Classroom Innovations

Creating an individualized classroom utilizing blended learning's station rotation model will positively impact Construction Trades students. Closing the employment gap through students who choose what they want to do.

What I am proposing here is to pilot the use of a blended model to aid in the individual directed education; to create job ready workers in chosen areas.

· Students will gain exposure in all areas in construction including safety early in the schoolyear (September-December)

· Students will direct their own education through the middle of the schoolyear using the blended model (January-March)

· Advisory partners will help to identify important research/learning for each specialty category.

· Advisory partners will aid in some hands-on or virtual opportunities as the middle season ends.

· Students will come back together to conclude the schoolyear (March-May) Focus in the conclusion time is representative of trades coming together to complete a project.

· Post schoolyear, the students will be job ready for their chosen profession within the trades.

I am excited to implement new ideas into an already solid learning community. The base of all successful endeavors is the relationship. Once the relationship is formed based off from trust & accountability then the community will move forward and embrace change as an opportunity not an obstacle. We will be implementing a blended model with some individualized paths for students to choose. We will continue to improve upon our growth mindset using models developed in this class. Through literature reviews, I have examined processes and am excited about the station rotation model and its potential to revolutionize education as we know it at the CTC!I look forward to these transformations as we navigate through the process!