At last night’s Board of Education Meeting, RHS Junior Megan Burns presented her AP Seminar “Task 2” Multimedia Presentation entitled Impacts of Parental Expectations on Student Mental Health.
The big picture:
Advanced Placement Seminar began at RHS this year and is one of two courses students can take to earn an AP Capstone Diploma. The second course, AP Research, will begin in September.
The purpose of AP Seminar is to engage students in the complexities of academic and real-world topics and to involve them in investigating, analyzing, and synthesizing information to communicate ideas.
Performance Tasks are built into the program, similar to the rest of our curriculum. For Performance Task 2, students analyze relevant research, explore debatable topics, conduct their own research, and then produce solutions to their chosen issue.
Why it matters: This level of academic rigor is engaging and exciting for our students when they get to explore topics that are meaningful to them.
Last night, Megan shared her research and analysis of the question, “How is the mental state of young generations negatively affected by academic and parental pressure?”
Profile of a Ramsey Graduate: Megan and her classmates demonstrate Profile of a Ramsey Graduate competencies that will serve them in their lives and careers: critical thinking to create viable solutions, adaptability to follow the research, and self-direction to set a path to success and follow it.