Midlands Educators Gain Hands-On Work Experience Through MEBA's Teachers in the Workplace Summer Course
For one week in June, 13 Midlands educators returned to the classroom – not to a typical classroom constructed of four walls and housed in a school, but a classroom created from hands-on learning experiences within several local businesses and industries – a true classroom in the world of work.
MEBA's Teachers in the Workplace is a three-hour course designed to expose educators to the world of business, showing how work-based skills connect to school-based learning. Participating educators each spend 40 hours in a challenging position with a local business or industry to learn about the skills, both hard and soft, students need to be successful in a particular field. Educators share their experience and knowledge with their students, helping to provide a more seamless connection between school and work.
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MEBA’s 2008 Teachers in the Workplace course participants. Front row (l to r): Paula Dunn, Blythewood High; Dr. Kaye Shaw, MEBA; Lisa Call, MEBA; Michelle Eargle, MTC; Samantha Turner, MEBA. Second Row: Kathy Rivers, Dutch Fork High; Edith Jordan, Brookland-Cayce High; Elizabeth Gale, Pelion Middle; Paul Dobyns, Spring Valley High; Shelia Gordon, White Knoll High. Third row: Dana Crowley, Lexington High; Margaret Ramsey, Lexington Alternative Learning Center; Janet Reamy, Carolina Springs Middle; Sue Shumpert, St. Andrews Middle. Back row: Scott Ganucheau, White Knoll High; Kenneth Vause, Airport High. |
Local businesses serving as hosts for this year’s course participants include: CMC Steel of South Carolina; Lexington Medical Center; Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative; Palmetto Health; Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals; Recruiting Solutions; SCANA; South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum; South Carolina Electric & Gas - Wateree Station; and Total Comfort.
As always, this was a great year for MEBA's Teachers in the Workplace course," said Lisa Call, MEBA's Chief Operating Officer. "In just one week these educators have come away with valuable new experiences and contacts they can use to add meaning and relevance to their work as educators and help students successfully transition into the world of work."
