Advisors’ Role
Advisors are:
- Not teachers who focus on content and assessment...their focus is on the advisees
- Not counselors or social workers...they work with 20 or fewer students, not hundreds
- Not counselors or social workers...they notice an advisee needs counseling, but do not provide counseling
- Not friends...a professional who believes in and supports their advisees
- Delivers of prescribed lessons or creators of the lessons they deliver
- Aware of the goals to be accomplished and aware of the student outcomes that need to be met
- Recipient of professional development to serve in advisor role
- Responsible or not responsible for parent/guardian contact (depends on program)
- Responsible for working with students to review grades and set goals
- Responsible for some level of college and career exploration
- Protected from damaging the adviser-advisee relationship that result from being directly involved in disciplinary matters
- Catalysts for informing and involving students in extracurricular activities
Advisors need:
- a list of all advisory groups by advisor
- an alphabetical list of all students with the advisor listed
- past as well as current student academic data
- other data to be identified by the given school