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Why do we do Senior Exhibition?
Why do we do Senior Exhibition?
Giving You Ownership Over Your Learning
Giving You Ownership Over Your Learning
While self-directed learning and student choice are features of our school curriculum throughout your four years at Oceana, Senior Exhibition is a time when you truly get to take ownership of your learning. With help from teachers, you choose your topic and your Essential Question. You direct a major component of your senior year curriculum, and at the end of the project you share your learning, and your informed opinion, on a public platform. This is your project, and your voice is central.
Throughout your time at Oceana, you work hard to develop many skills and learn about a variety of different topics and ideas. Senior Exhibition is the culminating piece of this learning, putting your skills into action around a topic you care deeply about.
Senior Exhibition Day is a celebration of your accomplishments with Senior Exhibition and at Oceana more broadly. In asking you to present your learning publicly to students, staff, family, and community members, we are asking you to contribute your learning to a wider audience, because we know that you are capable of teaching us and that your voice is critical to our community. Senior Exhibition Day is a public celebration of your perseverance, your skill, your intelligence, and your contributions to our school community.
Celebrating Your Learning
Celebrating Your Learning
Preparing You for Your Future
Preparing You for Your Future
Whether you're planning to go to college, trade school, into the work force, or anything else, you're going to need to use critical thinking and communication skills. Senior Exhibition helps you practice those skills at a high level, all with the support of your teachers.
Besides the more academic skills involved, Senior Exhibition helps you to be active and engaged members of your community. The project asks you to look at major issues that impact people near to you and far, and helps you to think deeply about the issues that are important to them. Meaningful civic engagement relies on each of us being critical consumers of information, and Senior Exhibition provides supported practice in building skills around research, bias, and source credibility.
What do students learn through Senior Exhibition?
What do students learn through Senior Exhibition?
...about themselves as learners:
...about themselves as learners:
"I have learned that I am a great public speaker. I have the confidence and am able to speak and interact to a crowd with minimal shyness. I love speaking to a crowd."
-AA, class of 2017"If I want to do well I can I just need to believe in myself and put in the work."
-MC, class of 2017"If I want to do well I can I just need to believe in myself and put in the work."
"The most notable change I saw in my own skills were my writing skills. With the constant feedback I was receiving from my Humanities teacher and motivation to continuously revise my paper, I saw significant improvements in my writing skills, and I am already noticing writing skill improvements across all forms of writing assignments I work on. Presenting is usually a struggle for me, and this project was no exception for that. However, I found myself more directed when organizing my presentation and able to easily organize my presentation so it made sense logically."
-DA, class of 2017"Through this project, I improved my writing organization, as well as my ability to create simple visual aids. Additionally, this project helped me learn that effective time-management is key to success. This project also made me realize that I often stress out for nothing."
-ME, class of 2017"If I want to succeed with a project or goal, I have to set a specific schedule and due date for myself. I found that I work better when I set personal deadlines and due dates for assignments than to cram it all together last minute (procrastination)."
-SC, class of 2017"Through the Senior Exhibition process, I was able to improve on my writing since I am a very mediocre writer. Using ethos, pathos, and logos increased the quality of my work by a lot."
- LP, class of 2017"I learned a lot about the economy, I mean like a lot. I used to not be interested in economics but after this project I developed a love for economics and it is something I would like to pursue in college." - JC, class of 2017
"I need to get over my fears about emailing people I don’t know. Interviews were the hardest part of this project for me, because writing to strangers is terrifying.
But effective communication is a skill I will need all my life, so I should start working on it now."
But effective communication is a skill I will need all my life, so I should start working on it now."
-class of 2016
"As a person, I tend to have a bias towards the people who are struggling the most in all situations. Considering my past events, I understand what it is like to live with limitations due to race and economic background. Basically, I am more understanding of everyone’s position in the world, whether it is race, gender, economic background, all of it."
-NA, class of 2017"I learned that everyone faces challenges and setbacks when trying to achieve a goal, but you just have to persevere and and keep working with persistence and diligence."
-AD, class of 2017"I learned that everyone faces challenges and setbacks when trying to achieve a goal, but you just have to persevere and and keep working with persistence and diligence."
"I definitely improved on my ability to analyze evidence. I knew how to analyze before but I was missing the so what factor in most of my paper. I was analyzing the fact but I wasn’t tying it back to my EQ. By the end of my paper I actually was able to and managed to get my analysis from a RV to a 2 on the rubric."
-KS, class of 2017"I am capable to do the work if I put effort into what I am doing. Another thing I’ve learned about myself is, I will get overwhelmed about how much work I have to do but I will complete it at the end of the day. I have improved on working hard and being able to do things I never wanted to do. For example is on Senior Exhibition Day, I was nervous but I knew that all the hard work I’ve done is coming to an end. With that being said I never thought I would be able to present in front of over 25 people in a classroom for 20 minutes, but I did.
I am proud to say that I’ve learned a lot and proud of who I’ve become."
I am proud to say that I’ve learned a lot and proud of who I’ve become."
-SL, class of 2017
...about their topics:
...about their topics:
...about the pay gap in women’s soccer
"For ever $1 a male soccer a female soccer makes about 44 cents. The U.S. Soccer Federation needs to stop promoting the gender stereotype that men are just better than women. They need to do what’s right and pay the players equally."
...about the incarceration of the mentally ill
"More than half of the prisoners in the United State’s prisons and jails have displayed at least one symptom of mental illness. Despite treatment and services provided by correctional facilities and prisons and jails, the needs of the mentally ill are inadequately met. In fact, because of the conditions of prisons and jails, the mental states of the mentally ill are becoming worse. This explains why more than half of mentally ill convicts fall victim to relapse."
...about mass incarceration
"It’s actually a huge problem. I had no idea what a mess our prison system is. It’s unnecessary, expensive, racially discriminatory, and unethical to have such long sentences be used so frequently and casually. Most people subject to mandatory minimums are non-violent drug criminals and deserve treatment, not a life sentence."
...about the death penalty
"The United States is the only first-world nation that uses the death penalty. We execute more people than 95% of all the countries in the world. However, the true problem with the death penalty primarily lies with the questionable methods that the United States is using for executions."
...about reparations for African Americans
"I learned that it’s a very sensitive topic to talk about since it involves race. But sensitive topics should not go unheard, that’s why I chose this EQ. I believe institutional problems should be targeted with institutional solutions, and the problem of racism and the aftermath of slavery should be addressed once and for all by the U.S. government."
...about the housing crisis
"This problem is much bigger than just expensive rents and evictions, and it impact can ultimately change the city. This is not just their issue, it is ours and we as people have to help, along with the state government which hasn't done enough."
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