Structured Workplace Learning

Structured Workplace Learning

Structured Workplace Learning (SWL) assists students in making informed decisions about their tranzitions from school to post school options. This programme assists students in learning relevant, assessable skills on the job while experiencing what an industry or occupation can really offer. The tranzitions @ work structured workplace leaning experience turns the intangible into reality through experience.

Structured Workplace Learning aims to:

• Provide students with an opportunity to relate school studies with workplace contexts;
• Prepare students for the demands and expectations of the working world;
• Help students make informed career decisions by assessing their aptitudes and interests, and exploring potential careers;
• Acquaint students with non-gender stereotyped occupations;
• Give students insights into the nature of the diversity of employees in the workplace;
• Improve students’ maturity, confidence and self reliance;
• Provide a link between the school and the local community;
• Provide opportunities for students to become more informed about current labour market issues; and
• Provide opportunities for students to learn about family care, household management and other unpaid work options in community activities

Benefits to Employers

• Development of supervisory skills in the employees who take on the role of workplace supervisors
• An “extra pair of hands” for entry-level and routine tasks
• Minimization of the gap between what teachers consider students need to learn and employers’ expectations regarding what students have learnt at school
• Access to a pool of well-trained potential workers.  The employers can deliver the training they consider appropriate and also observe the students on the job
• Reduction of recruitment, selection and induction costs
• Raising of the business’s profile in the community