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Project Management Life Skills
Materials:
Goal:
To develop templates, tools and programs that can be used by:
- students and educators to make the educational experience more
valuable.
- adults to enhance their quality of life and increase their value
to employers, civic groups, and as a volunteer.
Purpose:
To expose students and adults to the concepts of project management
and through this effort:
- demonstrate how project management concepts can be applied to
better manage everyday challenges.
- allow a student to experience the completion of a successful project
by using project management concepts and through this success, to
see the value of project management.
- teach project management concepts and theories to help students
and young adults become better prepared to enter the technological
world of today and tomorrow.
- provide an early introduction to the field of project management
and motivate some students to consider project management as a professional
career.
Focus:
Project Management tools based on the PMBOK® Guide that
will result in transferable tools and programs that can be used globally
by adults and/or by elementary, middle, and secondary school students.
Presently, eight activities are planned or underway that are related
to the PMI Educational Foundation’s Life-Skills Initiative.
- Development of an integrated curriculum for project-based learning
for elementary, middle, and high school students that is available
to society at large.
- Development of a Web site for elementary, middle, and high school
aged children and young adults that provides age accommodated knowledge
about project management, examples of successful project management
initiatives, and information on project management skills and topics.
- Development of a Web site for teachers, college students, educators,
parents who are home schooling their children, and educational organizations
in developing countries that presents the integrated curriculum, lesson
plans, and reference materials.
- Development of a template for project management practitioners
introducing the profession at elementary, middle, and high school
activities.
- Publication of a "Careers in Project Management" booklet.
- Awarding of grants to individuals and organizations to:
- generate new ideas and approaches in the teaching of project
management concepts and theories.
- promote the development of project based learning curriculum and
programs.
- Development of templates to assist students in using project management
concepts in their studies, co-curricular pursuits, and extra-curricular
activities.
- Development of a portfolio of educational initiatives based on
project management concepts being offered by educational organizations,
PMI® Components, PMI members, and others.
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