Step One: Nominations (Early February) TEACHERS ONLY
- Nomination forms will be released to teachers in mid January (nominations only put some students on our radar if a student is not familiar with PALS)
- Anyone can nominate students: Teachers, Administrators, Counselors, or Students may nominate potential candidates (including nominating themselves).
- Students will be notified of nomination and can attend an application meeting prior to the evaluation process.
Numerous announcements will be made via email and twitter to remind students of the ongoing process.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE NOMINATED TO ATTEND AN APPLICATION MEETING.
Step Two: Application
-Applications meetings are in video format.
-Turn in application by deadline.
Failure to submit the application as designed by the instructions will result in disqualification from the process.
Step Three: Evaluations (Mid March)
This step is where you will need to begin to ask your teachers to evaluate you.
- Each student will be listed on an evaluation form and forwarded to all teachers and administrators.
- Staff will evaluate students they are currently teaching or have taught within the one school year.
- Students will be scored based on 5 categories. Categories: (trust, respect, honesty,attendance, leadership)
- Students must have a minimum of 5 teacher evaluations to be eligible.
-It is the students responsibility to ensure they have met all requirements. You will need to ensure that you have met all requirements for the process. You will need to be proactive!
Step 4 Notification
Based on your teacher evaluations you will be notified via your LTISD.NET email account if you have been invited to interview and with instructions on how to schedule your interview.
Step 5 Interview Workshop
There will be an interview workshop in J102 hosted by Debate Coach Ms. Marquess.
This meeting will help you with basic interview skills such as.
Body language
Questions
Addressing all parts of the question.
Professionalism
Workshops will take place on April 1st, 3rd, and 4th at 415pm in J102
Step 6 Interviews
Applicants will be invited to partake in an interview on April 15/16 for PAL II and 18/19 for PAL III
These are professional interviews. IT IS HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND THE INTERVIEW WORKSHOP.
Each Interview will be about 10 minuets and students will be asked between 8-10 questions regarding but not limited to
Character
Integrity
Compassion
Kindness
Leadership
Responsibility
Punctuality
Step 7 Announcement
Class announcements will be made before STAAR & AP Testing are completed in Mid May. All interviewees will be notified via email.
Alternate emails will be sent to all students who did not make the first cut.