Renaissance Proposal Form

Answer the following questions to the best of your ability or create a document that addresses ALL of the following questions. It will be reviewed with and adult advisor who will help you expand and refine your thoughts.

Name:

Date:

Renaissance Study Proposal Title:

What do you want to study? Why is this study important to you? What prior experience do you have in your life that relates to this topic; what has brought you to this point of wanting to study this topic?(Be as detailed as you can. Include factual information, intellectual or physical skills, creative accomplishments.)

Describe your plan of study. Include how you will accomplish your learning and the steps will you take to meet your goals. What knowledge and/or skills do you hope or expect to learn by the end of this study? (Include: What sort of project will you do? What books will you read? What videos will you watch? What types of internships would you like to set up?)

Describe the resources you intend to use.

What will you do to document your process to show your progress and learning?

Describe how will you communicate what you have learned to others at the end of the study?

Describe one way you will connect what you are learning to the school or larger community?

What types of people could be mentors to you? (If you have specific people in mind, list their names.)

What VT Student Performance Standards does your study address? (include Vital Results and Field of Knowledge Standards)

Draft a possible time frame for your study.

To what graduation requirement are you hoping this study will be applied?

6/2000 (revised 4/2001, 1/2002, 9/2002 by Debra Stoleroff)

Download the proposal form in PDF format