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Case: Volunteer Capstone Project Our school is looking to start a capstone project where students are required to complete volunteer hours each year that they are in school. Then their senior year they will complete some sort of paper about their experiences. These hours from each year and paper will be tied into their senior English/language arts class. I have so many reservations about this capstone project. The biggest one is how is a volunteer capstone project if we require them to do it? And how do we keep students from "cheating" their way through the hour requirements? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) My two children had to do a similar senior project at their high school. Basically,their junior year they were to come up with an idea and then plan it out with the help of a teacher mentor and a community member. The whole project had many written deadlines and an outline that was easy to follow. Then, when it was completed,they had to present their project to adult volunteers who rated them. It was a good experience and the kids learned a lot. I like it that your school is asking that the project be a volunteer effort. Ours was basically,choose anything you are interested in, and that made it difficult. Your school's project sounds more service oriented. It will be rocky the first year, but then you will understand more how to help facilitate the freshman to keep up with what they need to be documenting for their senior paper. |
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