I conducted interviews with counselors, teachers, principals, and staff. With the interviews I found out the history of the problem and how staff, counselors and the administration tried to fix it. I also had interviews with students at my school and students outside of my school to get their perspective on the problem and what they think may be causing it. My partner and I researched the problem online and how it affects other schools. Our solution to the problem was to create powerpoints about careers and colleges to send to students. Although our problem is about colleges, we don’t want students to be confused on what to do in life after college. We would get freshmen and sophomores focused on careers so as juniors they can find a college to match their career. Students would use the information we give them to fill out a worksheet for both careers and colleges to save for later use. We recognized that some students may not be interested in doing this so we decided to schedule an assembly in February where current seniors and former alumni give their experiences, stories, and regrets while preparing and applying to college. We are hoping that this will encourage students to do the worksheets and dedicate more time to preparing for
I conducted interviews with counselors, teachers, principals, and staff. With the interviews I found out the history of the problem and how staff, counselors and the administration tried to fix it. I also had interviews with students at my school and students outside of my school to get their perspective on the problem and what they think may be causing it. My partner and I researched the problem online and how it affects other schools. Our solution to the problem was to create powerpoints about careers and colleges to send to students. Although our problem is about colleges, we don’t want students to be confused on what to do in life after college. We would get freshmen and sophomores focused on careers so as juniors they can find a college to match their career. Students would use the information we give them to fill out a worksheet for both careers and colleges to save for later use. We recognized that some students may not be interested in doing this so we decided to schedule an assembly in February where current seniors and former alumni give their experiences, stories, and regrets while preparing and applying to college. We are hoping that this will encourage students to do the worksheets and dedicate more time to preparing for