Implementation of Job Shadow Site:

How will you introduce this to the class?

Our first job shadow will be in November. During early October I will introduce the Academy juniors and seniors to the wiki. I will first go through the site with them using an LCD projector. I will go through the home page and then review the different areas of service for them and look at a few of the pages related to one or two areas of service. From there, I will have the students each at their own computer (juniors one day, seniors another) and have them go through the site to review the job shadows available (I will provide them a list of which companies are available and are going to be utilized this time around). After their review, I will have them give me their top four choices.

Once they have returned from the job shadows, I will again bring up the site on an LCD projector and model for them how to fill out a comment for the job shadow they visited. I will go over expectations for them on what types of things I expect them to write about (and not write about).

What do you have to do to get permission from the powers-that-be at your school?

I have an excellent principal who is very technologically savvy, and he is going to be excited for me to be introducing them to this new technology. Therefore, administratively, there will be no permissions needed. Additionally, my classroom houses the computer lab, so I have all of the technology readily available for whenever I choose to use, so I won’t need permission or to sign up for lab use, etc.