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🏢 The Experience
🏢 The Experience
Bridge the Gap Between Classroom and Career
Bridge the Gap Between Classroom and Career
Work-Based Learning (WBL) is a senior-level capstone program designed to move students from theoretical learning into professional application. It provides a bridge to future readiness through direct engagement with real-world industries.
🤝 Professional Internships: Students secure and manage internships with local business partners, marketing firms, and retail organizations to gain firsthand experience in their career field.
📈 Real-World Integration: Apply skills developed in prior core classes—such as Accounting, Advanced Computer Apps, and Multimedia Marketing—directly into daily operational environments.
🎓 Future Readiness: This program is the final step toward professional success, helping students build resumes, professional portfolios, and local business networks before graduation.
For Students
For Students
The Work-Based Learning Program offers students the opportunity to gain hands-on workplace skills and to apply their academic knowledge in a real-world setting. The program has been designed to promote students’ success in both postsecondary education and trade-related careers—basically, life beyond high school.
During the first week of school, you will meet in Mrs. Weber's classroom for an hour until you have completed the following and the required assignments in Google Classroom:
Syllabus Brochure—Read it
August 24 to September 4—You will report to my classroom at 11:22 am.
Tuesday, September 8, you may leave school at 11:22 am to report to work.
Download the Homebase app to your phone. You will use the app to clock in and out of work daily.
Join our Google Classroom—All the assignments are published, so you can get a head start if you want.
You will be assigned a monthly journal entry each month starting in September. Check Google Classroom at the end of each month.
I will visit you at your worksite one time in September and November.
Training Agreement—Fill it out and get it signed by all parties. Be sure everyone reads what they are signing off on. Return it to me when everyone else has signed it.
Student Pre-Work-Based Learning Worksheet—Complete it and return it to me.
Business Supervisor and Student Learning Goals—Fill it out, then you and your employer should go over it together. Once everyone has signed it, return it to me. This is how your employer will evaluate you.
Evaluation—This is how the employer will evaluate you at the end of each quarter. This will be 70% of your grade.
School Calendar—You do not have to report to work on days there is no school, late start days, and early out days.
Student/Guardian Transportation Permission Form—Get it filled out and then return it to me.
Student/Guardian Medical Emergency Release Form—Get it filled out and then return it to me.
Student/Guardian COVID-19 School Activities Permission Form—Get it filled out and then return it to me.
W-4—This is part of an assignment in Google Classroom. Complete the assignment & turn the completed W-4 in to me.
Student Final Project—Read it over. The project should be something meaningful for you and your employer. This is not a school project for me. You may want to work on the final project all semester.
In addition, please plan to be at Comet Time as much as you can on days when we will have assemblies to be a part of the school, especially since this is your senior year. If you need to miss work, arrive late, or leave early, please let your employer and I know as soon as you know. If you miss school, you will NOT report to work that same day. I am looking forward to working with you! Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Tracy Weber, BHS WBL Coordinator
1601 State Street
Bellevue, IA 52031
563 663 1344, tracyweber@bellevue.k12.ia.us
For Employers
For Employers
The Work-Based Learning Program offers students the opportunity to gain hands-on workplace skills and to apply their academic knowledge in a real-world setting. The program has been designed to promote students’ success in both postsecondary education and careers in the trades and everything in between. In addition, it provides our community with the opportunity to showcase job opportunities to our student are right here at home!
At the initial site visit, I will bring the following paperwork to review with you:
Syllabus Brochure—Read through it. This is what your senior will be expected to follow throughout the work-based learning experience.
NOTE: If your work-based learner misses school, they CANNOT go to work.
Employer Quick Start Guide--Read through it. It talks about what the program is all about.
Training Agreement—Your work-based learner will bring this to you to have you sign.
Sample Student Evaluation—This is what you will receive to score the work-based learners' on-the-job performance. This score is 70% of their grade. In place of the goals, I will fill in specific goals that you and the work-based learner agree upon.
Student Pre-Work-Based Learning Worksheet—Your work-based learner will bring this to you. Together, decide what the learning goals should be.
Business Supervisor and Student Learning Goals—Fill it out, then you and your employer should go over it together. Once everyone has signed it, return it to me. This is how your employer will evaluate you.
School Calendar—If there is no school, late start, or early dismissal, work-based learners are not expected to go to work; however, if they want to, you would like them to, and their parents are ok with it, they can go.
Student Final Project—I suggest 6 options, but they may choose option 7. This project is not a school project for me. Ideally, it is something that will benefit the employer and work-based learner in some way.
If the student will not be paid, then you will need to sign this form: Liability Waiver
For Parents
For Parents
The Work-Based Learning Program offers students the opportunity to gain hands-on workplace skills and to apply their academic knowledge in a real-world setting. The program has been designed to promote students’ success in all career areas--postsecondary education, trade-related careers, etc.
The Parent WBL Informational Materials:
Syllabus Brochure—Read through it. This is what your senior will be expected to follow throughout the work-based learning experience.
NOTE: If your work-based learner misses school, they CANNOT go to work.
Sample Student Evaluation—This is what the employers will receive to score the work-based learners on the job performance. This score is 70% of their grade. In place of the goals, I will fill in specific goals the work-based learner and their employer agree upon.
School Calendar—If there is no school, late start, or early dismissal, work-based learners are not expected to go to work; however, if they want to, their employer would like them to, and you are ok with it, they can go.
Student Final Project—I suggest 6 options, but they may choose option 7. This project is not a school project for me. Ideally, it is something that will benefit the employer and work-based learner in some way.
Thank you very much for allowing your senior to participate in this program. I am looking forward to working with you. Please feel free to contact me with any questions: 563-663-1344 or tracyweber@bellevue.k12.ia.us
Sincerely,
Mrs. Tracy Weber
BHS WBL Coordinator
Bellevue High School
1601 State Street
Bellevue, IA 52031
563 663 1344
tracyweber@bellevue.k12.ia.us
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