美国犹他州PCCAPS高中课程探析

In Collaboration with Businesses to Construct High School Curriculum: Based on the Study of PCCAPS Curriculum in Utah

PCCAPS是美国犹他州公园城市学区的一类兼具挑战性和学术性的高中课程,该课程最显著的特点是与企业建立合作关系,企业相关的专业人士作为指导老师,为学生提供参与现实企业项目和处理企业现实问题的机会和指导,进而使他们获得问题解决的真实经验、拓展创新创业思维、为大学和职业生涯做好准备以及提高他们的社区服务意识,以期对我国高中课程设计和创新性的实践途径提供借鉴和启示。

PCCAPS is a both challenging and academic high school curriculum in Park City District in Utah,USA.And its most significant feature is to establish collaborative relationship with businesses,and the related professionals in businesses as mentors,who offer students an access to participate in real world projects and opportunities to deal with real world problems in businesses,in order to empower them to experience problem solving,expand their innovative and entrepreneurial mindset and prepare them for their own college and career readiness as well as improve their community-service awareness with the purpose of providing some reference and enlightenment to our country’s high school curriculum design and innovative pathways in practice.