Crafting Successful Advisor Training and Development Programs

Crafting Successful

Advisor Training and Development

ProgramsMaura Reynolds

Director of Academic AdvisingHope College

Holland, MichiganAugust 2013

Know the audience Who needs this information?

Who wants this information? Why is this information

important? How can I make this

information attractive & interesting to the audience?

Presenter? Teaching & learning center?

Plan What outcome/s do I intend? What resources I can used? What’s a good time (time of

day/term)? Material given beforehand?

Handouts during session? Posting material?

Setting (computer lab, classroom)?

Food/announcement

Model Active Learning

How can I support active learning?

How can I blend theory and practice?

How can participants be involved?

Other issues Names matter (??training-

development-workshop-update-session??)

Organize tell them what we’re going to talk

about then tell them then remind them what we told them

Short attention spans (variety = key to sustain interest)

Ask what went well & what didn’t (keep it short)

Activity break

Teaching is less about what the

teacher does and more about what the teacher gets the students to

do.

Purposes of Teaching

to inspire to challenge to present information

Fine line between providing needed

informationandoverwhelming advisors

or suggesting that the focus of

advising is rules.

As we plan, let’s use the same model

NACADA uses for the concept of academic

advising

Let’s use the expertise and experience of those in this

room and begin

planning…