Creating a Culture of Connectedness through Middle School Advisory Programs

Autor/inn/en	Shulkind, Sarah Brody; Foote, Jack
Titel	Creating a Culture of Connectedness through Middle School Advisory Programs
Quelle	In: Middle School Journal (J3), 41 (2009) 1, S.20-27 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0094-0771
Schlagwörter	Middle Schools; Faculty Advisers; School Culture; Interpersonal Relationship; Social Networks; Mentors; Focus Groups; Measures (Individuals); Student School Relationship; Self Advocacy; Middle School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Messdaten; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Selbstbehauptung; Middle schools; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin
Abstract	Middle school reformers have widely promoted advisory programs as a way to strengthen connectedness at the middle level. Broadly defined, advisory programs are configurations in which an adult advisor meets regularly during the school day with a group of students to provide academic and social-emotional mentorship and support, to create personalization within the school, and to facilitate a small peer community of learners. This article defines the qualities of advisory programs and advisors that foster connectedness based on research at three diverse middle schools with successful advisory programs that can serve as models for other schools. The authors gave every advisor and student in each school a questionnaire designed to establish which advisories fostered high levels of student connectedness. The questionnaire helped the authors determine which students felt most connected, which advisories reported high levels of connectedness, and which advisors perceived the same levels of connectedness as their advisees. The authors selected the three advisories at each site with the highest levels of connectedness, and they interviewed the advisors, observed their advisories, and conducted focus groups with their student advisees. The authors discovered seven salient characteristics about advisors and advisory programs that fostered connectedness at all three sites. These characteristics are discussed in detail through the remainder of this article. (Contains 1 figure.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10