General Guidelines for Instructors

General Guidelines for Instructors  A copy of the student packet is available in the workroom for copying. However, please encourage students to use Pioneer’s website to access forms.

 Encourage and guide students to use various sources found on the Internet for their research.

 Remind students to take pictures of their products in progress as they need these as evidence of their work.

 Students as wells as instructors need to see rubrics. Instructors are free to weight rubrics’ points as they need.

 Stick as close to the timeline as possible, checking it not only for dates, but also for responsibilities.

 Students may work in pairs for their products, but their research papers must be completed separately. Presentations may then be conducted as a pair with each student responsible for 6-8 minutes of the presentation time (total time for pair presentation: 12-16 minutes).

 Encourage students to use business/industry as sources for information, and if possible for their type of program, to have “customers” to make products problem-based.

 The research component of the paper (1st half of the paper) should be 3-5 pages of typed text (exceptions may be made for special needs students). The 3-5 pages of typed text do NOT include: title page, graphic pages, and reference page(s).

 The product analysis component of the paper (2nd half of the paper) should be 2-3 pages of typed text.

 Remind students there are experts available within our building—science, math, government teachers as well as administrators and classified staff can be helpful and be sources of information for students.

 This is a team effort. We should all be working together to make this process educational and streamlined for students.

 Have fun with the senior project and show a positive attitude with the students. Our attitude helps the students’ attitudes. When we encourage them, they are less overwhelmed and frustrated.

 If you have any questions, check with one of the senior project team members: Mary Cosker, Mike Millward, Dena Kirby, Vickie Hunt, Dave Such, Darin Beal, Dawn Roberts, Jenifer Stewart or Katie Fiske.

Revised: 4/25/2018