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Originally Posted by mastachyra
Allison, is this a class given in school or after school? How often do you meet? I love how extensive this is. My team has a hard time covering even a tenth of this material.
Thanks so much for the resources!
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It's not a class at the moment, but that's a work in progress. The building admins, district admins, and board of education are helping us navigate the financial, legal, and administrative aspects, and in the meantime the important part (student learning) is still happening. I see some of kids during the day as they are allowed to be in the shop during their study hour, but it's informal.
Team meetings are twice weekly for four hours each night for preseason. At the moment schedule is a little erratic as we have full team on Wednesday, 10th-12th graders only on Friday, and the 9th graders split between Monday and Tuesday for their second day each week. We started the preseason by having the students work in three groups of five to prepare a robot for the Bot Bash offseason, so we didn't start doing lesson work until mid-October. At the moment Monday and Tuesday (9th grade nights) are pretty heavy on lessons, Wednesday is about 25% lessons/75% projects, and Friday is 100% projects. I'm currently torn between keeping the 9th graders split through December so that they and the vets can each get more individual attention, or merging the entire group into the same two days to refine team cohesion. That decision is what will affect how much lesson progress we make before build season. At the very least I'm hoping to get everybody to the level of conscious incompetence, where they know what they don't know, know their limits, and know when and how to ask for guidance in season.