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1. Strategy: Graduation Game
Application: Carpentry

Educator: Rodger Richerson, Faculty, Carpentry, San Joaquin Delta College, CA

Implementation: Most of my students need to learn self-management skills in their personal lives and career. I use the Graduation Game to reinforce how important it is to set a goal and take many short tosses to reach it. Once we have played the game, I guide students to see how goal setting and 3-foot tosses are the keys to building a building of any size. What they come to realize is that, by completing each part of a building one at a time--starting with the foundation, then the floor system, framing, roof framing, exterior siding, plumbing, electrical, and interior finishing--in small steps and in the right order, what appears to be a huge task is not that difficult after all.