WHAT is 20% TIME?
A component to the NHS Help Desk curriculum is the Individual Learning Endeavor, or the 20% time project. Inspired in part by Google’s 20% time project, as well as the pilot program at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the ILE allows Help Desk students to devote (20% (TUESDAY'S) of their time to a project that is “unrelated” to the Help Desk day to day goals and objectives.
ILE's vary student to student, however the common denominator is that all projects align with a student’s personal interests and passions. Students will choose one learning goal/project to study and implement over the course of an extended period of time - usually one semester or an entire school year. Many teachers encourage students to choose a service project. Whatever the project is, students learn about one thing all year.
Help Desk students will present to me and to their peers their SMART GOAL ILE's which require the following:
1. Specifics - the who, what, when, where, why and how of the ILE
2. Measurable- their plan for measuring progress and milestones towards achieving the goal
3. Attainable- analysis of how difficult the ILE will be to achieve
4. Realistic- an evaluation of the time frame, skills and resources needed and the student’s willingness to commit to the project.
5. Timely & Tangible- a specific start and end time and a description of the final product that will be presented in January(the week before SEMESTER FINALS)
There is a big difference between a learning goal and a performance goal.
Just say a student wanted to shave two minutes off her mile. She trained all semester - however, what was she doing during the 20-Time hour in my class? Nothing. Mostly bugging other students as they were working. She had created a perfomance goal, not a learning goal.
What should she be doing? She should prompted her to study/research how to take two minutes off her mile- a learning goal. Create a workout for the next week. Learn what kind of workout she should be creating. Evaluating what worked and what didn't from the previous week's workout. Examining the type of diet that would be ideal for her situation.
So What is your mission?
Ms. Scheffer at the Burlington Help Desk explains it with the use of PowToon and used the Mission Impossible template.She also created the Padlet wall to showcase some students ILE'S.
A component to the NHS Help Desk curriculum is the Individual Learning Endeavor, or the 20% time project. Inspired in part by Google’s 20% time project, as well as the pilot program at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the ILE allows Help Desk students to devote (20% (TUESDAY'S) of their time to a project that is “unrelated” to the Help Desk day to day goals and objectives.
ILE's vary student to student, however the common denominator is that all projects align with a student’s personal interests and passions. Students will choose one learning goal/project to study and implement over the course of an extended period of time - usually one semester or an entire school year. Many teachers encourage students to choose a service project. Whatever the project is, students learn about one thing all year.
Help Desk students will present to me and to their peers their SMART GOAL ILE's which require the following:
1. Specifics - the who, what, when, where, why and how of the ILE
2. Measurable- their plan for measuring progress and milestones towards achieving the goal
3. Attainable- analysis of how difficult the ILE will be to achieve
4. Realistic- an evaluation of the time frame, skills and resources needed and the student’s willingness to commit to the project.
5. Timely & Tangible- a specific start and end time and a description of the final product that will be presented in January(the week before SEMESTER FINALS)
There is a big difference between a learning goal and a performance goal.
Just say a student wanted to shave two minutes off her mile. She trained all semester - however, what was she doing during the 20-Time hour in my class? Nothing. Mostly bugging other students as they were working. She had created a perfomance goal, not a learning goal.
What should she be doing? She should prompted her to study/research how to take two minutes off her mile- a learning goal. Create a workout for the next week. Learn what kind of workout she should be creating. Evaluating what worked and what didn't from the previous week's workout. Examining the type of diet that would be ideal for her situation.
So What is your mission?
Ms. Scheffer at the Burlington Help Desk explains it with the use of PowToon and used the Mission Impossible template.She also created the Padlet wall to showcase some students ILE'S.
SOME IDEAS FOR 20 TIME. You do not have to choose any of these!!
1. Help a teacher get their GAFE credential.
2. Plan and carry out a school clean-up day 3. Build a timing booth for the school's track team 4. Create a movie about free things to do in the area to post to YouTube 5. Raise money for Northgate High school 6. Make and send care packages to the troops overseas 7. Build an APP 8. Learn how to Code in different languages (see the codecrawl tab). |
9. Build a Northgate Teacher's website.
10. Technologies that can be used in a subject specific classroom 11. Learn how to cook meals with and for your parents (choose one night a week). 12. Create a movie by writing a script, filming, and editing. 13. Build a tutorial website for Special Ed. 13. Create and print 3D objects for educational use in Science, Math etc |
The Process:
Green: Students choose a goal and backwards plan from the date of the final to the present.
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Yellow: 6 weeks into the project, students present their idea to the community. By announcing what they are doing to the public, it holds them more accountable.
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Brown: The end project, presentation which they reflect on the learning that happened throughout the project.
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Orange: Each week, at the end of the hour (every Tuesday) students reflect via blog, journal, etc on what they learned in the hour and what their next steps are for the following week.