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Graphic Design Institute

Overview

Managing the Curriculum

Industry Driven

Implementing Project-Based Strategies

Meeting CTE, State, & Industry Standards

Adapt Projects to your Students

Provide Input to Us (CTE)

Driven by Industry

Skills, trends, certifications

Advisory Committees Help you keep develop more authentic

or real-world projects Can help guide decisions that encourage

administrations to listen and initiate changes Necessary for Perkins funding

Follow the Perkins Advisory Committee Handbook

Advisory Committeescontinued

Find Great People for your Advisory Committees Stay in touch with them – keep them as advisors

and consultants Don’t have friends, colleagues, or "Yes" people. Have members that can challenge you and tell you things

you don't always want to hear Meet with members individually when possible

Have meetings at alternate locations. Visit their locations. Document everything

Stay on top of the Industry

You can… Participate in Professional Organizations Stay in touch with other professionals, educators in

your field, including post-secondary. Observe what some of the best in the field are doing

and strive for that level. Expose your students to the best of the best in the

field. Give them something to strive for. Motivate them. Show them Robin's students!

Keep growing professionally. Keep learning

Implement Project-Based Learning Strategies

Validate Pre-existing Skills/Knowledge Pre-tests, Surveys, Activities Discussions

Utilize Essential Question/Key Questions The Problem Statement that gives meaning

to what they are about to undertake They see the bigger picture and are more engaged from

the beginning. They have a problem to solve. A road map Gives you direction. Gives you opportunities

to provide the right scaffolding when needed

Implement Project-Based Learning Strategies

Student Centered Have students do the research, create the notes,

make the discoveries, create new paths Have students teach, help others, share ideas

critique, make presentations You provide the bridges, the scaffolding when necessary,

rather than having them on training wheels Keep students journaling, documenting, creating

their own notes, notebooks, resources, portfolios

Implement Project-Based Learning Strategies

Collaboration Encourage teamwork and group projects when possible

Provide roles for team members, make it fun, make it competitive

Allow collaboration to promote brainstorming, think tanks, thinking outside of the box

Implement Project-Based Learning Strategies

Differentiated Learning Allow students to drive the content,

choose different routes to the same conclusion

Embrace mistakes, failures as learning opportunities.How many great innovations, discoveries began as mistakes.

Provide opportunities for alternatives,choices, individualism, ownership.

Implement Project-Based Learning Strategies

Encourage more Critical-Thinking, Analysis & Problem solving – as projects unfold Move from knowledge skills to performance skills to

higher level skills (Bloom's Taxonomy)

Identify, describe > create develop > analyze, solve

Allow them to present their findings,their final product & reflect on how they arrived there

Implement Project-Based Learning Strategies

Provide assessment and feedback often Provide formative assessments. Quizzes that don't

count. Games, activities, small projects to assess where they are.

Critique. Use guidelines for critique. Give opportunities for revising, modifying –

encourage revision as a natural part of the process. Have students reflect in journaling,

and in presentations

Adapt the Projects to your students and needs

Own the projects Make the curriculum work for you and your

students. If you need help, encounter dilemmas, have unique

situations, contact us We will make an effort to create a community for

sharing ideas, asking questions getting help, advice input, partnerships

We all have the same goal - to have our students and our programs be successful!