MLHS students check out career choices
“The Shadow,” a fictional character found in comic books and some books, was a hero popular in the 1930s and 1940s who assumed various identities for his crime fighting work. “The Shadow knows” was the slogan chronicling the success of the crime-fighter in finding and stopping the bad folks.
That particular “Shadow” found career crime-fighting success in the observing life and the people in it. That idea has been extended to following various professionals while at work by those interested in particular careers – “job shadowing.”
Mountain Lake Public High School (MLHS) seniors have been job shadowing this week as part of the courses of English teachers Brenda Feil (Senior Writing) and Kim Syverson (College Writing).
The crux of the project is completing on-the-job learning and career development – and then putting down what was learned on paper. Students pick one day (Monday-Thursday), and must shadow for at least six hours.
A number of students traveled to Minneapolis, St. Peter, Jeffers and Windom to job shadow, but some checked out careers closer to home.
These “Shadows” now know what it takes to be a professional in the career they observed for a day.
Three of the seniors job shadowing in Mountain Lake are profiled below:
