Advisory powerpoint
- 1. Program, Mission, Roles and Responsibilities, Activities and Calendars
- 2. The mission of the ISB middle and high school advisory program is based around the ideals of each students safety, spirit, responsibility, and resiliency. An effective advisory program ensures that every student has the opportunity to feel known, heard, and understood. Within the program students will optimize social and academic competencies that they need to navigate the hurdles of middle and high school as well as make a smooth transition to college and career.
- 3. Additionally, we encourage each student to develop, access, and demonstrate interpersonal and cultural awareness. Students make meaningful connections with other students and with adults, and take personal responsibility for contributing to a positive school culture.
- 4. An advisory teacher takes on different roles in this class than typical teaching roles. An advisor fulfills the goals of the advisory mission statement by: Being an advocate for each student within the group
- 5. Creating a safe space within which students feel that they have a home basea place where they can express their thoughts and feelings freely Participating with the students in every activity in advisory
- 6. Helping students bond on a personal level with each other and with adults in the school community and beyond. Fostering the development of study skills and appropriate work habits
- 7. Promoting acceptable behavior within the school community Monitoring student records and academic progress
- 8. Service learning: ongoing relationship in school community Futures (college/career planning, grade/school/country transitions) Keeping personal information about students confidential
- 9. Providing additional intervention and support to students who demonstrate patterns of academic, behavioral, social or emotional difficulties Assisting teachers and advisors with strategies to work with students Meeting with the appropriate grade levels to conduct specialized sessions focused on transitions, career searches, university applications, academic requirements, etc. Being an ongoing resource to advisors to assist with strategies and problem-solving in their advisory activities/meetings. Disseminating confidential information about students on a need-to-know basis
- 10. Administering disciplinary measures to students who violate academic or behavioral codes Disseminating confidential information about students on a need-to-know basis Consulting with teachers/advisors/counselors about student issues as needed Assisting with parent contact and liaison arrangements
- 11. Monitoring students academic progressBottom of Form Designing appropriate action plans when students are not achieving academic success Conducting specialized sessions in Diploma program options and course selection, the Grade 10 Personal Project, etc.
- 12. Organizing community outreach programs Meeting with students of all grade levels to discuss service opportunities Providing means of documentation and following up on and signing off on CAS completion
- 13. One person speaks at a time Agree to disagree in an atmosphere of mutual respect Give each person the right to have and express his/her own view Emphasize the positive points Listen actively No put-downs and/or mocking allowed Allow everyone to speak, trying not to exclude anyone Try not to make a second comment until everyone has spoken once Everyone has a right to pass Use I statements as a way of expressing views Respect confidentiality
- 14. Getting-to-know-you-better activities Individual interviews