Classroom speaking is an instructional strategy that has been successfully used for years to bring information from the community and business/labor leaders to students in classrooms. In the classroom speaking strategy, visiting business/labor/community partners incorporate how they use academics within their career field or place of work.

The Field Study Program is an instructional strategy that successfully demonstrates to students the relevance of their academic subjects to the world of work. Through the Field Study Program business/labor/community partners demonstrate how they use academics within their career field or place of work. The Field Study Program expands upon the field trip concept, allowing students to visit a business/industry site for an organized tour of the site, where a demonstration of how that particular business/industry uses academic knowledge and skills to accomplish necessary work. The partner works closely with the educator prior to the field study in order to learn more about the content standards the educator is required to teach, as well as core concepts that students need to understand to successfully achieve on standardized testing. With this knowledge, the partner incorporates some of the standards or core concepts in the field study and provides a hands-on activity or task in which the students apply these standards.

Applications by Business and Labor for Educators (ABLE) Classroom Demonstrations are offered by members of our Speakers' Bureau.