Project CRITICAL Workshop 1 Agenda
August 24, 2020
8:30 a.m. Welcome/Introductions
Project CRITICAL Website and Contacts
8:45 a.m. Administrative
Requirements
·
Workshop
Attendance, future workshops discussion at end of day
·
W9 Forms
·
Completion of Products
·
Curriculum Restructuring Forms
(see 1 pm)
·
SCALES
database: Identification
of Talent Pool Students
·
End of Year Teacher Perceptions of
Student Technology Survey (May 2021 workshop)
·
End of Year Teacher Survey (May 2021
workshop)
9:00 a.m. The
Importance of Teaching Public Policy Skills
9:30 a.m. Group work (Breakout Rooms), modeling an
example through the PPA steps
Group
1: Mott Hall, FDA, H.S. for Law &
Public Service
Group
2: Reynolds West Side HS, HS for Media
& Communications
Group
3: New Design MS, PS/IS 149
Group
4: PS/IS 187, UAFL
Group
5: PS/MS 129
Step
#1: Defining the
Social Problem:
Step
#2: Gathering Evidence
of the Problem:
Step
#3: Identifying the
Causes of the Problem
10:45 a.m. Step
#4: Evaluating
Existing Public Policies
Step
#5: Developing
Public Policy Solutions
Step
#6: Selecting the
Best Public Policy Solution
12:00 p.m. LUNCH
12:30 p.m.
Review
of the PPA (Example:
Bird Strikes)
·
Find PPA problems: in the
news *
·
Plastic
Common problems when
developing a social problem
·
Activity:
Developing a Social Problem ans
12:45 p.m. PowerPoint
PowerPoint Examples
A PPA Presentation is a presentation that incorporates the steps from the PPA model.
1:45 p.m. Looking
ahead to tomorrow’s workshop
Think of a problem from your school/community/curriculum
that you would like to teach using the PPA steps.
2:00 p.m. Teachers create/define
a social problem from their school/curriculum/community
·
Curriculum Restructuring Form
·
Developing a Social
Problem for Presentation
2:15 p.m. Future
Workshops Survey
2:25 p.m. Evaluation
2:30 p.m. Adjourn