ED404290 SP034707
Title: Teacher Advisory Groups: What, Why, How and How Successful?
Author(s): Ziegler, Suzanne
Author Affiliation: Toronto Board of Education (Ontario). Research
Dept.(SFO88005)
Source: Scope, v8 n1 Jun 93
Pages: 10
Publication Date: June 1993
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
Language: English
Document Type: Collected works--Serials (022); Information
Analysis (070)
Geographic Source: Canada; Ontario
Journal Announcement: RIEJUN1997
The Ontario
(Canada) Ministry of Education and the Toronto (Ontario) Board of
Education have suggested or mandated use of the teacher advisory
structure for grades 7 through 9. The establishment of teacher advisory
groups involves organizing teachers and students into small groups
to permit instruction and advising to be personalized. Their function
is to promote students' educational, personal, and social development.
Advisory groups often function as vehicles for delivering a guidance-type
curriculum to all students in a regular way. The educational agenda
emphasizes program planning (secondary and postsecondary) and the
social agenda emphasizes strengthening self-concept and peer group
relationships and offering "survival assistance." Skills
and characteristics of teacher-advisors are listed. Results of research
studies on teacher advisory groups at the middle school and secondary
school level are reviewed. The paper concludes that teacher advisory
groups can increase student motivation and achievement and can connect
adults and young people in ways that are genuinely educational and
community enhancing. (Contains 14 references.) (JDD)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees; Career Planning; *Educational
Counseling; Foreign Countries; *Individualized Programs; Junior
High Schools; Program Effectiveness; *School Guidance; Small Group
Instruction; Student Development; Teacher Participation; *Teacher
Role
Identifiers: Ontario
