Project-Based Learning with Agile Project Management

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Project-Based Learning with Agile Project Management

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Are you striving to prepare students who are college and career ready with modern 21^st century skills?  Join us to learn how you can use Agile Project Management to make project based learning even more powerful for your students. Agile Project Management is a strategy widely used by modern businesses across the STEAM sectors from technology giants like Google and Apple to award-winning storytellers like National Public Radio. The Agile approach places a high value on individuals, collaboration, and the ability to respond to change.

This workshop adapts Agile Project Management from the business world to the classroom. Execute flexible and efficient project-based learning while helping your students attain the valuable attitudes and skills that prepare them for success in our modern world.

Develop strategies to help students:

• Manage their own cohesive teams.
• Learn to collaborate effectively with others
• Respond to change as project work evolves
• Get project work done without teacher intervention
• Manage time, set goals, and monitor their own success

Participation:

• Three Full Day Sessions – Free of Charge
  • Date: March 1, 2 and a third date in March TBD collaboratively
  • Time: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
  • Location: 102 Townsend Hall, University of Missouri Columbia Campus
• Online Community participation February 23 through March
• Substitute teacher reimbursement to district- $75 / day
• Teacher stipend for Agile Project lesson development – $291.00

Sponsored by Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Pathways Project

Delivered by eMINTS National Center Staff

Schedule:

Thursday, March 1   9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Topics

• Participate in an Agile Management Experience
• Agile Management Strategies for your Classroom
• Design Authentic Real-world Project Tasks
• Interact with a Nureva Span Board

Friday, March 2   9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Topics

• Panel of Entrepreneurs and Project Managers
• Field Trip to Shelter’s Say Insurance Group
• Agile Lesson Design

Third Session in late March – Date to be determined by participants – 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Topics

• Sharing of Classroom Experiences
• The Agile Manifesto for Your Classroom
  • People Focus for Project Management
  • Getting Stuff Done
  • Collaboration over Negotiation
  • Responding to Change Instead of Sticking to a Plan
• Panel – University of Missouri Young Entrepreneurs

Two Summer Coding Opportunities: Sign up today!

Are you an educator interested in introducing your students to coding and computational thinking?

• Two FREE summer coding opportunities   
• FREE Agent Cubes Software
• Earn up to a $500 participant stipend
• Graduate credit available!

Through the grant-funded oDreams project, eMINTS will be offering two professional learning experiences this summer:

View the details of the courses, including purpose and learning objectives

View the oDreams Project website

Closing the Digital Divide with help from Generation YES

Successful eMINTS teachers who want to increase their impact in schools now have a new resource to turn to: Generation YES, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with twenty years of experience developing student-led technology support and professional development. As you know, the eMINTS model inspires teachers to use technology to create effective Digital Age learning spaces. So, it is only natural for teachers who have participated in eMINTS programs to build upon their own knowledge and experience and truly incorporate students as part of their school’s transformation efforts.

Highly qualified educators and IT staff don’t have enough hours in the day or the capacity to provide real-time support and training opportunities for students and faculty. Generation YES offers support by creating a web-based platform and curriculum to harness the energy and technology expertise of students in grades 4-12. These students collaborate with educators and other adults to integrate 21st century technology in schools, improving the learning process. While this strategy has become increasingly popular as a ‘homegrown’ model, Generation YES has the experience and existing structure to ensure the success and growth of the program in schools.

The GenYES program, unlike traditional top-down professional development strategies, provides a unique approach to teacher training for technology integration. The program creates a partnership between technology literate students and teachers in the school. This is designed to develop and deliver practical uses of technology into the teachers’ classrooms in order to meet standards and improve student learning. Because of the way that GenYES builds these learning partnerships, it supports such education reform initiatives as real-world relevancy, 21st century skills, problem solving, lifelong learning, technology integration, and collaboration/teamwork for both teachers and students. These initiatives are woven into the fabric of all of the national and state standards for students and for teacher professional development. GenYES also addresses the following:

•       The need for new methods of teaching and learning to empower students. There is a need for a learning environment where students see the relevance of their education and develop self-esteem resulting from successful contributions to their world.
•       The need to address the overburdening of educators and the complexity of today’s many technologies. GenYES student technology leaders can make a huge impact on helping teachers in today’s schools.
•       The need for a learning paradigm that allows students and teachers to work collaboratively to address problems and increase academic skills and intellectual performance. We need to expand the ideas of what students can do to help reform schools. Students are an important resource for teachers. The capabilities of children are often underestimated.
•       The need to provide equitable access to technology resources. Many schools and homes do not provide sufficient access to computers and networks. Rural and large city schools are especially ill equipped to prepare their students for their futures in an increasingly technological world.
•      The need to improve student reading and writing skills within the context of content area instruction. By integrating problem solving, research, and presentation skills using technology, students improve these essential communication skills seamlessly.

Generation YES is about trusting in the power of youth to meaningfully contribute to their experiences in education. Please visit genyes.org for more information about the GenYES program including research, whitepapers, implementation models, and news. To inquire about bringing GenYES to your eMINTS school, please email support@genyes.org.

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Teachers needed for Genius Hour and Coding Workshop

Teachers needed for Genius Hour and Coding Workshop starting in February

Are you a 7th – 12th grade teacher interested in a Genius Hour or in introducing your students to coding? A Pathways Project funded by DESE is providing an opportunity to teachers in Central Missouri.

eMINTS will offer an innovative blended professional learning experience.  You may choose from one of two tracks: Genius Hour or Computational Thinking through Game Design.

Where:  Assessment Resource Center (ARC) –  2800 McGuire Blvd, Columbia Missouri 65201 (https://arc.missouri.edu/)

When: February 21^st and 22nd and 1 day in late March to be scheduled with participants.

Seats are limited so sign up today!

For additional information contact: chaffinc@emints.org