INTERAGENCY PROJECT-BASED LEARNING

Creating New Pathways for Student Success

Deborah Moffit, Interagency Project Coordinator

Success by Design - by Deborah Moffit on the New Horizons for Learning website

Different Ways of Knowing & Different Ways of Showing - by Deborah Moffit

Learning Styles - other articles on the New Horizons for Learning website

Project Goals

• Student Self-Discovery
• Student Achievement of Standards
• Applications for Basic Skill development
• Portfolio Product
• Service to the Community

DCM (Discipline, Confidence, Motivation) Langston-Hughes drama project.

Integration

• Projects provide alternative ways to develop competency
• Projects provide opportunities for other ways of knowing
• Projects integrate basic, social and employment skills

Competitive Analysis

• Projects employ Experiential Learning aligned to learning styles:
• learning is interactive; students create while they learn from community professionals
• Students have fun while they learn and produce:
• assessment is asset-based, enrollment self-selective, motivation and self-esteem increased
• Projects are on and off-campus in the community
• community professionals mentor students in career interest areas
• projects connect school to community resources and the workplace
  
• a lternative vs. traditional learning strategies
• interactive, relevant, performance-based
• integration of the instruction models

Integrated active learning through the Environmental Science Program.

Technology

• State-of-the-Art technical skill development
• Marketable skills in the arts and communications and more
• Standards in line with the district and state
• Skill development in the context of real-world performance and production

Team/Resources

• This is a group process and we will succeed only if we are all onboard
• We need you and the resources that you bring to the development of projects
• We need transportation from school to the project sites
• We need support and funding from the A&S to the online classroom staff
• We need off-site locations for some projects
• We need the projects and the disciplines to be given the equal status

Student artworks on gallery display

Procedures

• Students self-select at school sites by interest or career path
• Students earn .5 occupational education credits for 90 hours in the projects

Schedule

• Projects will be scheduled in the afternoon hours, unless otherwise stated