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Manufacturing Bridge
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Ford Community College
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Dearborn, MI 48128-1495
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The Detroit Manufacturing Bridge
Technology as Servant
Humanities as Illuminator
Knowledge as Pathfinder
The Bridge Training the Trainer Workshop
The Bridge is
designed to be a unique educational experience. It is a manufacturing based occupational
education orientation program with links to local communities, higher education, and the
labor market. The program's goal is for participants to experience, practice and gain
facility of a broad range of skills defined by manufacturers and educators that represent
a foundation for manufacturing employment and future technology-based educational success.
Some of the elements that make this program unique are:
- the
instructors who teach are from a broad range of areas including occupational and academic
education areas as diverse as materials joining and the study of literature
- the program encourages students to learn cooperatively
- the content exposes students to many applied areas of
manufacturing skills
- the technical skills development focus, often found in job
training programs, is complemented by rigorous academic skills practice
- the students use of computers is intense throughout the
program
Program
elements like these lead not only to the need for different teaching strategies but also a
different role for teaching in the program. Teachers successful in Bridge instruction:
- -use theory as
a problem solving tool
- -facilitate hands-on projects more
- -share their personal approach to accomplishing complex
skills
- -perform demonstrations of high levels of mastery for
students to learn by
Some of these
teaching strategies sound similar to those used in on-the-job apprenticeship education.
This is intended as the goal of the program, like apprentice development, is to encourage
the development of skills towards mastery.
A One Day Bridge Project
Training the Trainer Workshop
8:30 AM to 3:30 PM
- Bridge modules, learning
styles and teaching strategies - 45 minutes
- Active learning and its
environment - 45 minutes
- The Bridge curriculum rationale-
industry needs & learning goals - 45minutes
Lunch (Discussion with past Bridge instructors)
- Classroom delivery - lectures,
demonstrations, group work - 45 minutes
- Maintaining conditions for
effective team teaching - 45 minutes
- Bridge resources for meeting
student problems - 45 minutes
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