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The Senior Project is a graduation
requirement and a culminating demonstration of a student's achievement
of the state and and district learning goals, namely critical thinking,
reading comprehension, and effective communication. Seniors are
expected to demonstrate self-directed learning by selecting a topic
of genuine interest and managing time well. Please ask your student
about these tasks and forms and encourage them as they embark on
this final challenge of their high school year. The project components
include the following:
The Research: a synthesis of information designed to inform and
facilitate the project.
The
Project: 15 hours of learning experience, obtained outside the
school day but during the school year, reported in reflective
journals.
The Documentation: a portfolio of evidence of the student’s
learning, both in the Senior Project and throughout high school.
The
Presentation: an 8-10 minute speech illustrating learning over
time which is made to a board of judges.
If you would like to explore a career/internship as your senior
project, here are some guidelines:
- Consider that many careers may have issues of confidentiality,
safety or liability that may prohibit you from actively participating.
- Prior to beginning any internship or career exploration, make
sure that you will be able to actively participate.
- Observation must be very limited – 2 hours maximum.
- You must be actively involved in whatever career you are exploring
(i.e.: if you want to be an elementary teacher, you will need
to actually teach not just research the job and observe the
teacher).
- Think in terms of an internship rather than any type of job
shadow - which is specifically not allowed.
- Since your project is designed to be a learning stretch, are
you achieving that?
Questions? Contact Senior Project Coordinator
Karen Wilkerson.
Office Hours: Tuesday and Friday 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Mentors
As a component of the Senior Project, our students are required
to work with a mentor. If you are willing to be mentor click
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