Chapter 12: Teacher Advisories - A Proposal for Change

Teacher Advisories in middle school is a good way for students to reflect. It should be up to the students whether they want to reflect on school work or themselves. It was a really good idea to have advisory days been an all day activity. This will ensure that students are getting to know their advisor and that the advisor is getting to know his or her students. Getting students moving around and making connections is really the key to advisory days. Having students do what they want to do, maybe even based on their specific intelligence (bodily, logic, music, etc.) they can feel more comfortable about themselves. If I had advisory days in my middle school I would have definitely looked forward to it and maybe would have made better connections with the students in my class.