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Enhancing Advising at Asheville School: Collective Insights and Growth

This session encourages advisors at Asheville School to reflect on their roles, share experiences, and cultivate a deeper understanding of effective advising. Participants will discuss challenges such as the clarity of goals, the need for more training, and the importance of being available for advisees. By recalling admirable advising moments, sharing insights, and identifying common values, we aim to create a supportive community of practice that enhances the advisor experience and promotes meaningful connections with students.

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Enhancing Advising at Asheville School: Collective Insights and Growth

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  1. Pondering

  2. Surveying • “would like more direction” • “I wish that we could find a way to make white Tuesdays more meaningful ” • “I wish the goals of the advisor program were more clear” • “I wish I had more training” • “[It’s] hard for me to be as available for my advisees as others are”

  3. TALKING ABOUT ADVISING AT ASHEVILLE SCHOOL

  4. PURPOSE: Creating a space to talk with each other about our roles as advisors • GOALS: • To move toward a shared understanding of what it means to be “a good advisor” • To have a chance to help each other in this aspect of professional lives by exchanging ideas, feedback, and support

  5. REMEMBERING • Describe a time when you saw an advisor do something and thought to yourself, “That’s a good advisor,” or “That’s good advising.” • Try to name or identify what it was you admired in this interaction, incident, or event. • Please don’t name the advisor here. • New to advising? Use a memory from a teaching or mentoring interaction.

  6. SHARING • Summarize your story for your group. Include your ideas about what you found special or valuable. • Once each person has shared, identify a set of words/phrases/descriptors that encompass all the values your group named. • Aim to boil it down to three to six ideas. • Record these on the giant Post-It.

  7. RECORDING • ONCE EACH PERSON HAS SHARED, IDENTIFY A SET OF WORDS/PHRASES/DESCRIPTORS THAT ENCOMPASS ALL THE VALUES YOUR GROUP NAMED. • *AIM FOR THREE TO SIX IDEAS HERE: PERHAPS YOUR GROUP NAMES FIVE DISTINCT VALUES; PERHAPS SOME STORIES HINT AT MORE THAN ONE; PERHAPS YOU FIND THAT YOU CAN GROUP SOME IDEAS TOGETHER UNDER A COMMON THEME. USE THE GIANT POST-IT NOTE TO RECORD THESE IDEAS.

  8. Wrapping up “advocate, confidante, resource person, mentor, coach, and parent figure” “write periodic reports home” “distribute advisee grades”

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