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Programs > Center for IT Excellence > Job Shadow> Boeing Week 2004 |
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| Advancing IT Education and the Workforce
in Washington State |
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| Instructor Job Shadow Program |
| "Linking IT Educators with Washington State Businesses" |
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| 2004 a Week@Boeing |
| The 2003 version of a Week@Boeing was so successful we decided to repeat
it during the summer of 2004, incorporating lessons learned in 2003. Just as we were beginning to plan
for 2004, we heard that Boeing Wichita was implementing a job shadow program based on ours - exciting
news that validated our experience and spurred us on! So, in addition to enriching this year's experience
with lessons learned from last year, we borrowed a new element from the Wichita program and infused it
into ours. Expectations were set as follows: |
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| Boeing Host Expectations: |
- Provide WCIT participants with "on-the-job" experiences at Boeing.
- Include participants in normal work activities.
- Interaction on methods, techniques, approaches and tools required to complete tasks.
- Integrate knowledge gained from participants into work.
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| WCIT Educators Expectations: |
- Come with open minds.
- Produce deliverables within job assignment .
- Two-way knowledge transfer.
- Wrap-up report - individual reports/lessons learned - at closing session.
- Wrap-up report - within two weeks; more comprehensive - for WCIT web site.
- Take knowledge back to classroom via improved, skills infused curriculum.
- Complete follow-up report during Fall 2004.**
- How did you transfer lessons learned into meaningful lessons in the classroom?
- In what way did you contribute to improvement of the curriculum?
- How did interaction with students change or improve?
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| ** New from a Week@Boeing Wichita. |
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| This year, we increased the pool of potential hosts for WCIT educators
to include all Puget Sound Senior Boeing IT professionals. The main lesson learned in 2003 was to take
greater care in setting up educator-host matches. We accomplished this by discovering more about the
educators' instructional and interest areas well in advance of the match-making. Armed with this
information, we set about to make perfect matches for the 2004 a Week@Boeing - and if the post-session
evaluations we received are any indication, we succeeded. Check out the
final reports and evaluations. |
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