Teacher advisor programs : building relationships
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Date
2008
Authors
Primas, Erin
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education
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Publisher
Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2008
Abstract
Teacher Advisor programs have been implemented in junior high schools, middle
schools, and high schools to build relationships with students, increase student academic
success, increase the social skills of students, and provide an opportunity for students to
interact positively with other students in the school. The focus of the teacher advisor
program is typically in an area the school wishes to improve. Each school implements
activities to achieve the predetermined goal. For example, a teacher advisor program
could focus on: academic success, building relationships, or anti bullying. Each school
designs activities, schedules, and groupings to achieve the specific goal( s) of the teacher
advisor program. Once the initial reason for the teacher advisor program has been met,
the program can be adapted or changed to incorporate and achieve new goals. Tuxedo
Park School (a pseudonym) has focused on using the newly implemented teacher advisor
program to build relationships among students, parents, and teachers. The school has
introduced a number of new activities to build these relationships, as well as created a
Teacher Advisor Professional Learning Community to discuss issues, solve problems that
may occur, document ideas and strategies, discuss how students are participating and
reacting to the activities, discuss and improve problems teachers are having, and offer
any suggestions for any improvements that can be made to the program. This project,
Teacher Advisor Programs: Building Relationships, will identify and describe different
activities that have been implemented at Tuxedo Park SchooL how students have reacted
to activities, and how teachers are responding to the teacher advisor program. Through
documents, pictures, descriptions of activities, time lines, and an I web site, this project
will describe how Tuxedo Park's Teacher Advisor Program was started, and what modifications were made to ensure that the program's goal of building relationships is
occurring.
Description
xiii, 113 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm. --
Keywords
Educational counseling , Teacher-student relationships , Counseling , Teacher participation in educational counseling