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Field Trip At-A-Glance
When
Required Actions
Pre Flight Work
Students research the company and the main players via the company’s website. Sample questions include: ● Who founded the company and whe? ● What are it’s mission and vision? ● How many employees?
Pre Flight Work
Students submit their own questions to the developers: ● 1 programming-specific question (How do you do x?) ● 1 career-based question (What do you do when you’re at your wits end and really can’t find a solution?)
At least 2 days before visit
Pre Flight Work
Teacher curates the questions, picks the top 10 of each category, and send them to the development shop.
At least 1 day prior to visit
Take - Off Work
Students receive a Field Trip document and teachers review with them the following information: ● The schedule/agenda for the day’s trip ● Refresh of school’s guidelines for behavior on out of school trips ● Standard guidelines for behavior in a development shop → Dev shops are often open floor plans, so its important that students recognize that their presence is likely to affect the whole office ● The non-verbal method for getting students’ attention quickly (i.e. a raised hand, or finger over lips) that will be used ● Remind the students that they should take notes or pictures to capture the experience for a reflection after the trip. Some things to look for include: ○ Who are the people and what are they doing? ○ What does the work environment look like? ○ What does the culture of the dev shop “feel like?”
Day before or morning of trip (do NOT wait to do this until on the bus).
Flight Work
Teacher leads the trip and supports professionals from dev shop to engage students by the following actions: ● Share the schedule/agenda with the dev shop and establish a “keep it moving cue” to ensure the visit stays on time ● Consistently use the agreed upon non-verbal method for getting students’ attention quickly, especially at the start of visit ● Use instructional and classroom management expertise
At Dev Shop
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Time Frame 3 - 5 days before trip
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Field Trip At-A-Glance
● Encourage students to raise hands to ask questions and take notes or pictures
Landing Work
Students complete a reflection activity that compares what they thought a development shop would be like to what it actually is like. This can be done in a variety of ways: ● KWL → This could be used during the Pre-Flight Work ● Turn and Talk ● Comic/Cartoon → Compare “before” and “after” ● 3 Paragraph Essay ● other?
Bus ride home
Unpack
Students apply what they experienced at the development shop to their learning environment at school. Teachers can design lessons or activities that require students to do one or more of the following: ● Make recommendations for changes to the classroom decor ● Suggest classroom routine improvements or changes ● other?
Days or weeks following the trip
Sample Schedule
Time
Where are we?
Students are doing...
7AM - 8AM
Students meet
Take - Off Work
8AM - 9:30AM
Commute to development shop
Take - Off Work
9:30AM 11:30AM
Visit development shop: ● Here will be more detailed bullets about what actually happens at the shop ● Presentation from CEO and founder? ● Walkthrough and silent observation of office space with XXX? ● Ask a developer a question?
Flight Work
11:30PM 12PM
Bathroom Break Pack up and travel to lunch spot
N/A
12PM - 1PM
Lunch
N/A
1PM - 2:30PM
Commute back to school
Landing Work
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