ADVISORY - College Board

ADVISORY

Session Guides

11th

GRADE

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Eleventh Grade

Goal 1:

To help advisees reflect upon and monitor their academic progress through a formal conferencing structure

Environment and Routines for Conferencing...................................................... 2 Individual Academic Conferencing...................................................................... 6

Goal 2:

To develop and maintain relationships between and among advisees and the adviser

Returning Advisory Orientation: Jump-Starting Advisory............................... 21 New Advisory Orientation: What Is Advisory? (Part One ofTwo).................... 24 New Advisory Orientation: Creating a Safe Space (PartTwo ofTwo).............. 27 Student Voice and Choice Protocol.................................................................... 29 Team Building: Sharing Histories....................................................................... 34 Team Building: Group R?sum?........................................................................... 37 Team Building:Thirty-Second Questions........................................................... 41 Team Building: Luck of the Draw........................................................................ 44 Team Building: College Door (Part One ofThree)............................................. 48 Team Building: College Door (PartTwo ofThree).............................................. 52 Team Building: College Door (PartThree ofThree)........................................... 54 End-of-Year Advisory Poem................................................................................ 56 Advisory Survey and Pick an Object End-of-Year Reflections.......................... 61

Goal 3:

To help advisees identify and develop the necessary attitudes, behaviors and skills to succeed in school, college and life

College Happens Now: Common Application Scavenger Hunt (Part One ofTwo).................................................................................................. 66 College Happens Now: Creating Action Plans (PartTwo ofTwo)..................... 73 Positive and Negative Group Behaviors............................................................ 78 What First-in-the-Family College Students Need............................................. 85 Key to Me: Writing A Bio-Poem.......................................................................... 89 How Healthy Is My Relationship?....................................................................... 92 Mountains and Valleys........................................................................................ 96 Imagining Future Possibilities:The Crew from the Parking Lot....................... 99 Transition to the Holidays..................................................................................106 My Online Code.................................................................................................. 110 Teacher?Student Relationships.........................................................................121

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Building a College-Going Support Network.....................................................124 Graduation Roadmap: Tracking Progress Towards a Diploma.........................128 Goal 4: To provide advisees with the resources and information necessary to make thoughtful decisions about the future Preparing for a College Visit..............................................................................138 What Are You Looking For in a College?...........................................................142 Extracurricular R?sum?......................................................................................148 Personality Types and Career Choices..............................................................152 Money Talks: Increasing Your Financial Aid Savvy...........................................159 Educational Options...........................................................................................166 Holland Self-Assessment and College Majors.................................................173 College Search Online........................................................................................183 Your College MATCH (Part One of Two)............................................................186 Your College MATCH (PartTwo ofTwo).............................................................191 Your Roadmap for Navigating the SAT?...........................................................194 College Application FAQs: Each OneTeach One...............................................198 SUNY Application: Just the Basics................................................................... 203

Glossary ................................................................................................................................ 205 Gatherings.............................................................................................................................. 209 Closings................................................................................................................................. 215 Materials............................................................................................................................... 216 References............................................................................................................................. 217 Additional Resources.............................................................................................................. 218

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To the Adviser

Why was a College Board Schools Advisory Session Guide developed? Advisory is a key component in promoting the academic success of students in their college preparation while attending a College Board School. Here students can monitor their progress under the guidance of a caring adult, build supportive relationships with peers and with their adviser, develop the behaviors that lead to success in school and beyond and be provided with the resources necessary to make thoughtful decisions about the future.

Few teachers, school counselors or social workers, however, learn how to "do" advisory as part of their professional training. As a result, questions remain about what effective sessions that achieve the goals of advisory look like. As a result, College Board Schools has produced this guide as a way of helping advisers deliver a quality program that leads to success for all students.

How was the College Board Schools Advisory Session Guide developed? In order to design a session guide custom fit for its schools, the College Board Schools enlisted a group of teachers, school counselors and social workers from its schools as the writers. This team convened for four writing institutes during 2008?2009 under the facilitation of Donna Mehle, a consultant from Educators for Social Responsibility.

The writers began by designing curricular goals based upon multiple resources identified in the reference page of this guide. The team then mapped out session plans for grades six through 12, taking into consideration the goals that needed greater emphasis in certain years. The initial writing phase began with grades eight, nine and 10, since these years are critical in determining students' academic success. The completed project encompasses grades six through 12.

Writers gathered sessions they had used successfully in the past and also created new material.The first set of sessions was written in the spring of 2009 and piloted at the writers' schools, where feedback was obtained from advisers to refine the distinct session plans.

How are the sessions organized? The sessions are aligned with four goals in mind:

1. To help advisees reflect upon and monitor their academic progress through a formal conferencing structure

2. To develop and maintain relationships between and among advisees and the adviser 3. To help advisees identify and develop the necessary attitudes, behaviors and skills to succeed

in school, college and life 4. To provide advisees with the resources and information necessary to make thoughtful deci-

sions about the future The Advisory Session Guide is designed as a menu of at least 36 session plans, one for each week of the academic year. It can be used as a primary resource for those schools that have advisory once a week, while schools that offer advisory more often will need to supplement it with additional resources. Because the guide is a menu of session plans, there is no prescribed

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