Chapter 12:Teacher Advisories--A Proposal for Change

Chapter 12 was about the different things that we as teachers can do with our students to help make the connections that kids need to succeed. I agree with he Gatewood's criteria for the best advisory programs. The criteria includes making the programs a full-day, make them monthly and include a time where the teachers and the students are eating at the same time, and having teachers talking independently with each student. In one of the schools that I attended, the principle would schedule a lunch with each student every day. This made many of us feel like she cared about each of us as an individual. I also believe that the lists of potential activities was really helpful, however I think that the best possible activity would be one when teachers can combine the three types. If we could make each activity physical with reflections, and have it be a service activity everyone involved would make out better.