National Honor Society 

The purpose of the National Honor Society is to create enthusiasm for scholarship, to stimulate a desire to render service, to promote leadership, and to develop character in students of secondary schools.  At Macomb Senior High School, member selection is based upon the following method. 

1.                  The registrar will verify academic eligibility (cumulative GPA of 3.333) after the first semester of the sophomore, junior, or senior years. 

2.                  A letter of invitation will be delivered to each eligible student.  The letter will notify each academically eligible student of the procedures and deadlines to follow if they wish to seek National Honor Society selection.  The responsibility for obtaining, completing, and returning the Student Activity Information Sheet and all other required materials by the deadline lies with the student.  

3.                  Leadership, character, and service are key components for selection in National Honor Society.   A student’s cumulative GPA simply makes him/her eligible for membership consideration.  Teachers will complete rating sheets, using the attached rubric, to evaluate a student’s observed leadership, character, and service.  

4.                  The National Honor Society advisor will collect the teacher rating sheets, chart the ratings on a spreadsheet, and average the ratings for each student. 

5.                  The Faculty Council will meet after all information sheets and essays have been submitted, rating sheets have been compiled, and the spreadsheet has been prepared.  The Faculty Council will review the information sheets, essays submitted, and spreadsheets, and, using the attached rubric, select those students who meet the established standard for selection into the Macomb Senior High School National Honor Society.

National Honor Society Criteria 

The following criteria and information taken from the National Honor Society Handbook will give further help in the definition of leadership, service, and character. 

Leadership 

The student who exercises leadership:

• Is resourceful in proposing new problems, applying principles, and making suggestions
• Demonstrates initiative in promoting school activities
• Exercises influence on peers in upholding school ideals
• Contributes ideas that improve the civic life of the school
• Is able to delegate responsibilities
• Exemplifies positive attitudes
• Inspires positive behavior in others
• Demonstrates academic initiative
• Successfully holds school offices or positions of responsibility; conducts business effectively and efficiently; demonstrates reliability and dependability
• Is a leader in the classroom, at work, and in other school or community activities
• Is thoroughly dependable in any responsibility accepted
• Is willing to uphold scholarship and maintain a loyal school attitude

Service 

The student who serves:

• Volunteers and provides dependable and well organized assistance, is gladly available, and is willing to sacrifice to offer assistance
• Works well with others and is willing to take on difficult or inconspicuous responsibilities
• Cheerfully and enthusiastically renders any requested service to the school
• Is willing to represent the class or school in inter-class and inter-scholastic competition
• Does committee and staff work without complaint
• Participates in some activity outside of school, for example, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, church groups, volunteer services for the elderly, poor, or disadvantaged
• Mentors person in the community or student at other schools
• Shows courtesy by assisting visitors, teachers, and students

Character 

A person of character demonstrates the following six qualities: respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, fairness, caring, and citizenship.  In addition, it can also be said that the student of character:

• Takes criticism willingly and accepts recommendations graciously
• Consistently exemplifies desirable qualities of behavior (cheerfulness, friendliness, poise, and stability)
• Upholds principles of morality and ethics
• Cooperates by complying with school regulations concerning property, programs, office, halls, etc.
• Demonstrates the highest standards of honesty and reliability
• Regularly shows courtesy, concern, and respect for others
• Observes instructions and rules, is punctual, and faithful both inside and outside the classroom
• Has powers of concentration, self-discipline, and sustained attention as shown by perseverance and application to studies
• Manifests truthfulness in acknowledging obedience to rules, avoiding cheating in written work, and showing unwillingness to profit by the mistakes of others
• Actively helps rid the school of bad influences or environment

Macomb Senior High School National Honor Society

Selection Rubric

Leadership – 10 points 

Character – 10 points 

Service – 10 points 

 Points Totals for National Honor Society Selection