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GRADE: 11                             LESSON: 14

 

THEME: PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR

 

 

LESSON GOALS:           

 

  • Review students’ academic goals and plans.
  • Explain the course registration process for next year.
  • Help students complete their forecasting packets

 

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:     

 

  • What courses do I need to reach my goals?
  • What should I do next year?

 

MATERIALS NEEDED:

 

  • Completed Four-year Plans
  • Course catalog, including graduation requirements
  • Course Registration Forms (Forecasting packets from counseling center)

 

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES:  

 

  1. Discuss students’ Four-year Plans. Have students retrieve and review their updated Four-year Plans. What goals have they outlined for senior year? How will the classes they’ve selected prepare them? How can they be most successful next year?

 

  1. Introduce the course registration process. Students’ Four-year Plans will guide the course registration process for next year. Review how the course registration process will work. Make sure students understand the advanced or “gatekeeper” courses your school offers and which ones they are eligible to register for as seniors. Discuss any off-campus opportunities.

 

  1. Begin the course registration process. Distribute forecasting packets. Ask students to complete their forms for 12th grade. Refer students who are still uncertain of their plans to your school’s Counseling Office. Make sure students take home forecasting forms home to get parent signatures and return to counseling center.

 

STUDENT PRODUCTS:        

 

  • Course Registration Form. Each student should complete a course registration form for 12th grade and return it to the counseling center. Parents need to sign these forms.