Work-Based Learning Glossary
A apprenticeship A workforce training model that combines paid on-the-job learning and formal classroom or online instruction to help a worker master the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed for career success. These programs generally vary…
Building Workers' Skills at Ralph H. Simpson Co.
An Illinois manufacturer uses the Industrial Manufacturing Technician apprenticeship program to build its workers’ skills. The Industrial Manufacturing Technician (IMT) apprenticeship program provides frontline manufacturing production workers with the knowledge and competencies needed in the…
The Business Case for Work-Based Learning
JFF can help JFF works with top companies like Lockheed Martin, John Deere, Nissan, Honda, and Best Buy to put work-based learning into action. We help companies assess their business drivers, evaluate talent needs, and…
Workforce Development Institute: Teamwork Makes the IMT Dream Work
This profile highlights how WDI, a Michigan intermediary, expands the IMT apprenticeship program through building and maintaining close relationships with employers. Intermediary Profile Workforce Development Institute (WDI) This workforce product was funded by a grant…
Self-Assessment and Planning Tool for Youth Apprenticeship Programs
This self-assessment and planning tool assists local, state, or regional lead entities and their partners in gauging their current capacity to establish a high-quality system for high school-based youth apprenticeships. This self-assessment and planning tool…
Growing Equity and Diversity Through Apprenticeship: Business Perspectives
More than 20 leading employers and industry associations share strategies for making apprenticeship programs more accessible to people from underrepresented populations. Despite the ongoing evolution of apprenticeship programs, there have been concerns that not all…
4 Strategies for Incorporating Equity and Diversity in Your Apprenticeship Program
This brief pulls up 4 approaches businesses are using to increase equity and diversity in their apprenticeship programs. This brief pulls up 4 approaches businesses are using to increase equity and diversity in their apprenticeship…
System Navigator: Work-Based Learning
This System Navigator will help you identify the key connection points of your work-based learning system. This System Navigator will help you identify the key connection points of your work-based learning system. Whether you are…
JFF's Framework for a High-Quality Pre-Apprenticeship Program
These 6 aspirational characteristics of high-quality pre-apprenticeship programs can build equity and improve success in new or existing programs. Pre-apprenticeship programs can be delivered by a range of entities and are designed to prepare underprepared…