SJHS Job Shadow Day

There is one day in the school year when seventh grade students at Springville junior high get to participate in job shadow day.  Job shadow is a day where all seventh grade students get the opportunity to miss school and go explore the job of an adult.  This event was on Friday February 1, 2013. The students actually got to choose what job they wanted to go explore, which makes things a lot better for their learning experience.

Some seventh-grade students said that some of the jobs looked really hard, and some jobs on the other hand looked really easy. Mr. Rencher, a CTE teacher at SJHS, said, “I think this is great learning experience. It definitely teaches them how hard a typical job is.”  According to Mr. Rencher, this learning experience teaches students the importance of having a job.  He also said, “I think we should continue doing this, it’s a great learning experience. There’s really no other experience like this.” Most kids really like to go to explore the job of being a teacher. 

Anarely Oliva, a seventh grader, said, “The third grade students were really hard to take care of they don’t seem to listen very much about what they were told to do. It’s not easy being a third grade teacher. It requires a lot of patience.” Some of the kids at SJHS had a hard day at work, but some of the students did really enjoyed it, and would like to repeat the process all over again.

This day gives students an opportunity to start thinking about what they want to do as they think about their future. One of the reasons why the CTE teachers do job shadow day is because it’s a wonderful learning experience. Our teachers and students think that this is not only fun for the students, but that it is also a very good day to teach kids about things that they probably didn’t know about before job shadow day. It also gives students knowledge about  jobs that they probably didn’t even know about. Most of the students at SJHS enjoyed job shadow day, and would like to do it again.