Activity Toolkit

Workplace Tour

NYACH Ready for Healthcare

Resources for employers, educators, and students hosting or participating in workplace tours and visits

Why offer workplace tours?

Activities that take place virtually or on high school campuses—like guest speaker events—can make career exploration more accessible to students.

Seeing healthcare professionals in their ‘real-life’ work environments, however, encourages students to make the connection between what they’ve learned in school settings and what actually happens on the ground in a healthcare setting.

After hearing about a range of healthcare professions during classroom activities, workplace tours allow students to delve deeper.

The Ready for Healthcare Workplace Tour Toolkit materials cover:

  • the purpose of a workplace tour

  • pre-tour research and preparation for students and educators

  • student active listening and notetaking

  • types of healthcare professions and associated responsibilities

  • sample activities and agendas for employers hosting workplace tours

  • professional networking skills for students

  • reflection and evaluation

Download some or all of these resources in the “Tools & Materials” section below.

Tools & Materials

The Workplace Tour Activity Toolkit includes:

  • an activity guide and sample activities for host employers to use during the tour

  • a sample workplace tour agenda

  • a guide for educators, including learning objectives and plans for guided activities that students complete before, during, and after a workplace tour, as well as student assessment resources

  • a checklist for educators preparing for site visits

  • a student packet with activity worksheets and other guided resources

  • evaluation templates for employers, educators, and students to reflect on the efficacy of the workplace tour

Each tool is available as an editable Microsoft Word .docx file. You can download all of the resources as a compressed .zip package or as individual files.

 

NYACH’s Ready for Healthcare initiative was funded as part of JPMorgan Chase’s New Skills for Youth initiative.