Academics
Center for Middle School Teaching & Learning
Teaching at Eaglebrook
Advisor Skills & Responsibilities
Skill Set
- Belief in and commitment to principles of school mission and values
- Appreciation for and interest in middle school students
- Ability to model exemplary adult behavior and school values
- Good Communication Skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills abilities
- Understanding of importance of prompt communication
- Ability to Plan and Organize
- Anticipate upcoming events
- Balance demands of class preparation and planning and advising
- Prepare advisees for upcoming events
- Knowledge of Adolescent Behavior
- Model fair and appropriate discipline and student interactions
- Basic understanding of child development and psychology
- Approachability
- Consistency
- Ability to follow policies and procedures consistently
- Cooperativeness
- Willingness to take direction and apply it
- Desire to work as part of a team and accept group decisions
Responsibilities
- Active support of the school's Mission
- Modeling of appropriate student conduct
- Advocate for students
- Individualize approach to each student
- Student Supervision
- In charge of supervising advisee’s academic work
- Monitor daily preparation and homework completion
- Advise on course selection
- Communicate with teachers and parents on student progress
- Help coordinate make up work when student is absent
- Initiate and organize advisee team meetings (lunch meetings) when necessary
- Help students develop age-appropriate life skills
- Personal hygiene
- Time management
- Inter-personal communications
- Mediate conflicts between students
- Mediate difficulties between teachers and advisees
- Assign appropriate consequences in discipline situations and communicate those to colleagues
- Model good practices
- Support and supervise Sixth Formers with their assemblies
- Read and apply information gained from memos and meetings
- Communicate information gained from your own experience to others (parents, administrators, and other faculty)
- Act as a liaison between parents and school, through frequent phone and written communication
- Support and advise other faculty in the execution of their jobs
- Complete necessary writing projects:
- Mid-terms comments
- Mid-Term Letters
- Term-End Comments, including residential life comment
- Responding to in-house and parental communications promptly
- Help school develop sound age appropriate curriculum
- Keep abreast of new developments in adolescent development
- Anticipate events and workload, maintaining a personal calendar
- Communicate with colleagues about necessary coverage
- Attend weekly Dorm and Full Faculty meetings
- Manage paperwork ( student memos and advisee record keeping)
- Participate in evaluation program
An advisors immediate supervisors for matters related to advising is his or her Dorm Head.
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