Professional Learning – Phase 1

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Associate Director introduction of Unit 1 Professional Learning goals, purpose, and objectives to Advising Coordinators

• Call to Action – Alternative Professional Learning presentation.
• Explain the goal for team training and professional learning that will encourage collaboration and hands-on learning opportunities for various advising cohorts through upcoming training activities.

• Pair-and-share/Discussion prompt: List the most often asked information asked of advisors
  • Pairs share their top 3-5 with the group.
• Coordinators compile an itemized list of topics, categories, and sources for information/answers to the most frequently asked questions that advisors field through various advising cycles (P5: Relevance/Content Specific Needs).

• Coordinators schedule observations of senior advisor advising sessions (in-person, virtual, phone, and email) to look for patterns and common frustrations faced by advisors and students.
• Coordinators add to brainstormed list from Unit 1: Module 1: Session 2

• General overview of Professional ePortfolios while coordinators follow along from laptops [a digital show-and-tell, if you will].
  • Handout on platform options and assignment to explore the benefits and features of the various platforms

• Associate Director shares advising portfolio (P4: Modeling) – advising.blog 
• Open forum for questions about form, function, site traffic, and anything else following inquisitive paths of inquiry.

• Walk-and-talk/Discussion prompt: What are some digital solutions to advisors’ FAQs? 
  • Discuss various media (video, images, screenshots) that could be used to answer advisors’ commonly expressed frustrations over the lack of reading and participation by students/learners/advisees.
  • Discuss common themes found in observations of advising interactions.
  • Explore the potential benefits and challenges (P2: Ongoing support) of utilizing a portfolio platform to deliver FAQ information to students without access to the Learning Management System (LMS) – a solution to password issues, prospective students, and other general information needs by offering ubiquitous access.

• Advising coordinators select their ePortfolio platform.
• Coordinators sign up and publish their homepage.
• Active engagement in a technical skills workshop where support is available throughout the web presence publication process.

• Walk-and-talk/Discussion prompt: What frustrations are you experiencing as you create your ePortfolio? What are you excited to learn to do? 
  • Coordinators discuss the creative process, frustrations they experience while building their ePorfolio homepage, and considerations they explore as they create an online advising presence.

• Active, group, and/or independent lab time to provide ongoing individual and group support throughout the setup process of an ePortfolio.
• Coordinators make choices regarding basic navigation and begin planning menu considerations.
• Each coordinator publishes an About me page to share with the Leadership team (Advising Coordinators and Associate Director).

• Advising Coordinators present their ePortfolios to one another.
• Coordinators make notes to post feed-forward to their teammates.
• Coordinators share navigation thoughts and ideas with the team.

• Advising Coordinators revise/edit, add additional pages, or continue working on eP and bio depending on skill/creative ideas.
• Advanced tech users may begin plans to add a blog page and additional structural components as needed.
• Advising Coordinators will submit a link to their published eP on the leadership Trello board for future reflection and feed-forward.

• Pair-and-share/Discussion prompt: What challenges may advisors face when presented with this Introduction to Professional Learning: ePorfolios?
  • Pairs share potential challenges and brainstorm ways to support advisors as everyone learns together.
  • Each coordinator selects one of the top 4 challenges to research solutions and shares within the leadership team discussion/Teams Chat.

• Advising coordinators reflect on their learning experience to refine and further develop professional learning that they will deliver to senior advising teams.
  • Walk-and-talk/Discussion prompt: What components work? What could be better? How can additional support and mentorship be developed?
  • Coordinators discuss the creative process, any frustrations they experience while building their ePorfolio homepage, and considerations they explore as they create an online advising presence.
  • Coordinators plan and prepare to facilitate Phase 2 of the Introduction to Professional Learning: ePortfolios to Senior Advisors

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