>>Otto: Notice how we're trying to keep the ruler off of the ink. Good deal.
>>Patrice: Because students are doing real authentic work, a light goes on
and they suddenly realize, "Wow, this is an actual career
that I'm learning skills that I could apply in the real world."
>>Otto: Yeah, that's a rough photo.
Okay, well, what would you do?
>>Otto: The vision at Maplewood Richmond Heights High School is school
is apprenticeship.
That's our motto that we try to implement
in as many classes as possible.
>>Sydney: It's about getting us ready for what's after high school.
For jobs, college. The school does that by giving us opportunities
to do internships, and we also do it within our classes.
>>Patrice: There are ways that every teacher can put those career options
into their course work.
>>Student: Yeah, I like that. Okay, good, that works!
>>Patrice: If you're trying to build a student that has the confidence to go
out and work in the real world, they have to be doing real world work.
So whenever the task can be something with real stakes, the better.
>>Otto: Running something like the print shop, they're beholding
to an actual client who is relying on them
to have something ready by a certain date.
>>Otto: All right, guys, take a look up at the board over here.
Let's see, Emily and Andrew, we need those IDs done by October 7th.
>>Jack: in that class it's like a job for us.
It gives me a chance to see what kind of career I would be getting
into if I went that direction.
>>Otto: We print posters, we create brochures,
anything that a teacher might need in the classroom.
And we print all student IDs.
They're learning what it's like to have an order waiting for you.
To have the materials you need to make that, and then go
and deliver it to the client.
It's that way from start to finish.
>>Jack: I learned Photoshop and InDesign and today I was working
on the literary magazine for our school.
>>Sara: We are interacting with teachers,
making sure that we communicate well.
"Is this okay? Would you like any adjustments to this?"
>>Otto: Part of their grade actually comes from teacher feedback.
"Did you contact the client?
Did you come up with a price?
Did you do any kind of quality check on it?"
If you're a graphic designer, you wouldn't survive
if you didn't do those steps.
>>Otto: Sweet, okay, soon as tint goes in then, you're ready to rock it.
>>Patrice: Okay, so let's get started with the run-through.
I think what we need to do is just go through the to-do list
and make sure all the logistics are in place.
>>Patrice: The class that I'm teaching now is about the four cornerstones.
Leadership, Stewardship, Scholarship and Citizenship.
>>Sydney: And the focus of it is to apply our four cornerstones
to service projects, so we're teaching middle schoolers
about the four cornerstones.
We wanted to get practice speaking and organizing things
and really getting a feel for teaching.
>>Sydney: So the group leader makes sure that you write
down the points that they get.
>>Sydney: Teachers they must work very hard to plan a lessons.
Because it took us a couple of weeks to be able to just plan that one day.
>>Kala: So the day that we taught the students,
I was at the Stewardship rotation, focusing on the environment.
I had like this pile of things that were either trash or recyclable.
>>Kala: So can you guys see if you can find the number on that one?
>>Kala: The experience of teaching, it helped me realize what I wanted to do
out of high school and one of my choices would be Environmental Teaching.
It was really fun to get to practice that.
>>Kala: Okay! Well, good job, you guys got all of them right!
>>Patrice: I think the benefit for students is it kind of goes back
to that old cliché where the student says,
"When am I ever going to use this?"
They get to see how the skills that they're learning in class apply
in a variety of different contexts.
>>Jack: If we didn't do this, I would probably be really lost
in what I wanted to do after school.
It really helps figure out what kind of work you want to get
into and what that looks like.
>>Otto: That prepares them for college or if they were going to go
into a trade, it shows them how the real world works.
>>Otto: Oop, there it goes! Perfect! We're in business!