Guides for Teachers

• Projects by Department:         Semester 1            Semester 2

• Circle of Excellence Guides:      Task Period-1          Task Period-2          Task Period-3          Task Period-4      

 

Notes to Teachers:

• Trello: I began using Trello (free to use) during the pandemic and felt that the program integrated so well with the virtual office environment. All submissions of work from that point on were done through the Trello software. If you use other ways to turn in completed work (ie Canvas, Google Classroom, or physical submissions), just edit the “Evidence” submission requirements in the individual tasks.

• Timeline: These are titled Tasks, but you should not feel pressured to have this done by the end of any particular month. Work with your students at your own comfortable pace and if that happens later in the fall it is no big deal. This first series of tasks is for you and your students to use after they have been placed into their departments and working for the virtual company.

• Company Structure: I tended to have bigger classes so I created 7 different departments for my kids to work in and added tasks to try to keep everyone busy. If your classes are smaller than 20 students. Feel free to reduce the departments, combine departments, or eliminate the departments as you wish. You might want to look at my blog on Company Structure, to see why I did it the way I did it.

• Editing the documents:  Download your copy...It's yours, change it as you see fit. I created this for my students in our situation. Your situation is probably much different than mine, so adapt it to how you run your class. One thing to keep in mind is the total points for each department are the same, This is essential to keep grading the same for all students, across all departments. If you change the point totals, make sure that all departments add up to the same totals