Attendance
Students: Nathan Clark, Hannah Dick, and Silvan Skelly
Members: John Gerecht, Luke Bowerman, Marc Turnbow and Scott Le Duc
Agenda
- Discuss issues from the student's perspective
- The "how" of the day-to-day skills development
- Classroom management
- Making limited time and equipment work more efficiently
Introductions
- Our high achieving students are:
- Nathan Clark and Hannah Dick; seniors working in Visual Communications at Capital
- Silvan Skelly; a junior working in Visual Communications at Capital
Curriculum Strategies Discussed
- How to create appropriate structure to allow enough freedom to advanced students yet enough support for students who need more direction?
- Need to shake the "easy class" perception
- Draws students who may not be best suited for the class
- Makes it harder for serious students to succeed
- How to shake the "easy class" perception?
- Hold "slackers" more accountable
- Teachers be stricter and more consistent with grades, deadlines and accountability
- Advertise the power of the program
- Showcase images in the windows of the new classroom
- Present a video at the end of year arts assembly
- Made with Flash by Zach Saplan or Chris Waugh?
- Have peer review of student work
- Include a peer student grade for the project that would be taken "under consideration" by the teacher
- This could cause students to be more serious about their work if they know they are being watched by the serious students
- This could take the form of:
- Anonymous Post It™ note comments
- Small panel of advanced students who consider the content, either openly or in closed session
- Teacher selected material that is posted and commented on
- This option would entail the teacher picking only the high quality work for review
- The idea being that students would want to be selected or to "make the cut"
- Students who don't "make the cut" would be supported directly by the teacher to help them perform better on the next project.
- Have a qualifying project at the beginning of second term
- If students perform well in an independent atmosphere, they "earn" the right to have more freedom with the structure of the class
- The students that don't fair well work more closely with the teacher
- Don't mandate that all student work be critiqued by students during
class, only "worthy" work
- Many students don't know what to say about a poor quality piece if it has already been identified as such
- It is hard to focus on the positive if there is little positive to focus upon
- The teacher should reserve comments on these pieces and help support these students achieve higher quality for the next review
- Have a round table discussion of images
- One image is held up either student generated or professional and all student galvanize their ideas first on paper for a few minutes then comment on quality and content
- Hold "slackers" more accountable
- Maximizing resources
- Have students work in small groups with advanced and beginning students
combined together
- Some would start with photography and other with computers
- Midterm each group would switch areas
- This would help avoid the traffic jam in the darkroom when lots of beginning or advanced students need to get projects done
- Continue to explore the advanced adoption of beginning students
- See how one-on-one mentoring works vs. the "best of" advanced students team teaching sections
- Have students work in small groups with advanced and beginning students
combined together
VICA or Skills USA registration
- Capital is one step closer to being affiliated with Skills
USA and the Washington State
Chapter.
- What is it? - "A national organization serving more than 279,771 high school and college students and professional members enrolled in training programs in technical, skilled, and service occupations, including health occupations."
- We sent in our initial application
- Skills USA will be a great opportunity for our students to showcase their skills and compete with other students in the state and country.
Next Meeting
- Rusty Cockridge (Jerome's home and studio), 6:00 PM February 22, 2006. We will be feeding you Pizza. Any suggestions on toppings?
Meeting Extension: Frameworks and Pathways Consideration
- Our programs are a part of the State of Washington's Technology
and Industry Career and Technical Pathway
- We are certified to teach certain Classification of Instructional Programs or CIP coded classes
- We are offering classes that cover our existing classifications, but we are branching out into new areas and need to consider getting classified in these area also.
- ACTION ITEM: Please review the linked CIP Codes Image or
CIP Codes PDF
- Yellow highlights are current classifications and red boxes are new considerations
Action Items
- Scott and Kevin will work out some of the ideas presented by the students and report back with feedback on progress.
- I think we need to have students at each meeting.
- What do other members think?
- Scott thinks we need to invite back these three students to have them assess the new ideas implementation. Can he get a second to this motion? :)