Remote & Virtual Options

Guest Speaker Remote Classroom

An industry or employer partner visits a remote classroom as a guest speaker and provides a presentation on the speaker’s career, business or organization and industry. Learners ask questions to help them consider whether they might like to pursue a career in the industry.

Guest Speaker Virtual Activity

Identify and select a recorded guest speaker to use as a foundation for an activity and discussion in the classroom.

Guest Speaker Hybrid Activity

Record the session and arrange for the guest speaker to return to the remote classroom for a short amount of time to answer specific questions from a new group of learners.

Career Day Remote Classroom (with Breakouts)

An interactive, online career day where employers visit a classroom or classrooms remotely. After a panel presentation, learners visit individual industry partners in breakout rooms. At the end of the session, the class comes back together to share what they’ve learned and reflect on the activity.

Career Day Remote Classroom (Sequenced)

Schedule a number of industry partners to visits he remote classroom or set of classrooms throughout a school day. Combine a brief Guest Speaker activity followed by a group informational interview.

Career Day Research & Share

Have learners conduct online research on a range of careers in an industry of interest, gather information, find compelling recorded presentations on careers in the industry and have them share their findings in the remote classroom.

Consider making it a team-based activity and have a small group of learners work together and prepare a presentation for the rest of the class or pathway cluster.

Career Day Hybrid Activity

Record a career day panel and use it as a basis for a remote classroom activity.

If possible, have one or more of the career day panelists visit the remote classroom to share information and answer questions.

Remote Note

Learners who are currently paired with a Career Mentor may continue to receive support via telephone or some other technology if the necessary permissions, protections and guidance are in place to promote learner safety.

Remote Note

Some employers may be in a position to conduct a remote tour of their workplace, perhaps as part of a scheduled Guest Speaker activity.

Remote Informational Interviews (by Phone or Internet)

RA learner formally interviews an Industry Partner over the phone or internet about his or her industry, educational and career path, and chosen profession.

Virtual Informational Interviews

Learners review a prerecorded interview with an industry professional in the remote classroom and engage in a guided discussion after the interview.  What did you learn?  What surprised you? What do you wish the person had been asked? How can you follow up to learn more?

Consider having learners conduct on-line research to locate prerecorded interview session with employers and use those on the classroom.)

Remote Note

Job shadowing does not lend itself to remote or virtual activities.

Remote Mock Interview (by Phone or Internet)

A learner is formally interviewed via telephone, Facetime, SKYPE, Microsoft Teams or Zoom by an Industry Partner as if they were applying for a job with the company the partner represents.

Mock Interview Remote Classroom

Multiple Employers are invited to a remote classroom and are assigned to breakout rooms and interview a number of learners individually.

Mock Interview Hybrid Activity

View a recorded mock interview and have learners critique it in the classroom.

Remote Workplace Challenge

Download the Provider Guide: The Workplace Challenge

Remote Internships

In a remote internship, a learner is engaged in his or her internship remotely. Many industries and employer partners have recently shifted to a model where their employees work from home-based settings. Most of these employers have established protocols, communications systems and supports to ensure that work is productive, employees are engaged and connected to each other.  These same protocols apply to interns who are completing their internship from home.

Download the CareerReady Work Learn Grow Remote Internship Industry Partner Guide

Virtual Internships

Virtual Internships are simulations where a learner or group of learners can select a particular career or occupation, conduct online research and then address and complete one or more mock assignments for review by a teacher or WBL connector.

Virtual Internships Website
Created by Sue Gubing and WBL Coordinators with the support of Perkins funding
https://sites.google.com/site/virtualinternshipswbl/2020-virtual-internship
Each Virtual Internship involves selecting one of more than 70 occupations, conducting guided research on the occupation and its educational or training pathway followed by the completion of three simulated task associated with the job.

Remote Work Experience

In a remote work experience, a learner is engaged as an employee with an employer or organization partner. As with internships. many industries and employers have recently shifted to a model where their employees work from home-based settings. Most of these employers have established protocols, communications systems and supports to ensure that work is productive, employees are engaged and connected to each other.  These same protocols apply to learners who are working from home.

Across the country, communities put young people to work in subsidized work experiences designed to provide skill development and the acquisition of employability skills.