JIS: Kendel Leet Angie Machacek ANNELISE MCdougall MS Counselor @ - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Designing and Implementing Advisory Programs: A Tale of Two Cities

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MS Counselor @ JIS Work Experience: Jakarta International School Brent International School Manila Shaikha Hessa Girls’ School Bahrain MS Counselor @ JIS Work Experience: Jakarta International School American School of Doha Shanghai American School MS Counselor @ AISJ Work Experience: Jakarta International School American International School/Dhaka French American International School SF Frankfurt International School

Kendel Leet Angie Machacek ANNELISE MCdougall

WHY ARE YOU HERE?

PURPOSE/GOAL OF OUR SESSION

Each school is UNIQUE: Identify this and create a PROGRAM that matches. Critically think about HOW your school currently MEETS the social and emotional needs of the students Leave our session with TOOLS to evaluate and IDEAS to improve, create or implement an advisory program.

WHERE DOES

YOUR SCHOOL

FALL ON THE ADVISORY CONTINUUM?

Our Middle School is sufficiently addressing the social and emotional well-being of our students.

Our Middle School faculty are invested in addressing the social/emotional well-being of our students Every Middle School student in our school has an

• pportunity to form

a connection with a faculty member

WHO needs to be involved in the PROCESS?

❖ Administration (buy in, support and decision making) ❖ Faculty (buy in and support) ❖ Mentor Group (help with planning and implementation)

GETTING STARTED Pre-Implementation JUST DO IT HOW IS IT GOING? WE CAN DO THIS! Implementation Evaluation Maintenance

AUDIT: DATA COLLECTION

What are you using to assess the effectiveness of your current program?

• ISCA Audit: Needs Assessment; Standards and

Benchmarks

• Search Institute 40 Assets Survey
• Google Form (Surveys)
• Agree/Disagree exercise with faculty
• Student Connection activity

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Determine Philosophy and Purpose

• SIZE of group matters: 7-10
• CHOICE is important for both students and faculty
• Have SIMPLE and CLEAR GOALS
• Allow FLEXIBILITY of program content
• Include STUDENTS as much as possible
• TIME is always an issue
• Admin Support is KEY for the program to become

INSTITUTIONALIZED

KEY ELEMENTS OF SUCCESSFUL PROGRAMS

OBSTACLES TO ANTICIPATE

More things to consider...

• How do you decide on your program’s structure?
• Where will the TIME come from?
• What other programs will be affected (if any)?
• How many groups are feasible?
• Size of groups?
• How will the groups be determined?
• How do you determine content?

Additional Resources:

https://sites.google.com/site/msadvisorymodel/home

A Tale of Two Cities

JIS:

• AISJ uses concepts found in the

Developmental Design/Origins Program

• CPR Model: Circle of Power and Respect
• JIS has recently changed their advisory

program to a student and teacher choice based model called “Flex”

• Purpose is to provide a more inclusive

program that fosters building authentic relationships through shared mutual interest.

“Finding fun, meaningful personal-growth activities for middle-school-age students can be challenging. The program can’t be too serious or it will feel like yet another obligation; it can’t be too touchy-feely or it will generate eye-rolling and text messages of lame.“

Establish Trust

Prepare Students to Learn Teach Social Skills Make School Meaningful & Pleasurable

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C P R :

Allows for the inclusion of ALL students and is highly interactive

We have already gone through 3 components of the CPR Model

Let’s look at the overall model and WHY each component is important

• To give focus to

the Advisory lesson

• Give information about the

purpose and scope of the lesson for that particular day

• To create a thinking or

writing prompt for the students

• ACTIVITY: is a chance to have fun through the power of
• play. To engage, cooperate, include all, develop self-control,

and spark academic and social emotional learning.

• ACTIVITY PLUS: if the focus is on certain

themes, such as “Bullying” or “Stress Reduction”, the activity will revolve around the theme, and the SHARE portion of the CPR may be eliminated

• r incorporated into the activity

• To read out the answers

to the original prompt

• This is a time to read

the Daily Message out loud as a group

• To reflect on that day’s

CPR experience.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT OUR ADVISORY PROGRAM?

It is a great way to connect with my students and understand them better. It forces me to be opened to their perspective and see school life through their eyes. I think I am a better, more flexible,

• pen-minded teacher as a result

I like the opportunity to have a smaller group of students who I get to know on a deeper level, and I like time in the day to discuss something other than the science that I am teaching Students really bond well with their Advisor and often feel that they have a substitute parent in the school setting. Through the activities and intimate discussions, students often say the Advisory is like a second family and the

• ther advisees like siblings

It is an incredible way to connect with kids, first thing in the morning. Keep it short, sweet and to the point, and you’ll always know where your kids are...

WHAT COULD BE IMPROVED? We need to make an effort to include more interactive and cooperative games

Perhaps having more interaction/connection vertically between the grade level advisories … “sister advisories”

Sometimes students really want to deepen relationships with their select peer group, rather than a random assortment of peers, so this can affect their level

• f engagement

We might consider how to include a bit more individual advisor/teacher time to talk about grades

• r whatever...

24 % of students felt good about our previous program Last Survey: 79% of students liked the new program