Join us for two days of work-based learning (WBL) professional development led by Dr. Cynthia Miller from Texas Tech University’s Family and Consumer Sciences Education program. Earn up to 14 CEUs while learning about strategically integrating work-based learning into your middle school and high school Family and Consumer Science courses.

Learning Objectives:

• Be aware of solutions to common barriers to offering WBL
• Describe different options for offering WBL opportunities to students
• Communicate solutions to common challenges to offering quality WBL opportunities
• Identify ways to engage parents as volunteers in WBL
• Identify ways to incorporate the WBL continuum elements in WBL opportunities
• Recognize how access, selection, liability, transportation, and evaluations can be communicated 
• Utilize key resources in teaching federal laws and regulations specific to WBL
• Develop a WBL Action Plan that aligns with each student’s education and career goals, can be implemented in-person or remotely, and includes documented reflection and learning
• Develop a WBL Action Plan that incorporates activities for each level of the WBL continuum
• Determine strategies to measure the quality and success of WBL opportunities