12th Grade — Phase 2, Unit S2: Real Client Work: Client Approval & Revision Loop

🗓️ Before Class: Teacher Prep

Gather/set out: Draft of the live job, Feedback log (shared Doc).
Pull up today's slide deck (see 🖥️ Slide Deck below) so it's ready to project.
Heads-up -- This is a real client, not a hypothetical one: Treat every request the same way a professional studio would treat a paying client: confirm the brief, communicate proactively, and get sign-off before production. The staff member's satisfaction is part of the grade.

🖥️ Slide Deck (project or share with students)

Short, on-the-board pacing slides for today's Do Now, agenda, vocabulary, and exit ticket -- the full detail lives in the handout above, not here.

Day 1

Open / download this slide PDF

Day 2

Open / download this slide PDF

🧑‍🏫 Substitute Teacher Guide

A scripted, step-by-step runsheet for today's class -- hand this to anyone covering the room who doesn't know the daily routine.

Day 1: 📋 Open Substitute Guide
Day 2: 📋 Open Substitute Guide

This is a real client, not a hypothetical one

Treat every request the same way a professional studio would treat a paying client: confirm the brief, communicate proactively, and get sign-off before production. The staff member's satisfaction is part of the grade.

🎯 Essential Question

How do we present a draft to a real staff client and manage their feedback professionally?

📈 Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson (2 Days), students will be able to:

Present a draft to the requesting staff member clearly and professionally.
Record specific, actionable feedback rather than vague impressions.
Revise the work based on that feedback and obtain final sign-off before production.

📐 Standards Alignment

CDOS (Career Development & Occupational Studies)

CDOS 2 — Integrated Learning -- students will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in the workplace and other settings.
CDOS 3a — Universal Foundation Skills -- basic literacy, communication, and problem-solving skills required for a career.
CDOS 3b — Career Majors -- knowledge and skills required for success within a specific career pathway (here, Digital Design).

Industry Standards (CCTC)

AR-TEL 3-1 — Solve customer problems using information related to customer needs, and select the service or product that meets them.

📚 Key Vocabulary

Sign-Off: A client's explicit approval that a design is finished and ready for production.
Revision Round: One complete cycle of presenting a draft, collecting feedback, and making changes.

🧰 Materials & Tools

Draft of the live job
Feedback log (shared Doc)

🧠 Do Now (Warm-Up)

How would you professionally respond if a staff client said, "I don't like it, make it better" with no other details?

📁 Portfolio Update — Once a Week

Once a week, add your best finished or in-progress yearbook (or, later, studio) work to your portfolio with a 1-2 sentence caption -- and once you're in the Design Studio phase, a photo of the piece in its real, installed location if possible. This is the same evidence trail you'll use for Archive & Portfolio and any PBAT/portfolio review.

✍️ Example description for your Google Sites portfolio (fill in YOUR blanks -- don't just copy this):

For this piece, I made ______________ (name what you made) for “Client Approval & Revision Loop.” This project asked: “How do we present a draft to a real staff client and manage their feedback professionally?” I used Sign-Off by ______________ (explain how you used it in THIS piece). The hardest part was ______________, and I solved it by ______________. I'm proud of ______________ because ______________.

📋 Main Workshop / Lesson Sequence

This lesson spans 2 Days. Suggested pacing:

Day	Focus	Plan
Day 1	Present & Log Feedback	Do Now (5 min): how would you professionally respond to vague feedback? Mini-lesson (8 min): how to present a draft and log feedback professionally -- this is the same "I notice / I wonder" habit built back in 9th/10th grade critique and rehearsed all through Grade 11's client projects, now running for real. Independent/team work (27 min): present the draft to the client (in person or via a shared link/email) and log their feedback specifically and completely. Debrief (5 min).
Day 2	Revise & Sign-Off	Do Now (5 min): what's one piece of feedback you're addressing today? Independent/team work (35 min): revise based on the logged feedback -- a real client asking for changes to a first draft isn't a sign anything went wrong; it's the job. Confirm sign-off (5 min): get final sign-off from the client before moving to production.

✅ Assessment & Exit Ticket

Feedback log checked for specific, actionable notes; final version checked against explicit client sign-off.

Exit Ticket: What is one piece of client feedback you got, and exactly what you changed because of it?

📊 Pull up the anonymous Class Check-In for students to fill out before they go.

🧩 Differentiation & Accommodations

English Language Learners: model every step live, then check in one-on-one; provide translated materials and vocabulary support as needed. Students with IEPs: apply the accommodations and modifications listed in each student's plan (examples include extended time, graphic organizers, speech-to-text tools, chunked instructions, and visual schedules). Students with attention-related needs: break tasks into short, checklist-driven steps and provide brief movement or focus breaks. Students ready for a challenge: take on a leadership role critiquing peers' work, extend the project with a second iteration, or research how today's skill is used professionally in the field.

🔗 Resources & References

None beyond this lesson's materials.