Teacher Advisor Program

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Teacher Advisor Program

• Hawcs-
• Helping All With Career Success

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What is it?

• A series of advisory meetings, leading up to
  and culminating with, a conference involving
  teachers, parents and students for the purpose of
  providing students with individual planning of
  high school curriculum directly related to a
  chosen career interest.

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Guidance vs. Counseling
GUIDANCE The help all students receive from
family, teachers, counselors, community members
and others to assist with personal-social,
educational and career decision-making.
COUNSELING The help some students receive from
counselors professionals to overcome personal and
social problems that interfere with learning.
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GUIDANCE WHY DO IT?
TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR A SMOOTH TRANSITION TO
THE NEXT EDUCATIONAL LEVEL
TO MOTIVATE STUDENTS TO TACKLE DIFFICULT
CURRICULUM AND WORK HARD
TO HELP STUDENTS MAKE SOUND
CHOICES
TO RAISE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
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Teachers As Advisors

• An individualized, comprehensive, and continuing
  career and academic guidance plan
• A process that enables students and their
  parents/guardians to gain knowledge needed to
  make informed academic and career preparation
  decisions
• Ongoing assessment of students strengths,
  weaknesses, career and academic objectives
• Short and long term goal setting to meet academic
  and career objectives
• A positive relationship with a small group of
• students and an adult
• A HSTW Best Practice

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Why?

• An opportunity to explore the possibilities and
  advantages of pursuing non-traditional careers
• A supportive environment where skills, abilities,
  and interests play a key role in decision-making
• A team approach to meeting student and
  parent/guardian needs
• Integration between academic and career areas of
  education
• An organized method to distribute information and
  effectively use time
• Another adult on campus with whom
  parents/guardians can develop a relationship that
  is beneficial to all involved

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Who?

• All faculty all students
• Each faculty member will serve as an advisor to
  approximately 15 students
• Students will be divided by grade level
• Advisors stay at grade level change students
  the following year
• As seniors, students will become a part of a
  larger advisory activity known as Senior PROJECT
  in addition to regular HAWCS activities

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Benefits

• Student more informed or knowledgeable about
  future options
• Empowers students
• Gives more confidence talking to adults
• Student sells his/her own program
• Students will show commitment
• Students will enroll in higher level courses when
  teachers explain or recommend to parents.

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Teachers

• Help students to accept responsibility for their
  own learning
• Engage the parent and student to talk honestly
• Teachers support students

• Teachers facilitate student led conferences
• Role model skills
• Teachers show flexibility and acceptance to
  student

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Students

• Share with parent test scores, career plans and
  report card
• Bring parent/
• guardian to conference
• Student do introduction

• Explain courses and reason to take
• Be familiar with your papers in folder

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Parents

• Parents bring the student to conference with them
• Take notes
• Ask for clarification on things not understood

• Student does most of talking
• Student will tell you their progress
• Be sure you as the parent has an appointment
• Make a list of questions

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When?

• Advisory groups will meet approximately once a
  week
• Typically on a Thursdays, a different bell
  schedule will be followed which allows 25 minutes
  for advisory meetings

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• NO SIGNIFICANT LEARNING OCCURS WITHOUT A
  SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP.
• Dr. James Comer

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Building Relationships

• Respect Student
• Be a support system
• Care about Student
• Be a Positive Role Model
• Promote Student Achievement

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TEAMWORK