Professional Learning – Phase 2

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Advising Coordinators Introduction of Unit 1 Professional Learning goals, purpose, and objectives to Senior advisors with coaching and support from Associate Director

• Call to Action – Alternative Professional Learning presentation
• Advising Coordinators explain the goal that departmental training will implement professional learning opportunities that encourage collaboration and hands-on learning opportunities for various advising cohorts and skill levels

• Coordinators facilitate discussion on the most frequently asked questions fielded by advisors through various advising cycles (P5: Relevance/Content Specific Needs)
  • Pair-and-share/Discussion prompt: List the most often asked information asked of advisors
    • Pairs share their top 3-5 with the group.
• Senior Advisors compile an itemized list of topics, categories, and sources for information/answers to the most frequently asked questions.
• Advising coordinators share their lists and add new areas identified from these expanded discussions.

• Senior Advisors schedule observations of advising sessions (in-person, virtual, phone, and email) for advisors within their career cluster and at least two others outside of team cohort. Through observation of advising interactions, senior advisors seek to identify patterns of information transfer and common frustrations faced by advisors and students.
• Senior Advisors add to brainstormed list from Unit 1: Module 2: Session 2

Advising Coordinators provide a general overview of Professional ePortfolios while Senior Advisors follow along from laptops [a digital show-and-tell, if you will].

• Handout on platform options and an assignment to explore the benefits and features of the various platforms

• Coordinators and Associate Director share advising portfolios (P4 Modeling)
• 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.

• Senior Advisors select their ePortfolio platform.
• Senior Advisors sign up and publish their homepage with the guidance and support of Advising Coordinators.
• 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? 

• Senior Advisors discuss the creative process, any 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 set up process of an ePortfolio.
• Senior Advisors make choices regarding basic navigation and begin planning menu considerations.
• Each Senior Advisor publishes an About me page to share with Advising Coordinators and Associate Director.

• Advising Coordinators further develop their ePortfolio through co-learning and coaching as a guide on the side through while creating additional content ideas for their ePortfolios.

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

• Senior Advisors 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.
• Senior Advisors will submit a link to their published eP on their team 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 Senior Advisor selects one of the top challenges to research solutions which they will share with their Advising Coordinator and Senior Advising cohort within a Teams Chat.

• Senior Advisors discuss the creative process, any frustrations they experience while building their ePorfolio homepage, and considerations they explore as they create an online advising presence.
• Senior Advisors plan and prepare to facilitate Phase 3 of the Introduction to Professional Learning: ePortfolios to the advisors within their advising team.
• Senior Advisors and Advising Coordinators plan workshops and activities for Advisors to experience eP discussion and implementation.

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