Experiential Learning
Skills Activites
August 27, 2020
Skills activities, including competitions, skill fairs, or skill workshops, offer another engaging way for students to learn, reflect, and collaborate in a practical and authentic manner.
Type of Experiential Learning: Work-Integrated Learning/Education
What does it look like?
Skills Activities, including competitions, skill fairs, or skill workshops, offer another engaging way for students to learn, reflect, and collaborate in a practical and authentic manner.
Benefits
Students and Families
- Provides opportunity for exploration for students interested in experience, skills, and requirements related to an interest, passion, or opportunity
Employers and Community
- Can promote youth engagement and heighten the profile of community, work, or an interest that serves as the focus for the activity
- Develops interest and further exploration related to a workplace or community opportunity
Educators
- Provides meaningful, curriculum-related experience for students
- Can promote student engagement/motivation/collaboration
Considerations
Students and Families
- Promotes exploration of the opportunities and relevance of studies to areas of interest
- May be particularly engaging for those who appreciate more in-depth opportunity to learn, challenge themselves, and explore
Employers and Community
- May require liaison with educators to encourage a safe, meaningful, and engaging experience for all participants
Educators
- Allows for close work with other partners, particularly students, to make curricular connections within skill activities
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