Benefits of Practicum

For the student:

Students have the opportunity for learning useful employment skills on real jobs under actual working conditions.
Interest in classroom work is stimulated by the application of academic and job-related learning to job situations.
Students develop understanding, appreciation, and respect for work and workers.
The ability to get and hold a job helps young people develop a mature and realistic concept of self.
The transition from school to employment is made easier.
The ability of the student to develop a post-high school pin for employment and continuing education is enhanced.

For the school:

A school that conducts cooperative on-the-job training is able to extend educational opportunities that are beyond its own physical and financial resources.
Interaction with training professionals outside the school is provided in the training of young people.
Teachers, guidance counselors, and school administrators are provided with improved opportunities to keep in touch with changing employment conditions.
Cooperative on-the-job training is a living demonstration of the concept that education is indeed a community-wide partnership.

For the community:

The number of young people making a successful transition from school to work is increased, thereby adding to the number of economically productive members of society.
A continuing pattern of school-community partnerships is developed.
Cooperative on-the-job training helps improve the community’s pattern of job stability by giving local students job skills and civic competence.

For the employer/training sponsor:

The private sector is provided with opportunities to take an active part in the education and career preparation of students in the local community.
Students are prepared to work in their own localities, under the supervision and following the methods of a specific local employer.
Classroom instruction gives student-learners a more thorough understanding of job-related theory and knowledge.

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