Our Loss of Wisdom

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/our-loss-of-wisdom-barry-schwartz

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GOALS, DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION

ADVISORY

What is advisory?

Advisory is a fundamental structure for middle and high school students designed to help them develop life skills and positive learning habits in support of academic achievement, personal growth, and skill development.

SKILLS

Analyzing academic dataSetting and reflecting on both academic and

personal goalsManaging timeOrganizing materialsDeveloping effective study skillsAcquiring communication skills Working collaboratively with othersProblems solvingAdvocating for oneself

GOAL #1: Creating Community

Advisories serve as a safe space where students come together as a peer group to support each other’s academic and personal goals, and future aspirations. Research shows that belonging to this kind of positive peer group increases the students’ attachment to school and reduces risk behaviors including school failure and dropping out.

GOAL #2: Academic Advisement

Advisories build students’ capacity to monitor their week-to-week academic progress and achievement. Through highly structured systems, processes and protocols, the advisor creates an academic culture where students become practiced in a set of skills that enable them to reflect on and analyze data related to their student profile and in turn set measurable academic, social and behavioral goals.

GOAL #3: Social and Emotional Learning

Advisories help students strengthen social, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive competencies. Supporting students’ social and emotional growth and self-regulated behavior, in the context of a peer cohort, promotes self-discipline and group cohesiveness. Students learn a set of communication skills that help them take a problem solving approach to their day-to-day experiences.

Why Advisory? ESR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg6TXl7YZ1U

RATIONALE

Promotes small, caring communities of learners

Promotes individual attention to students

Allows teachers to be actively involved in the affective development of students

Assists students with interpersonal communication skills development

DESIGN

Careful organization, p0lanning, preparing, implementing, and monitoring

Guidance department, administration, and district-level support

Advisors need to be trained and committed to teaching young adolescence

Need regularly scheduled meeting times

For 20 – 40 minutes, groups of 10 – 15 students

EMPHASIS

Based on teacher and student input

Address the needs of specific school and community issues

Teaches respect for self and others, promotes good citizenship

Develops group, team, and school spirit

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Schools implementing successful advisory

programs

Workshop time!