New Advisor Training and Development DVD - available Fall, 2008!

Filmed this summer at Temple University, the DVD ’s 10 advising scenes were suggested by NACADA Commission and Interest Group members.   All of these “vignettes” feature real students and professional and faculty advisors as they deal with important advising issues faced on today’s campuses.  Suggested discussion questions at the end of each three minute scene provide viewers with starting points for conversations on how these topics relate to their own campus policies and procedures.

Training DVD scenes:

• Scene 1: Adult learner returning to college
• Scene 2: Lack of progress
• Scene 3: Upset transfer student
• Scene 4: Advisor error
• Scene 5: First-generation student
• Scene 6: Student complaint
• Scene 7: Student with personal issues
• Scene 8: Advising a student athlete
• Scene 9: Faculty advisor and FERPA privacy issues
• Scene 10:  Proactive parenting

Order Number: DCD01A                    

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DCD01A - Foundations of Academic Advising CD 1: What is Academic Advising?

Foundations of Academic Advising CD 1: What is Academic Advising? lays the groundwork for academic advising. While the primary target audience for this first CD in the planned Foundations series is new advisors, it will be equally useful to advisors who have been working in the field but who have never had opportunity to become acquainted with the full scope of foundational advising information in a single-piece, coherent, sequenced (curriculum) format. The information presented is "generic" (applicable to any campus setting) rather than institution-type specific. This audio-visual CD will particularly appeal to anyone looking for something beyond the traditional text-only format. Ten-minute modules also make excellent tools for group professional development and discussion-starters.

ISBN No. 978-1-935140-40-5

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Introductory Video Segment by Virginia Gordon

Four Content Modules:

Module 1: History & Definitions of Academic Advising

• Terry O'Banion and Burns Crookston encourage a move from Prescriptive to Developmental approach
• Various proposed definitions of academic advising - what they have in common
• Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) Standards and Guidelines for Academic Advising
• NACADA's Statement of Core Values of Academic Advising

Module 2: Process & Content of Academic Advising

• Academic advising as a teaching/learning process in which advisors use conceptual, informational and relational skills
• The Curriculum of academic advising: What do advisors teach?

Module 3: Pedagogy & Outcomes of Academic Advising

• Pedagogy: the art, science, or profession of teaching . How does that relate to advising?
• Outcomes: what we expect students and academic advisors to know [cognitive dimension], be able to do [skills dimension], and value/appreciate [affective dimension] as a result of participating in the academic advising experience

Module 4: Academic Advising on Your Campus - Explore your:

• Organizational Model
• Delivery System
• Philosophical Approach
• Goals & Objectives
• Professional Development Opportunities
• System of Rewards

"In addition to being valuable for advisors, this CD will also be useful to Administrators who might be trying to help others on their team to understand the importance of advising."

 - Jo Anne Huber (University of Texas at Austin)

Order Number:  DCD01B

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DCD01B - Foundations of Academic Advising CD 2:  Academic Advising Delivery Models

”Organizational structure is the framework for delivering advising services to students. As such, it is one of the important building blocks for an effective advising program, regardless of whether the program is defined at the department, college, campus, or institutional level" (Pardee, 2004). This CD explains the seven most widely used advising delivery models (self-contained, faculty only, satellite, total intake, dual, split, supplementary) and discuss why they are an important consideration when assessing, evaluating or re-evaluating any advising system.

ISBN No. 978-1-935140-41-2

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Two Content Modules

Module 1: Understanding the Seven Basic Models

• Three basic types of organizational structures: Centralized, Decentralized, and Shared
• Seven Basic Delivery Models: Self-Contained, Faculty Only, Satellite, Supplementary, Split, Dual, and Total Intake
• Advantages and Challenges of each model
• Usage of each model at various institutional types

Module 2: Choosing an Academic Advising Delivery Model

• Three crucial question to ask to determine the appropriate model for a particular institution
• Variables to consider in selecting an appropriate organizational structure
• Determining the effectiveness of the organizational structure

Order Number:  DCD01C

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“As America’s ethnic and racial demographics continue to shift, not only on college campuses but throughout the nation, it is essential that administrators and practitioners prepare to effectively deliver cross-cultural services. Professionals of all ethnic and racial backgrounds need to gain multicultural awareness and multicultural competence” (Gilbert, 2005). This CD, along with its accompanying Pocket Guide, have been developed to assist in this process by addressing informational material, conceptual theories, and relational skills that relate to, first, development of intracultural competency, and then, by extension, to intercultural competency. Includes a series of Reflection Questions designed to assist advisors in cultural competency development.  PREVIEW:   (Text)

ISBN No. 978-1-935140-42-9

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Three Content Modules

Module 1: Informational Material

• Topical Terminology
• The Anthropocentric-Cosmocentric Worldview Continuum
• Ethnocentrism / Ethnorelativism

Module 2: Conceptual Theories

• Identity Development theories
• Individual response to cultural intersection
• Societal response to cultural intersection
• Amalgamation theories

Module 3: Relational Skills

• Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity
• Monochronic / Polychronic time orientation
• High-context / Low-context communication
• Personal space needs