Designing a New CTE Space 
         By:  Jordan Whittecar

Project at a Glance :
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Jenison Public Schools has a bond proposal for the next couple of years and wants students to create a plan for their ideal CTE (Career & Technical Education) space. This project can be adapted to other spaces or an actual business in the future.

Driving Question:

How can JPS design a new space to accommodate growing Career & Technical Education Programs?         

Standards:

• Attitude & Work Habits
• Interpersonal Skills
• Dependability & Reliability

Team / Culture Building:

• These are returning students that the teacher is familiar with their strengths and weaknesses.  Students will be grouped using the Which Department is Best for Me?,  by completing an Enneagram test, and completing THIS PROJECT.​​

​​Entry Event:

• Visit in person or virtually Hudsonville High School, Fruitport High School, and/or OAISD to see their new CTE spaces.
• Fishbowl (charades) activity with words about classrooms/businesses.

Stakeholders:

• District Architect
• Superintendent
• Principals
• CTE Director
• CTE Teachers
• CTE Students
• Coffee Shop Manager

Empathy Building:

• ​Students will create Empathy Maps for various Stakeholders.

Inquiry / Need to Knows:

• Conduct interviews with architect, CTE teachers, and students.​

• Need to Knows
• Breakup Letter
• Shadowing/Artifact (space) Analysis
• Outside Inspiration
• Draw the Problem/Big Paper

Incubation:

• Anti-problem
• Rip Slap Pass
• Mind Mapping​

Checking in:

• Beginning of each week the teacher will check in with groups.
• Start,  Stop, Continue protocol
• Who What When activity

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Solution Building:

• Students will share their research and create solutions as a group.
• Followed by using the Dot Voting strategy to narrow down ideas.​

Critique and Revision: 

•  After the dot vote, they will do the $100 Test to create different budgets for various solution ideas.
• Use the Feedback Capture Grid to organize ideas.

Authentic Audience:

• Architect
• Superintendent
• Principals
• CTE Director, Secretary, Teachers, and Students​
• 7th grade students
• Green Bean Coffee Shop Manager

Final Presentation:

• Presentations will be done in person using Canva resources as well as blueprints or 3D models.​

Reflection and Feedback:

• Use a rubric similar to the Future Prep’d one for feedback. 
• Students will be given points throughout project for successfully completing protocols.
• Students will do a group reflection and then an individual reflection. The CTE teachers will give feedback to groups.​

Click here for the teacher's Journey through PBL on Padlet . . .

Meet the Educator:

Jordan Whittecar teaches Business and Marketing classes at Jenison High School in Jenison, MI, as well as serves on the Michigan Marketing Educators Board and is a DECA Advisor. 

     "Students find value in their education when they are doing something that means something, and that's what PBL does."