Developing and Redesigning Your Work-Based Learning Program
WBL License | This program is completed
This course is ideal for those new to work-based learning or those who want to refine their existing program and will give participants the opportunity to design the format and systems of a WBL program that works for their particular role and school.
We will cover creating a new program or refining an existing program that aligns with your school’s goals and available resources, outreach to new community partners and systems to help build and maintain those relationships, and other tools and strategies that will help you to effectively manage all aspects of your program. We will explore various WBL models and best practices around the state. Students will have plenty of individual time and support to design and refine the systems and tools that work for them and can be applied within their school and community.
This course is fully online, with some synchronous virtual meetings. Click View Schedule above for class dates and times.
- Upon successful completion of the course, students will earn 3 graduate credits from Castleton University.
Pam Hemingway
Pam Hemingway, M.Ed., has been an educator for 26 years. In her current role as Career Development Coordinator at Essex High School in Essex Junction, Vermont, she is responsible for developing/revising the internship curriculum, assisting internship classroom teachers, finding internship locations, creating business connections, organizing school wide career activities. Prior to this role, she taught Business Education at Essex High School and helped develop a successful Community Internship course for the high school curriculum. Pam is also a co-facilitator with the Vermont Internship Professionals Network, an organization that brings together Vermont internship coordinators to share best practices and resources. She earned an undergraduate degree in Secondary Education and Business Administration from Trinity College of Vermont and a Master’s Degree in Education from Trinity College of Vermont. Pam’s parents were both educators, so she learned from a young age how important education is and that all students, no matter their background, should have the same opportunities. Along with being an educator, Pam owns her own business as a Mary Kay Cosmetics Consultant. She lives in Essex Junction with her husband and two teenage boys.