Phase 3
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
10 hours, 30 minutes
Phase 3:
Session 1
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
20 minutes
- Senior Advisors Introduce Unit 1 Professional Learning goals, purpose, and objectives to advisors with coaching and support from Advising Coordinators and Associate Director.
- Call to Action – Alternative Professional Learning presentation.
- Senior Advisors explain the goal that departmental training will implement professional learning opportunities that encourage collaboration and hands-on learning opportunities for various cohorts and skill levels.
Phase 3:
Session 2
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
45 minutes
- Senior Advisors facilitate discussion on the most frequently asked questions fielded by advisors through various advising cycles (P5: Relevance/Content Specific Needs)
- Advisors compile an itemized list of topics, categories, and sources for information/answers to the most frequently asked questions.
- Senior Advisors and Advising Coordinators share their lists and add new areas identified from these expanded discussions.
Activity:
Observations
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
Ongoing
- Advisors schedule observations of advising sessions (in-person, virtual, phone, and email) for advisors, senior advisors, and advising coordinators 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.
- Advisors add to brainstormed list from Unit 1: Module 3: Session 2
Phase 3:
Session 3
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
30 minutes
- Senior Advisors conduct a general overview of Professional ePortfolios while 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
Phase 3:
Session 4
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
25 minutes
- Senior Advisors, Advising 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.
Phase 3:
Session 5
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
30 minutes
- Walk-and-talk/Discussion prompt: What are some digital solutions to FAQs?
- Discuss various media (video, images, screenshots) that could be used to answer 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.
Phase 3:
Session 6
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
1 hour, 45 minutes
- Advisors select their ePortfolio platform.
- Advisors sign up and publish their homepage with the guidance and support of Senior Advisors and Advising Coordinators.
- Active engagement in a technical skills workshop where support is available throughout the web presence publication process.
Phase 3:
Session 7
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
25 minutes
Walk-and-talk/Discussion prompt: What frustrations are you experiencing as you create your ePortfolio? What are you excited to learn to do?
- 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.
Phase 3:
Session 8
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
2 hours, 45 minutes
- Active, group and/or independent lab time to provide ongoing individual and group support throughout the set up process of an ePortfolio.
- Advisors make choices regarding basic navigation and begin planning menu considerations.
- Each Advisor publishes an About me page to share with Senior Advisors, Advising Coordinators and Associate Director.
Phase 3:
Senior Advisors
Ongoing
Senior Advisors further develop their ePortfolio through co-learning and coaching as a guide on the side through while creating additional content ideas for their ePortfolios.
Phase 3:
Advising Coordinators
Ongoing
Advising Coordinators continue further development of their ePortfolio through co-learning and coaching as a guide on the side through while creating additional content ideas for their ePortfolios.
Phase 3:
Session 9
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
45 minutes
- Advisors present their ePortfolios to one another.
- Advisors, Senior Advisors, and Advising Coordinators make notes to post feed-forward to their teammates.
- Advisors share navigation thoughts and ideas with the team.
Phase 3:
Session 10
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
45 minutes
- 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.
- Advisors will submit a link to their published eP on their team Trello board for future reflection and feed-forward.
Phase 3:
Session 11
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
40 minutes
- Pair-and-share/Discussion prompt: What challenges may student-workers face when presented with this Introduction to Professional Learning: ePorfolios
- Pairs share potential challenges and brainstorm ways to support student-workers as everyone learns together.
- Each Advisor selects one of the top challenges to research solutions which they will share with their Advising Cohort within a Teams Chat.
Phase 3:
Session 12
Audience:
Advisors
Time:
50 minutes
- 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.
The Advisor That Cares 