At 9th grade * View a series of power point lessons explaining the graduation project
---Homeroom, 2nd semester
* Explore various writing and speaking styles
---Resource/Support: teachers (Career and Technical Education), parents/family members, community
members, and student
At 10th grade * View a series of lessons to explore topics of interest
----Homeroom, 2nd semester
* Develop skills to retrieve information about topics of interest
* Refine skills on compiling a portfolio
* Identify GRADUATION TOPIC OF INTEREST (form provided for signatures at end of sophomore year)
----Classroom experiences that develop research, presentation, and public speaking skills
----Input from family members
----Models of written and verbal communication including external community partners
At 11th grade * Meet with advisor (homeroom teacher)
* Meet with academic advisor (English teacher)
* Meet with expert(s) in the field (student-selected in the community)
* Identify a research topic
* Understand expectations for each of the four components of the graduation project
* Outline a plan of action for completing the four components of the graduation project
* Evaluate, organize, and identify sections of the graduation project portfolio
* Refine writing and speaking skills
* Complete a 6-9 page RESEARCH PAPER in the 11th grade English class (research focus on a specific topic
from the area of interest identified in the 10th grade)
----Identify graduation project mentor (student-selected expert in the community)
----Meetings with mentor
----Mentor logs
----Public speaking opportunities
At 12th grade * Meet with academic advisor (English teacher)
* Outline the year's goals and expectations
* Define the graduation project topic
* Develop the PRODUCT (a tangible or intangible product related to the research paper...a minimum of 15
logged hours of work)
* Develop the PORTFOLIO (a record of the process and progress through all the steps of the graduation
project, including periodic reflections)
* Deliver the ORAL PRESENTATION (presented to a panel of community judges)
----Scheduled and organized by school coordinator
----Supporting forms to be provided
----Ongoing guidance from advisor, mentor, graduation project coordinator, and teachers
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Benchmarking Chart Grades 9-12
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3 comments:
Thanks for the helpful chart!
I think this is way too much being added on the already diffcult curriculum and just putting a lot more pressure on us students and making 10 times more kids want to drop out and end up not graduating.Nobody knows what is going on with this project. In fact I asked every one of my teachers what is the deal with this thing and how is it going to go, NOBODY knew and its just way too much. The way it is set up is really confusing too it should just be a one year thing. Not stretched out into a few steps every grade that just makes it WAAAAY more confusing. If its going to be in place, at least make it to where you deal with it when your a senior not a little here and there. Just my opinion, thanks.
I think that we haven't really talked thoroughly enough about the project and it hasn't been brought up enough with us,(the students), and that maybe ya'll have been informing us but that we need to be approached from another direction. I already have in mind what I want to do but, with my project I need to start on it like now or else it really won't do me any good and with my project I'll especially need the staffs involvement or it won't go through.But I'm not the type of student that actually goes to the counselors and such but I like to wait until the faculty tellsus you know like "come on, we're here to help with yuor ideas" , which I know is the lazy way out but in all reality that's what most students do.
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