New team members: How would you like to contribute to this curriculum?
Submitted by andrewstillman on Sun, 01/14/2007 - 5:26pm.
I'm still in my first year as an advisor in a small urban high school, where advisory is a full credit class that meets 4 times per week.Â
As you can see, this curriculum is still very much a rough draft...with lots of TLC needed!
What strengths and resources do people have that they can offer to make this curriculum a better resource for advisors? Â
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What I can bring to HS Advisory Curriculum...
...my professional readings.
...my support, cheerleading your efforts.
...collaboration, sounding board for new ideas.
 Currently teachers at my school have the time built in the schedule to do this kind of curriculum but nothing like that is being done that I am aware of and no credit is being awarded. I'm hoping that it will move towards a more solid curriculum for all students to be mentored. There was talk at one committee that I'm on to assign one 'mentor' teacher to each student that follows that student to graduation...similar to if an IEP teacher/monitor follows a student year to year. Shop teachers have the same student year after year. The proposal is to have academic teachers mentor the same set of students year after year. It's like looping at the secondary level... Counselors have the same students for 10-11-12...now the students would have a third constant consistent adult in their school career to follow them to graduation.
Post readings as "team weblinks"
Sandra,
Thanks for the response! I look forward to our collaborations.
To start...
If you have web resources or articles you'd like to add for the purpose of discussion, that would be great. I'll give you some simple choice, since I realize that learning the site takes a bit:
1) Create a new forum post with a link to the resource, perhaps asking for feedback and/or framing a curiculum development task or question based on the resource.
2) Add the resource to the "team weblinks" section of the team home page. There's a link to "add team weblink" in the "High School Advisory Curriculum" menu.
Also, we should probably think of ways to make this curriculum project modular and flexible enough to be easily adapted to diverse situations....this isn't an easy task, but it will draw more users and contributors, and be much more useful to many in the long run. I welcome your thoughts on how to organize things so they fit this criteria.
Cheers,
Andrew