⏰ Do Now — Start Here
What is one specific thing you've done outside this room this semester that you didn't expect design class to prepare you for?
Two Tracks, Same Room
Some of you are heading out to a real internship or college class several periods a week; some of you are still finishing program requirements right here. Both are legitimate paths to the same goal. On check-in days, off-site students document and reflect on outside learning while in-room students keep running real studio jobs -- ask your teacher which track applies to you if you're not sure.
🎯 Today's Big Question
- How do we connect what we're learning outside this room back to the design skills we've built in it?
📈 By the End of Today, You Will Be Able To
- Students on the internship/college track document specific skills or projects from their outside placement.
- Students on the studio track complete a real client-work sprint during the same period.
- All students connect outside or in-room learning back to at least one specific career from the Careers hub.
🧰 What You'll Need
- Internship/college notes or materials (off-site track)
- An assigned real studio request (in-room track)
📋 Your Plan for Today
Day 1: Document or Produce
- Off-site track: write a structured reflection connecting outside work to specific design/CTE skills (40 min). In-room track: work an assigned real studio job (40 min).
Day 2: Share
- Both tracks briefly share with the class what they worked on this check-in and one thing they learned (30 min).
- Log entry added to portfolio (10 min).
📚 Key Words
- Transferable Skill
- A skill learned in one setting (an internship, a college class) that applies directly to another (this program, a future job).
- Documentation
- A written or visual record of real learning or work, specific enough that someone else could understand what you actually did.
✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include
Reflection or job work checked for a specific, accurate connection to real design/career skills, not a vague summary.
Exit Ticket: What career from the hub does this connect to most directly, and why?
📊 Before You Leave
Quick, anonymous class check-in -- takes less than a minute.
🔗 Want to Learn More?
- No extra links for this lesson.
🚀 The Extra Mile
Cross-Class Connection: This directly IS the outside internship or college class, whatever subject that happens to be.
Career Connection: Work-based learning is literally how many students enter the careers on this hub in the first place.
Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:
- Write a LinkedIn-style profile update summarizing the outside experience, even if just for personal use. Start here: list three specific things you did (not just "learned Photoshop") before writing a single summary sentence.
- Design a one-page "what I learned outside school" infographic for your portfolio. Start here: pick the single most surprising thing about working outside school and build the infographic's headline around that.