How to Apply to College - College Readiness

Prepare your high school juniors and seniors for the college admissions and application process with this interactive Google Slides presentation. This complete lesson explains when students should begin the college application process, how to make a college list, and what's needed to complete a college application. Also included: an extension activity asking students to make a spreadsheet or table to show the colleges they plan to apply to and the required application materials and deadlines.

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WHAT'S INCLUDED (a complete lesson that uses the 5E Learning Cycle!):

• Engage: Question to hook students.
• Explore: Question to activate prior knowledge and the chance to ask questions before getting into the lesson.
• Explain: In this lesson, students learn answers to the following questions:
  *When should you begin the college application process?
  *How do you make your college list and decide where to apply? (Click HERE for a more extensive lesson on "How to Choose a College")
  *What do you need to complete your college applications?
• Elaborate/Extend: The extension part of the lesson includes discussion questions and an editable assignment asking students to:

1. Make a spreadsheet or table to show the colleges you plan to apply to and the required application materials and deadlines.
2. Include the 5-8 colleges you are most likely to apply to even if you are only seriously planning to apply to 2-3 colleges.
3. Attach your spreadsheet or table to this assignment. (Teacher Note: this is the only editable part of the presentation so that you can change the extension activity as you see fit; other ideas are included!).

• Evaluate: Reflection questions at the end of the presentation.
• Extra: Ideas for engaging students and extending the lesson further!

⭐️ This presentation can be used by teachers or counselors with distance learning, face-to-face instruction, OR a hybrid approach in any secondary class. You can present the lesson to the whole class or have students review it themselves in small groups! This is the perfect lesson for a high school AVID, advisory, CTE, life skills, or language arts class!

⭐️ This product is a COMPLETE LESSON in one place (similar to a Hyperdoc, which takes students through the learning cycle in one doc or slide deck using hyperlinks and other media). Perfect for using as a differentiated, self-paced, student-centered lesson, and/or whole-class presentation!

⭐️ The time it takes for the entire lesson will vary depending on how much time you allow for group discussions, follow-up class sharing, and extension activities. You could spend as little as 45 minutes on the presentation itself, if that's all the time you have, or one to three whole classes or more if you include some of the suggested extension activities. For ESL classes, you may need a little more time.

Note: You can skip or delete any of the slides you don't want to use and add your own notes to any of the slides.

⭐️ This lesson has it all:

• Explicit instruction: This lesson is direct and systematically chunked following a 5E lesson plan and guides students with a clear purpose/essential question, explanation, and supported practice/extension.
• 21st century skills: Students use media and technology literacy skills with this interactive Google Slides presentation and use critical thinking, collaboration, and communication with all the opportunities for discussion.
• Multi-modalities and hands-on learning: Students view and/or listen to the presentation, write and talk about their learning in “think-write-pair-shares” and discussion groups, and possibly more depending on what you assign in the extension, such as producing an essay or video to demonstrate understanding and synthesizing ideas.
• Differentiation: Depending on students’ levels, you could present to the class as a whole and/or assign students to view the slides independently or in small groups and answer the questions as you see fit.
• Scaffolding: This complete lesson comes in manageable parts, from activating prior knowledge to reflection and assessment, and can be teacher- or student-paced.
• Higher levels of questioning: The discussion questions require higher-level thinking such as analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
• Real-life connection: The college and career-readiness topic and essential question are meaningful and relevant to students’ futures.
• Student choice: To add student choice, give students options of strategies, tools, and/or extension activities.

⭐️ You might also like this College Admission Bundle and this Senior-Year College-Readiness Checklist.

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