(302) 449-3837
WBL@appo.k12.de.us
(302) 449-3837
WBL@appo.k12.de.us
Career Experiences for Every Student
Work-Based Learning (WBL) is an educational strategy that provides students with real-life work experiences where they can apply academic and technical skills to develop their employability. WBL programs are targeted to bridge the gap between the learning and the doing. The Work-Based Learning continuum provides career awareness, career exploration, and career immersion opportunities across middle and high school grade bands.
Career Awareness
Grades 6-12
Students interact with industry partners from a variety of career fields. This interaction is designed to broaden student awareness to a spectrum of occupations, while sparking student thought about post-secondary opportunities and goals.
Experiences May Include:
Career Exploration
Grades 10-12
Students actively assess and build upon their emerging talents and competencies while navigating career interests. They begin to develop career-specific skills necessary for in-depth work-based learning, in their chosen pathway, and continue to evaluate post-secondary opportunities and goals.
Experiences May Include:
Career Immersion
Grade 12
Students attain college and career readiness through practical application of learning in pathway-chosen industry immersions. While demonstrating knowledge and career-specific skills, students develop effective, collaborative relationships within diverse teams of colleagues and clients. Through this continuum, students are also afforded the opportunity to earn industry-recognized certifications, where applicable.
Experiences May Include:
Work-Based Learning provides a combination of school and workplace learning with local employers.
Students either work off-site at an employer’s location, or employers come on-site to the classroom.
Students learn first-hand how to succeed in the workforce, learning what it takes to be successful while gaining both an education and valuable technical skills in their chosen pathway.
More than ever before, students need to know how their classroom experiences translate to the real world.
It is essential to teach the “why” in the classroom and how it transitions to the workplace.
Students not only learn industry-specific technical skills, but professional skills valued by employers, such as collaboration, communication, resilience, teamwork, and work-ethic.
Grades K-5
Coming Soon!
Grades 6-12
Grades 10-12
Grade 12
In the ASD, each high school has a dedicated Work-Based Learning Specialist.
Together, our team supports students and teachers across the District’s secondary schools.
Appoquinimink School District
118 S. Sixth Street
Odessa · DE · 19730
WBL@appo.k12.de.us
apposchooldistrict.com