DAILY DIFFERENTIATED DESIGN
General Concept and Brief History:
The weekly design opportunity is based on Google and other innovative companies that allow 1 day a week of project/design freedom. Employees[WC students] can work on projects that they are passionate about and can choose others in the company[Architecture & Engineering class] to team up with them. 20% of the everyday work week is given to the employees [students] to customize the work they do to suit the interests of the workers and still get paid [graded] for a full week of work. The other 80% of days are still structured like a traditional company[school projects] where the management[teacher] determines the workload and projects. See bottom of this page for detailed history and reasoning for this best practiced project. Our best & award winning designs here are a result of this Project.
The weekly design opportunity is based on Google and other innovative companies that allow 1 day a week of project/design freedom. Employees[WC students] can work on projects that they are passionate about and can choose others in the company[Architecture & Engineering class] to team up with them. 20% of the everyday work week is given to the employees [students] to customize the work they do to suit the interests of the workers and still get paid [graded] for a full week of work. The other 80% of days are still structured like a traditional company[school projects] where the management[teacher] determines the workload and projects. See bottom of this page for detailed history and reasoning for this best practiced project. Our best & award winning designs here are a result of this Project.
GUIDELINES
Choose a relevant & individually customized project that relates to the course of study you are in.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR REAL WORLD PROJECTS
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2018 - Current Projects in the Design Lab
See list below for examples of current projects and projects from prior years:
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History - excerpt from Professional Development book club
In addition to this very inspirational concept to lead/train innovators for the future. Texas Architectural & Engineering TEKS requires design students to develop, plan, manage, budget time, resources, and schedules for self-directed projects. This project management approach that was inspired by the following has produced a long list of award winning and best works that have thrived in this opportunity for student autonomy and customized education. Students that are at-risk and do not function well in a traditional highly structured classroom setting have come in after school to continue working on these projects to complete the projects on-time. Results over directed tasks become the driving force for students with artistic and design passions.