Project Management in High Schools (Polytechniques or Universities)

... how to disseminate the principles and domains of PMBOK, and other PMI standards

In fact, you might want to check out Project Management for Education, by Bernie Trilling and Walter Ginevri, published by PMIEF. It's two books in one: flip it on one side and you have the "Learning Guide for Project Managers"; flip it over and it's "Learning Guide for Educators".

Ok I understand, like Sergio recommended, take a deep dive into the PMI Educational Foundation (PMIEF) and liaise with your local chapter to conceptualize and plan a throughout and effective initiative.

Here is the link
.https://www.pmi.org/pmi-educational-foundation/about-us

Another option is a case study approach. Can be done with a tie-in to industry. Anywhere from constructing a bridge to a piece of software.

I think case studies do not work as well for a introductory level as they do for advanced learning. For advanced studies they are great, but if the students lack a foundational background to adequately evaluate the case study, the instructors simply lecture.

For newer or future practitioners, I would try to give them a bit of theory, and then some simple exercises to see what works and what doesn't. Then they have experiences to discuss case studies. Otherwise, I could lecture all day about risk management in residential construction projects, but if the student doesn't know which end of the hammer pounds the nail, most of it will be me talking to myself.

I guess I'm a bit of an elitist in that I see students pursuing a project management program with a pre-requisite level of education and/or experience. I don't see it as a high school certificate. The best you could hope for in a high school setting would be an entry level project administration position from which one can evolve to a PM position with experience and additional education.

Then again, if a person can get dressed in the morning you can plan and run a project. Lay out you clothes, put the underwear on before the pants, socks before the shoes and do a quick quality check in the dressing mirror on the way out. Your mother can be counted on for quality assurance. :-)

By the way, hammers are old technology - we now have power nailers.

I felt the same way until I had an unplanned job leading the training development for new enterprise-wide software. I was the engineering expert on new engineering software working along side the teaching experts. I knew the software, but nothing about being a teacher.

So much stuff that made perfect sense to me just didn't register with a lot of students. I had to learn a lot about effective classroom teaching to be successful, the learning progression, and it is really quite fascinating to see how it is done in a structured, projectized way (if done well).

Years later, I took a graduate level course covering case studies in PM and was paired with a young student while I had over 20 years experience. I got a lot out of it, but the other student just didn't have the background. They probably would have learned more creating a simple project plan than in depth discussions on projects they had never heard about.

As well meaning as you are as a teacher, if you go too far over the student's heads, they will gain nothing from it other than hating your teaching style. :-)

I respectfully disagree, Peter.

Just like we introduce other careers at the high school/secondary education level, we should introduce project management as a career option. We can do this by incorporating project management practices in the classroom or offering tracks for project management careers similar to other career tracks (e.g., culinary sciences, nursing, engineering).