of this Speaker's Bureau, please click here.
Many school districts have programs or class requirements for their students to job shadow someone in their possible career field for a day. In many of these cases there are obstacles for the student, the educator, and the professional being shadowed.
The obstacle for the student is finding someone qualified in their chosen field to shadow, when you have no network to refer to. Usually students are attempting to make these connections on their own, so they are limited to friends of friends and family, or random chance.
The obstacle for the educator is how to assess the value of their experience, not having knowledge of every possible career path. As a reslut, often times, this just becomes some sort of generic reflection paper.
Finally, the obstacle for the professional is how to involve the student in a meaningful experience, and draw them in to it.
One of the goals of this program is to provide the educator with a pool of professionals who are on the same page, and provide the professionals with a program to follow, both of which will provide a worthwhile and valuable experience to young people figuring out their futures.
If you would like to be a part of this, please click here.
"No man is an island unto himself" and an undertaking like our program requires a great many hands and voices. We are hoping you may join us to make Prepare & Connect a valuable organization for students, educators, businesses, and the community as a whole.
If you can help in any of the ways mentioned above, we wouldloveto have you share your hands and voices with us to help us achieve our goals.
The expectaions of your joining us are minimal, you can contribute as little, or as much as you can afford with your time, expertise, and financial contributions. We can use boeth educators and business people to serve on an advisory board, businesses willing to offer internships and externships, places of employment and professionals willing to offer job shadowing opportunities, and career professionals willing to join a pool of classroom speakers.
We also need help in putting on our annual teacher professional development. We would be in need of the following:
First off, we are looking for businesses to provide tours of their facilities and discuss the following with our attendees:
Second, we are looking for businesses, preferably the same providing the tours, to provide
Third, we are looking for
And, lastly, we are looking for funding assistance to provide
Teachers are not normally the types of people to ask for handouts, hence why so many finance their own classrooms. We prefer to look at what we are asking for as an investment that will pay dividends to you in the form of an eager, qualified, pool of applicants and employees that are invested in your success as an integral part of their own communities.
If you or your organization can help with any of this, please click here.
If you can see the benefits of this program to your business, school, and our community, we strongly encourage you to contact us!
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