Project Management for Education

The Bridge to 21st Century Learning

Walter Ginevri, Bernie Trilling

• Publisher: Project Management Institute
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781628254587
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Project Management
• Index: Business

This unique book is for two audiences! Read one way it is for educators; flip it over and read the other way it is for project managers! These days, everybody seems to be talking about "21st century skills" and how our students need new ways of learning if they hope to succeed in life. In recent years, changes in how work is done have rapidly shifted society's demands. What today's students need to succeed in their future work, family, and civic lives is dramatically different from what previous generations learned in school. But what are 21st century skills and how can educators bring them to students? The easiest answer is: by turning to the processes and principles that the field of project management has been utilizing for decades—skills such as critical and creative thinking, problem solving, effective communication, collaboration, self-motivation, persistence, and a lifelong passion for learning. These essential 21st century skills and mindsets, already part of daily life for project management professionals, are exactly what modern students need to learn in order to succeed. Project based learning (PBL), a set of engaging and powerful learning methods organized around motivating projects, is one of the most popular ways to bring the skills used by project management into students' educational experience, giving them amazing opportunities to develop the essential 21st century competencies they need. In Project Management for Education: The Bridge to 21st Century Learning, authors Bernie Trilling and Walter Ginevri provide a "two-in-one" guide for educators and project management professionals, demonstrating how the two fields can work together. By teaming up to enrich the experience of students, both educators and project management professionals can continue to develop their own skills and better meet the challenges they face in our ever-changing world.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR EDUCATION

THE BRIDGE TO 21^ST CENTURY LEARNING

Project Learning Guide for Educators

By Bernie Trilling and Walter Ginevri

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Table of Contents

Educator Foreword

Educator Preface

Educator Author Page

Educator Introduction

What Does Project Management Bring to Education?

The Five Ps of Project Management for Education

Educator Chapter 1: Bringing Project Management into Classrooms and Homes

Why Is Project Management So Important to Student Success?

What's in It for Students?

What's in It for Educators?

What's in It for Parents?

Educator Chapter 2: Project Management as Learning, Work, and Life Skills

How Can Learning Projects Help All Students Become More Successful?

The Blood Project

Introductory Guide to Managing Learning Projects

Project Cycle Terms Overview

Projects Defined

Everyday Life Projects

Learning Projects and 21^st Century Skills

Learning Project Phases

Project Learning Cycle Overview

Types of Learning Projects—Inquiry and Design

Types of Learning Projects—Debate and Expression

Educator Chapter 3: Project Based Learning (PBL) and Project Management (PM)

How Do PBL and PM Work Together?

Brief History of Project Based Learning (PBL)

Brief History of Project Management

PM + PBL = Future-Ready Students, Schools, and Societies

Educator Chapter 4: The Timeless Time Management Challenge

How Can We Help Students Tackle This Lifelong Motivational Challenge?

Time and the Speed of Thinking

Time Management = Motivation + Flow Management

Educator Chapter 5: Agile and Adaptive Learning Project Methods

How Can Adaptive Methods Build Engagement, Discovery, and Motivation?

Who and What “Drives” the Learning Project?

Learning Project Approaches—Prescriptive and Exploratory

Educator Chapter 6: Evaluating Projects—Products, Process, and Learning Progress

How Should Learning Project Outcomes Be Evaluated?

The Three-Legged Stool of Project Evaluation

Evaluating Product Results

Evaluating Project Processes

Evaluating Learning Progress

Educator Chapter 7: The Future of Project Management in Education

Project Management as a Bridge to 21^st Century Education

Project Bridges to 21^st Century Learning

A Learning Project Sampler

Primary Grades 3–5: Art Exhibit Project

Middle Grades 6–10: Olympic Stadium Design Project

Secondary Grades 9–12: Managing Science and Engineering Projects

Project Learning Resources

Key Learning Project Components Review

Project Management Pathways

21^st Century Skills Descriptions

Project Method Frameworks Comparisons

Educational Research on Project Learning

Recommended Resources and Guides

Life, Learning, and Professional Project Glossary

Educator Foreword

by Jim Snyder, PMI Founder and Lifetime Innovator

As one of the founders of the Project Management Institute (PMI) back in the 1960s, I have long held a strong opinion that the only way for project management to reach its full potential in driving solutions to world problems was to create a generation of project-oriented people to solve project-oriented problems. The only way to achieve that objective would be to fully integrate project management skills into our K–12 educational programs. That means we must first have project-oriented educators—and this might be just a small problem! After all, business/industry and education are two very different worlds.

Project management is not rocket science, although there might not have been any rocket science without it! Project management—all that “stuff” that goes into the successful planning, organizing, executing, and delivery of successful project-oriented work—has become part of our everyday lives, and we acquire these skills in a very different way from most of our other life skills.

Like it or not, we have evolved to the point where most of our productive work takes the form of a project. Life is a series of continuing, overlapping, and interrelated projects. “Projects” are the way we get things done. Unlike many other skills, managing these various projects is important to our professional, social, and daily lives. The way we manage projects is not so very different from one environment to another, but we may acquire the skills we need to manage projects from very different sources.

Many of us had our first introduction to the world of project management in our professional lives when we found ourselves responsible for a major project. For many, it was an unexpected career change! We needed to learn quickly how to handle ourselves in the ever-changing and ever more complex world of projects. Our learning and knowledge base grew from our experiences in engineering, heavy construction, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, the military, and the oil and gas industries. The industrial acceptance and implementation of project management principles and practices soon spread to an ever-widening group of businesses and industries. Today, project management is a part of almost everything we do.

From the original industrial/business base, PMI developed A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide), which set the language for engineering and business project management. And now, providers of project management training, education, and consulting are available, worldwide, to the engineering and business communities based on the language, processes, and practices that have developed from the early 1960s. This has become the language of professional project management.

But what about those other environments, such as education, our social lives, and our daily activities in which managing project-oriented work is just as important? A 2006 report by the Partnership for 21^st Century Skills found the U.S. workforce “ill-prepared for the demands of today's (and tomorrow's) workplace.” Lacking were both basic skills and applied skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, oral communications, teamwork, leadership, and others—all components of the project management process. Studies like this one and others focused educators’ attention on project based learning (PBL), developed by the Buck Institute for Education and many others. PBL is a teaching method that engages students in learning through participation in interdisciplinary projects. As the process and implementation of PBL cont...

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