New School Year Brings Changes to Senior Capstone
September 6, 2011
Filed under I. News
by Kelsey Duncan
The Partnership Program is one of the unique aspects of GSMST. The program starts in ninth grade with the Speaker Series and continues in tenth grade with the Job Shadow program. In eleventh grade, students participate in the Junior Fellowship Experience. The Partnership Program culminates in the Senior Capstone Experience.
This year new requirements have been set, new plans have been made, and new standards have been implemented. The SCE program has been significantly revamped for the class of 2012.
“The main difference is that the research paper component is now integrated into the Senior Language Arts curriculum,” says Ms. McAuliffe, the Internship Coordinator.
“The other major difference from last year is that the SCE class period is no longer during the school day. Faculty advisors have small groups of students and plan meetings with them during the second half of lunch or after school.”
These meetings are vital to students’ success. The faculty members are responsible for making sure their students are keeping up with the SCE workload.
Tyler Egg has already met with his faculty advisor, Dr. Slack. “I enjoy the one-on-one interaction with my advisor. It gives me more time to develop my project.”
Some students have continued their projects from their Junior Fellowship Experience.
Ms. McAuliffe says, “We are the only school that I know of where students start doing internships their junior year. The great thing about that is students can take what they learn in the JFE and apply it to the SCE. This allows for the SCE to be more in-depth.”
By the end of the SCE, each student will have met the “three P’s:” a proposal, a research paper, and a deliverable product. Each component will have something to do with the overall topic of the students’ project.
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