- IF YOU SEE "SEMESTER COURSE" NEXT TO A COURSE'S NAME, IT IS A HALF-YEAR (SEMESTER-LONG) COURSE. IT WILL BE PAIRED WITH ANOTHER SEMESTER-LONG COURSE. ANY COURSE THAT DOES NOT HAVE THE "SEMESTER COURSE" VERBIAGE NEXT TO IT IS A "YEARLONG" COURSE.
This is offered to Juniors and Seniors who are Gifted-Identified, High Achieving or Approved by Ms. Wren.
This is an elective and is not given the extra GPA weighting.
Sections will likely be offered 4A and/or 4B. (If we have enough for 2 sections)
Mentorship meets weekly in the 1st Semester.
Internships are 40-60 hours from mid-January through Spring Break and occur during our weekly class time.
The internship opportunity is an excellent (and unique) addition to your college applications and resume. It also develops skills you'll use as a professional in your field.
Internship Placements are determined based on interest and availability. If you already have a connection and opportunity, you can use that for this program. If not, we have partnerships that we utilize to find the best fit for each student in the program.
How It Works:
The fall semester is a Mentorship where we focus on career interests, professional resources development (Linked In, Resume, Cover Letters), sharpen interview skills and complete a goal setting book study. The spring semester includes an internship opportunity with a professional in the community. Students work with a professional mentor in their field of choice for 40-60 hours (Jan-April). The course culminates with a presentation of learning from that experience.
Gifted Mentorships are academic electives used in local systems when the high school's regular course offerings are insufficient to meet the needs of the most academically able and most highly motivated students. School system employees assist individual gifted students in securing mentors who are capable of guiding the students through a rigorous course of study. The learning objectives of the mentorship are developed jointly by the student, the mentor, gifted program personnel, department faculty at the high school, and central office curriculum staff. The mentorship experience must be designed to extend academic knowledge and skills in an area of interest in ways that are advanced well beyond the objectives typically taught at the high school level. An individual student contract is reviewed and approved (if acceptable) by a district wide committee. The student contract must include specific learning goals and objectives, a plan for achieving the objectives, a proposal for a final project or product, a plan for professional presentation of the product, and the criteria by which the product will be evaluated. A school system employee with the gifted education endorsement supervises students participating in Gifted Mentorship.
Gifted Internships are academic electives used in local systems when the high school's regular course offerings are insufficient to meet the needs of the most academically able and most highly motivated students. School system employees assist individual gifted students in securing positions in a professional workplace where they can pursue advanced academic knowledge and skills in areas of interest. The learning objectives of the internship are developed jointly by the student, gifted program personnel, department faculty at the high school, and central office curriculum staff. A school system employee with the gifted education endorsement supervises students participating in a Gifted Internship course; an individual in the workplace must also agree to communicate with the student and his/her faculty advisor regarding the student's performance. An individual student contract is reviewed and approved (if acceptable) by a district wide committee. The student contract must include specific learning goals and objectives, a plan for achieving the objectives, a proposal for a final project or product, a plan for professional presentation of the product, and the criteria by which the product will be evaluated.