PROPOSAL
This week, students should be forming, testing, and proposing project ideas. Some may have fully developed plans and others may have plans for how they will begin exploring; either way it is important to make a commitment to one version of what, why, and how. Project Advisors will place specific constraints and expectations on written proposals.
- What will be required in the proposal?
- What format should it be in?
- How will it be submitted?
- When will it be due?
- How will the feedback, revision, and approval process look?
- What makes a project a project: Scale? Innovation? Personal learning? Public purpose? Etc?
RITUALIZED WEEK
Advisors will facilitate the development of a ritualized week, meaning there will be some aspects of the week that are consistent from week to week. (For example, the beginning of class on Friday is already ritualized with ELA Process Journal Reflections) Consider the following to start:
- How and when will you look at professional models in your discipline?
- Who will select them? How?
- How will the thinking about the model be documented?
- How much time should be allotted for this?
- Where will examples be stored, to revisit later?
- What else?
- How and when will students receive/give feedback on projects?
- What formats of feedback are most effective?
- How often will this occur?
- How can a student request feedback from the whole group, from a peer, from their advisor, or someone who is not in the room?
- What else?
- How and when will there be studio time?
- What are the Project Advisor's expectations for documenting daily goal setting, evidence, and reflection in process journals?
- How will studio time begin and end?
- What should the environment look and feel like?
- What are the procedures for requesting materials, meetings, movement to other spaces in the school?
- What else?
Most students have already started research, since research includes being inspired by professional models, looking up definitions, reading news about a topic, watching YouTube videos, and more. It is important to document all of these sources right away, by setting up an EasyBib project or using another designated space. All sources must be cited.
