Senior Exit Interviews:
Welcome to the Exit Interview page, which contains the documents needed for you to plan for and deliver your Exit Interview.
Description:
The Senior Exit Interview is a formal moment to look back on your time in school. It's a chance to reflect on your growth, showcase your strengths, and celebrate your high school journey. At your Exit interview you will present artifacts which serve as evidence of your growth.
Part 1: Student Presentation - 5 minutes
First, you will present. You will share about how you know that you are ready to live and learn more independently, with artifacts to support. To prepare, you will write an argumentative, reflective article and bring printed copies of it with you.
Presentations will be in a group, where 4 students , in a circle, will take turns during a 1 hour period. Each will bring at least 1 adult to attend. Guests and students are expected to attend for the full period so that everyone has a diverse panel.
Part 2: Discussion - 7 minutes
Following each presentation, there will be about 5 minutes of active discussion focused on the student who presented. All students are expected to be active participants in these discussions. Examples of questions for the discussion may be:
1. How convincing is the evidence presented that this person is ready?
2. What else might this person consider as evidence of their growth?
3. What have we learned about this person?
Part 3: Closing - 2 minutes
During the discussion, the student who presented will listen and take notes. To close their presentation and the discussion, they will reflect on the discussion, summarize and thank the group.
Part 1: Student Presentation - 5 minutes
First, you will present. You will share about how you know that you are ready to live and learn more independently, with artifacts to support. To prepare, you will write an argumentative, reflective article and bring printed copies of it with you.
Presentations will be in a group, where 4 students , in a circle, will take turns during a 1 hour period. Each will bring at least 1 adult to attend. Guests and students are expected to attend for the full period so that everyone has a diverse panel.
Part 2: Discussion - 7 minutes
Following each presentation, there will be about 5 minutes of active discussion focused on the student who presented. All students are expected to be active participants in these discussions. Examples of questions for the discussion may be:
1. How convincing is the evidence presented that this person is ready?
2. What else might this person consider as evidence of their growth?
3. What have we learned about this person?
Part 3: Closing - 2 minutes
During the discussion, the student who presented will listen and take notes. To close their presentation and the discussion, they will reflect on the discussion, summarize and thank the group.
Guidelines for Writing your Exit Interview Reflection
Before your exit interview you must write and print a 1 page reflective article that makes an argument about your readiness to live and learn more independently. The purpose of this reflection is to prepare you for your exit interview. By making a claim about your ability to live and learn more independently and supporting it with evidence you will collect and organize everything needed for a successful exit interview. Please follow the guidelines below.
Bring 4 printed copies of your article and all the evidence to your exit interview.
- Write a thesis statement. Describe how ready you are to live and learn more independently once you graduate. Explain why you believe that about yourself by explicitly naming a few reasons.
- 1 or 2 reasons is enough, but a stronger argument will be made of 3 to 4 reasons which all support your argument.
- Consider starting out by thinking about your greatest challenges during school. This might help you see what your greatest growth has been. You have already identified challenges related to internship; your growth question can become a rich thesis.
- Gather evidence to support the reasons contained in your thesis.
- Use assignments, events, projects, skills, etc. Pick things that you can bring to the exit interview to show.
- Explain how the evidence supports the reasons. Use conventional writing structures
Bring 4 printed copies of your article and all the evidence to your exit interview.
Example Thesis Statements
Use the examples below to see what thesis statement look like. Each example show one thesis statement at different levels of richness and simplicity.
Thesis Example 1: Independence
Thesis Example 2: Attention
Thesis Example 1: Independence
- I became more independent during high school.
- I became more independent as a learner during high school.
- Learning to manage my time without being reminded made me more independent as a learner.
- Learning to manage my time without being reminded was harder than I expected, but it made me more independent as a learner.
- Learning to manage my time without being reminded was harder than I expected and the difficulty itself is what made the growth real.
Thesis Example 2: Attention
- I got better at paying attention during high school.
- I got better at directing my attention during high school.
- Learning to direct my attention toward hard thinking, rather than away from it, changed how I learn.
- Learning to direct my attention toward hard thinking, rather than away from it, is something I had to practice and I still don't always get it right.
- Because I learned to direct my attention toward hard thinking rather than away from it, I can now survive in environments where no one manages that for me.