The Yearly Elective Fair at LHS is Just Around the Corner
Liberty has been hosting the elective fair for years but as of the school year 2016-2017 the Director of Counseling, Mr. Eric McCaslin, along with others decided to change the format of the fair.
The original way the elective fair had been set up was students going to the gym to walk around and check out teachers elective booths to learn more and ask questions for information.
“Many students were not taking advantage of the opportunity to talk to teachers about their courses,” said Mr. McCaslin.
The new system includes student filling out an online form to have a generated schedule that will then be followed by a bell rotation. Students will visit nine different classes, talking about nine different courses for ten minutes each.
“The new format ensures that students will hear information about different courses from different academic backgrounds,” said Mr. McCaslin.
The elective fair is for the rising tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade students to get an opportunity to learn about different electives offered at LHS that may or may not interest the individual student.
“Hopefully this will help students make more informed decisions about classes that they take to help them work towards their future educational and career goals they are considering,” said Director of Counseling Mr. McCaslin.
The elective fair will be held on Friday, February 28th morning from 9:20am-11:30am.
“As of right now, the details are still being ironed out and will be released sometime this week,” said Mr. McCaslin.
The survey will be open for students to choose their rotation classes will begin on Friday, February 14th. Students can find the survey on the LHS Counseling Website and on the Counseling Departments Twitter page (@LHSEaglesCslg). It will also be shared with all second block students beginning Tuesday, February 18th by their teachers. Completion of the survey by February 21st is required from every student. Those that do not initially do it will have to be tracked down to ask them to complete the survey.
Seniors will spend the majority of their time in the Cafeteria, the upper, lower, and main court of the Gym. They will be occupied by having a Breakfast, Career Fair and Info Session about Post-Grad options.
“Since this format has been used, we have had many students and teachers share positive feedback. Students have referenced the elective fair more frequently saying that they had learned helpful info about a course they ended up taking. The teachers have been able to market their classes better and we have sign a rise in enrollments in several classes,” said Mr. McCaslin.
Will • Mar 13, 2020 at 8:37 am
It helped me a lot previous years. It’s a great way to find new classes
Dally • Mar 11, 2020 at 10:03 pm
I love this article and the elective fair wasn’t to fun but it kind very was helpful
shashaida • Mar 11, 2020 at 1:30 pm
This is a great way to learn all about the classes to pick what they want to do the next year.
Betzaida Cortez • Mar 11, 2020 at 9:54 am
great article! I really liked the elective fair because we learned bout each elective now we know what classes to take.
amy • Mar 5, 2020 at 2:10 pm
this article was really good !!!! the electives fair was really fun.
eden • Mar 2, 2020 at 2:09 pm
I think that it was a good idea that Mr.McCaslin decided to change the elective fair to the way he did because that will then give teachers a better chance to know who they are working with.
zach • Mar 2, 2020 at 10:14 am
I think the elective fair is a really good idea.
Madison Dempsey • Mar 2, 2020 at 9:39 am
This article has really good information. Great job
Bailey Allen • Feb 28, 2020 at 2:14 pm
I think that the elective fair was a really good idea. It let me have the opportunity to learn about the different elective options. Now I know what the electives are about, great article.
Karlee • Feb 26, 2020 at 12:49 pm
I am really excited about the elective fair and i can’t wait to go around and see what some classes are all about. This was a really good article thanks for being really informative. I am super excited to go do this it sounds like so much fun.
Emily • Feb 26, 2020 at 8:52 am
Great article sounds like a great way to learn more about the stuff you’re interested in.
Mrs. Henry-Sievert • Feb 25, 2020 at 9:36 am
I liked your article about the Elective Fair and thanks for the flattering picture.
blaire odom • Feb 21, 2020 at 1:05 pm
Yeah I liked the elective fair. It was cool I visited like nine classrooms that were interesting to me and I thought it was cool. Anyway I hope that there will be another fair with the same thing too. Because I really like a little change to the school systems sometimes.
Grace Derby • Feb 21, 2020 at 12:22 pm
This was a good news announcement I forgot to do mine.
Jessica Wright • Feb 21, 2020 at 9:44 am
Loved reading this awesome article for the information! Great job
Keely Crane • Feb 20, 2020 at 10:30 am
Amazingly written article! Loved all the information!
Kaleece Blackwell • Feb 20, 2020 at 8:14 am
This is very informative. Good job