Check-In Forms
With check-in forms, students use surveys to help monitor their daily or weekly progress on a project.
Students might create an area for goals or for tasks and then use the checkmark option to monitor their progress and see trends.
However, they can also use this structure to self-reflect and keep themselves accountable.
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Find The Parts
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Juliani and I developed this as we created the LAUNCH Cycle.
Here, we asked students to engage in project management during the phases where they navigate ideas, prototype, and revise.
We use the acronym PARTS: Product Idea: Often this is an annotated sketch or even a project plan.
Audience: Here, they have a clarification of who their audienc.
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Fourth Component: Monitor, Adjust, and Problem-Solve
While tasks and deadlines are vital to project management, things will not always work according to plan.
Students can have the best-developed plans in the world, but ultimately life will happen.
But then the internet goes down for a day.
A group member gets sick for two days.
You have a fire drill and then an unplanned assembly.
A few students hit.
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How can a high school program in project management be developed?
Creation of a curriculum framework for a high school program in project management Connecting business/industry need for employees trained in project management to the education system Recognition of the importance of project management to all CTE programs of study in Washington .
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Second Component: Break Down Tasks and Set Deadlines
After students create goals, they can then break the project down into tasks and subtasks with clear setting deadlines.Often, teachers will set up external deadlines for various phases in a project.
But this can actually shortcut the vital skill of project management.
When students are able to break tasks down and set realistic deadlines, they are .
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Should high school students learn project management based on the PMBOK® Guide?
Because of the demonstrated value in having internationally recognized project management standards and a worldwide credentialing system, it has made not only good but spectacular sense to begin project management learning based on the PMBOK® Guide with high school students.
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Third Component: Choose and Implement Strategies
Once they have a clear plan, students begin to choose and implement their specific strategies.
Self-directed groups are able to determine what strategies they will use in order to complete their tasks.
They can select the resources and materials while also deciding on the processes that will work best for them.
So, when doing research, they might u.
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Trello
Trelloworks well for older students, because of issues around CIPA and COPPA compliance.
With Trello, students can share a project management board and then move tasks from one location to a new location (such as to-do, doing, finished).
They make it easy to archive lists and add resources and links to things like Google Docs.
Often, students will .
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Visualize The Project
This is a structure I saw with a special education teacher who worked with students on visualizing their project tasks in order to build up task analysis skills and improve executive function skills.
She began by giving each student butcher paper and having them create a large calendar.
Then, using sticky notes, they practiced visualizing each sub-.
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What is a project management lesson plan?
This lesson plan will support your instruction on project management skills and concepts with hands-on experiences.
A video lesson explains key concepts with examples, then students apply to a project to show what they know.
Copies of the lesson What is Project Management? - Definitions & Examples, one for each student .
A culminating project, is a project that challenges high school seniors to demonstrate their academic knowledge in an experiential way.
According to the United States Department of Education State Education Boards typically allow individual school districts to customize the project, based on basic state guidelines.
