Senior Projects Initiative
Senior
Projects Initiative
The School District of Philadelphia is ramping up the quality and
academic rigor associated with the "Senior Project" and PHENND is
trying to match each participating school with a university
partner. These partners will provide project mentors and other
resources to help the schools and students succeed.
Schools participating in this year's
pilot phase and their partners are:
| Fels High
School |
no higher ed partner
as of this date
|
| Kensington High
School for Business
|
Temple University
|
| Kensington High
School for Culinary Arts |
Temple University
|
| Olney High School |
Cabrini College
|
| Parkway Northwest |
no higher ed partner
as of this date
|
| Parkway West |
University of
Pennsylvania
|
| Roxborough High
School |
Chestnut Hill College
|
| Simon Gratz High
School |
no higher ed partner
as of this date |
| South Philadelphia
High School |
Eastern University
in the City
|
| Strawberry Mansion
High School |
no higher ed partner
as of this date |
The
Senior Project
The new, more academically-rigorous senior project is comprised of four
key parts:
- Research Paper (typically 8-10 pages)
- Fieldwork (15 hours of experience related to the
research topic, possibly service oriented)
- Portfolio
- Oral Presentation (before a panel of judges at least
one of which is not from the school)
College Student Role
Within each partnership, college
students play the role of "academic coach." They assist high
school seniors with various aspects of the senior project in small
groups, one-on-one, or by facilitating workshops for whole
classrooms.
Train-the-Trainer Workshops
A series of "train-the-trainer" workshops were developed by PHENND and
a team of student interns during the summer of 2007 which cover all
aspects of the senior project from preliminary research to oral
presentations. PDFs of each workshop, in the order they were
intended to be used, are below. However, this does not mean that
these workshops must be used in a particular order or even used in
their entirety. They are simply a set of resources that most of
our college and high school partners have found useful.
For more information about this initiative, please contact
Hillary Aisenstein
or Bradley Leposa.
|