Educators in the Workplace, Pittsburgh Regional Compact



	Classroom Speakers Workplace Tours Job Shadowing Career Mentoring Work Readiness Training Educators in the Workplace Graduation Project Advisors Internships Educators in the Workplace What is it? An employer hosts a teacher for several days during the summer. A step-by-step curriculum guides the teacher toward linking a real-world work experience to his or her teaching and career education. What needs to be accomplished? Employers should identify several employees for the teacher to shadow during his or her time with the company. Ensure that participating teachers have programmed activities to occupy them and to help them better understand the employer’s business. What is the benefit? By hosting a teacher, an employer can provide valuable insight and experience and facilitate the use of real world examples in the classroom. Such visits lead to a back-and-forth between educators and employers that creates better understanding between the education and business communities, and lays the foundation for further partnership.
The Pittsburgh Regional Compact is an employer-driven initiative collaboratively sponsored by the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, business leaders, educators, students, educational institutions and workforce development organizations across the 10-county Pittsburgh region.