 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 Committees continued  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!