This document discusses the benefits of incorporating real-world experiences and guest professionals into the classroom. It argues that these experiences accelerate learning, improve long-term retention, challenge students at higher levels, and help develop presentation skills. They also provide students with mentoring, career exposure, and potential job opportunities. While teachers may be hesitant due to concerns over quality or conflicting viewpoints, engaging professionals ultimately improves instruction and benefits students by connecting education to real applications in the workforce.

1. Making it R.E.A.L.
Real-world experiences
accelerate learning

2. Making Intersections
-Actual
-Simulated

3. Bloom’s Taxonomy

4. • Sir Francis Drake
• Your own story

5. Benefits to Student Learning
• Greater long-term retention of material learned
• Forces them to raise the bar above simply peer review
• Intrinsic Learning
• Increase in production quality and higher order concepts
• Maturity in presentation skills
• Challenges gifted and talented students
• Constructive criticism from someone in the professional
world
• Team oriented

7. • ADVISING/MENTORING
• REFERENCES
• EXPOSURE TO CAREER OPTIONS
• FUTURE CAREER CONNECTIONS
• COMPETITIONS, AWARDS and SCHOLARSHIPS
• HEAD START IN COLLEGE CREDITS, PROJECTS
& CRITIQUES

8. Historical Context
• Apprenticeships
– Began in Middle Ages with artists guilds needing help.
– Apprentices were 14 years of age or younger
– Michelangelo was apprenticed at the age of thirteen
(1449–1494) creating the renowned Pieta at age 24.
– When apprenticing youth from the past achieved the
status of craft workers, they became important members
of society
– Annually there are nearly one-half million registered
apprentices in training in American business today

9. School-to-work learning is concerned with
preparing students for the difficult transition
from high school to a 2-4 year higher
education program. Researchers and policy
analysts refer to school-to-work transitions as
ways to easing the passage from young adult
to wage earners.
-de Lone (1992)

12. I love to critique student work and give
feedback whenever I can. We both win and so
does the industry. The freshness of a new
perspective is priceless and it helps me to
become a better designer and learn more even
after 25 years in the business. -Mark Bird

13. If so many teachers believe real
world projects are great to do,
then why aren’t they doing
them more often?

14. Raising the Bar for Teachers
Why teachers may be afraid
• student work may be poor quality and embarrassing
• afraid guest may expose their incorrect teaching
• afraid guest may say things that are in conflict with
what you taught
• afraid guest will not lead well
• afraid students will treat guest poorly
• guest will not critique well enough or too harshly
• coinciding with curriculum
• cost involved
• afraid of taking time out of a professional’s work day

15. Quite frankly, I would not be where I am today
without the guidance, encouragement and
inspiration of many teachers, professors and industry
professionals. I try in every way I can to pay them
back by doing work that makes a difference and by
meeting/working with young people to pay that
legacy forward. Hopefully, in some small way, I can
empower other creative people, young and old, to do
the same.
-Bill Mc Kendry
Hanon-McKendry Advertising

16. Practical Benefits for Teachers
Why teachers should not be afraid
• learning from a professional will only improve your teaching
for next year
• freshness and a change of rhythm and pace is good for a
classroom
• getting students out of the classroom and into a real studio is
exciting to them
• good for a student to get a different perspective than your
own
• it is important for students to know that the world has
conflicting opinions on art
• great for students who don’t gel with you
• opportunities for art program exposure

17. Teachers need to see how business is a part of
education and not just education for
education’s sake… if the teachers believe in
how this vision works, and how it really does
tie in to what they are doing, it’s not an “add-
on” to their curriculum. Then it will continue
and teachers will ask businesses to come in
and speak in their classrooms or send their
students into work-based experiences.
-Chamber of Commerce NCY

18. • 74% of students with existing experience in a
work place, whether high school, college
internships, or short- term connections with
school-based projects receive job interviews
within that existing business.
• 55% of these students will be hired at or
above entry level positions within these
companies.
• 95% of colleges say they look at major-related
experiences when deciding on scholarships for
incoming freshman.

19. Industrial Design

21. Fashion Design

26. Architectural Design

29. Interior Design

32. This may work for Design but what about
all the other classes, like Drawing and
Painting or Sculpture?

33. Guest Artists

36. Competitions

37. PUBLIC ART SHOWS

41. Community Giving

42. Temporary and
Permanent Installations

44. Field Trips

45. DiDisplay Student Work