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Thinking Technicians

Developing people for the new economy

Vision

Create an organization over the next three (3) years that achieves a benefit to society and skill learning for youth by creating a training organization that facilitates Skill learning for College & Career readiness process.   

Our organization will provide work space and tools for its employees that will create an excellent culture and team work that will be viewed by industry as a model.

Our students will support and assist the community .  

• Get potential students excited about learning (life-long learners).

   

  Quickly build Thinking Technicians needed in the market place.

• Have students build the reasoning skills to manage in today’s society and begin to build a set of skills to use in multiple careers.

• Understand that problems are opportunities.  The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.

• Have students better prepared to be better citizens.

Why do you think its important to learn life-skills?  What key words would they use to describe them? Have you use them in a sports team?

Ask the students:

• What class they had that made them feel good about learning? 

• What was it about it that did it for them?

• If they have no answer, what teacher did they have that did not help them and why?

• Why do they think it is important for them to be good learners?

• Identify your highest hopes and deepest fears in life?

Recognize that you own your learning and are responsible for its success Think of yourself as in your own business of learning,. What are you going to do to be successful?   “Students  need to change their disposition toward school away from being directed by someone else to an attitude of working for your-self—agency, self-discipline, initiative and risk-taking are all important on the job.”

Students should use a to-do list, develop a personal learning plan and create a portfolio of their best work

They learn to self-manage their time, reflect on how things are going again the plan and how to check-in when they know they need support.

Cornell System

Our commitment to the student:

We are firm on expectations and principles but flexible on pathways give students time to engage deeply and opportunities to succeed and fail, and support the development of self-direction.

High engagement schools start from a different conception—knowledge co-creation and active production. They design a very different learner experience and support it with a student-centered culture and opportunities to improve self-regulation, initiative and persistence—all key to self-directed learning.

Project Academy Culture Statement

Overview Presentation:   Engineering Mind-set (Thought concept for the program )

Role of the facilitator   Emphasis on building learning skills by facilitating meta-cognitive questions during the process The definition of facilitate is "to make easy" or "ease a process." What a facilitator does is plan, guide, provide feedback and manage a group event to ensure that the group's objectives are met effectively, with clear thinking, good participation and full buy-in from everyone who is involved. Flipped Learning Flipped Learning is a pedagogical approach in which direct instruction moves from the group learning space to the individual learning space, and the resulting group space is transformed into a dynamic, interactive learning environment where the educator guides students as they apply concepts and engage creatively in the subject matter. Discussion of Life-Skills Boost your career Preparing our students for the 21st century society and careers     The ultimise list of skills  Everyone knows that employers look at qualifications and work experience on your CV, but what you may not know is that they also look for what are known as ‘soft skills’, and these can sometimes be more valuable than what you studied at school. They relate to your attitude and how you approach certain situations in the workplace. Life-skills-career-ready Starting-pre-employment-program  Design Themes  Social media Skills description     Creativity-module   Boost your career

• Overview Document
• Slides

Overview Training plan for each section

This learning concept is a combination of on-line web based self-learning (Flip process), collaborative web team software and a facilitator to tie it all together. The basic process is learning about self, being part of a team, problems solving, presenting your conclusion to the community and reflection.    Life skills are infused during this process.

The instructional ingredients of success, the sites found,

• include short videos of six minutes or less,

• interspersed with interactive drills and tests;

• online forums where students share problems and suggestions;

• and online mentoring and tutoring.

          Detail project Plans 

The basic project for the students:

The learning can be broken into major parts 0.0 Start the class by first breaking up the class into teams of 4-5 people.  The learning will progress in order of starting at unit 1.0 thru 9.0.  The team members are to read the FLIP pages prior to the class.  The goal is to get the students to begin self-learning.  When looking at the FLIP learning, it is best to have a learning buddy studying with you.   Peer Learning 1.0  Ice Breaker ...   Marshmallow project (Begin our thoughts on the problem to be solved) Brain Plasticity (Mindset)  2.0 Your strengths & Attitude Valuing yourself, attitude, confidence, Social & Emotional learning, your goals FLIP     About You  3.0 Forming teams and setting community values, norms see forming team-work-2 handbook above Flip learning page 4.0 Tools for Corporate Design Process, Customer focus, Measurements, Communication, Questioning  FLIP  Tools Questioning 5.0 a) Picking a project ...  b)  Requirements & Measurements   Flip Problem framing, Design 6.0 Problem solving process...  another design process  Circular design   Flip:  Problem-Solving 7.0 Testing:   Testing and Reflection  Meta-cognition Elevator pitch used for Public Reporting FLIP: Testing 8.0 Public reporting and feedback FLIP:  Reporting 9.0 Follow-up refresher meeting's ·   ``

During each of the sections, Life-Skills are cognitively infused while the students are doing their tasks  Life-skills versus learning project elements

Hire “whole-brained” talent. Today’s in-house roles require a broader skill set, with  a balanced mix of left- and right-brain skills. This means, for instance, content producers and experience designers who are comfortable using data, and data-driven marketers who are willing to  hink outside the box and move closer to consumers. McKinsey research shows that companies able to successfully integrate data and creativity grow their revenues at twice the average rate of S&P 500 companies. Most importantly, modern marketing organizations don’t need managers to manage people; they need people to manage output and track performance.

Project data:

Approximately 10 one hour sessions

• Student-Intro File (pdf)
• overview-list (pdf)
• Plan (pdf)

Brain Plasticity

Thinking skills

the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual

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