As part of AUSD requirements for promotion to high school, students must complete a portfolio. This process is documented on this page. In addition, there are resources here for students and families to understand the expectations.
Academic Artifact Reflection
Each trimester students in all grade levels are to reflect on work completed in that trimester in each class. As they reflect they can use these questions to help build their portfolio. Each student will present 3 academic artifacts during their 8th grade interview.
Click here for a link to this reflection with sentence starters.
- Artifact Reflection for the _________________________ Project
- What were the Understanding Goals for this project?
- What were all the steps involved from start to finish?
- What do you think you did best when you participated in this project?
- What were your biggest challenges?
- If you were to do this project again, what would you do differently?
- What strengths do you think you displayed as you worked on this project?
- What did you learn while participating in this project?
- What Studio Habits of Mind did you use most in this project, and how did you use them?
- How did this project help answer the grade level throughline question?
- 6th Grade: How do my choices affect me, my family and my community?
- 7th: : How do we connect to a larger world?
- 8th Grade: How does Collaboration Facilitate Growth?
Personal Artifact Reflection
Use these questions when reflecting on the personal artifacts that you add to your website and use for the 8th grade interview. Each student will present 2 personal artifacts during their 8th grade interview.
- What skill or technique did you learn through this activity? (Develop Craft)
- Did you ever feel out of your comfort zone and have to work through that in this activity? (Engage and Persist)
- When did you come into contact with a field, an idea or a discipline that you were previously unfamiliar with in this activity? (Understand Community)
- What did you do during this activity that you had never done before? (Stretch and Explore)
- At what point during the activity did you look at something or some idea very closely? (Observe)
- What was something in the activity that really resonated or that you remember really well. Describe. (Reflect)
- What is something that you improved through this activity? (Reflect)
- How were you able to communicate your feelings, views, or experience in this activity? (Express)
- What images did you come up with to represent your work in this activity? (Envision)
Interviews
2018 Student Interviews will be April 27th.
Students are expected to dress professionally, bring elements of their artifacts and have a completed website to refer to.
Rubric for Scoring the Interview
