An Advisor's Role

Many of a CED&P faculty advisor's responsibilities serve to support the work you are already doing as a teacher in the classroom. As a faculty advisor, you will use CED&P's program to help you as a teacher both in and outside of the classroom.

Role And Responsibilities

Enrich Your Teaching

As a CED&P faculty advisor, one of your primary objectives is to consider how to integrate CED&P into your teaching and bring us into your classroom. You have to develop a personal approach that encompasses the purpose CED&P serves at your school, your goals as a teacher, and the delegated responsibilities of your students. You also have to consider the ways you will incorporate aspects of our program into your implementation while aligning with your school's philosophy and culture as well as local or state initiatives.

Support Your Work In The Classroom

Many of the responsibilities of serving as a faculty advisor complement those of a teacher. You will use CED&P's programs to support or enhance what you are already doing in the classroom in order to improve educational outcomes.

Standards Alignment

Leverage CED&P's programs to align your classroom instruction to national curriculum standards such as the Common Core State Standards Initiative or the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Gifted Education Standards as well as meet local mandates.

21st Century Skills

Prepare your students for their future careers by teaching relevant 21st Century Skills. Through CED&P activities, offer your students opportunities to demonstrate their mastery of concepts taught in the classroom and apply their 21st Century Skills to the real world.

Small Group Engagement

Engage your students in a small group learning context. Reinforce students' abilities to successfully navigate small group dynamics, provide opportunities for students to develop stronger bonds within a smaller pod, and allow for incremental student leadership.

Career Preparation

Generate career preparation awareness amongst your students and facilitate goal setting. Reinforce essential career concepts in your teaching. Provide business-based learning opportunities such as guest speakers, field trips, research, activities, and projects.

Enhance professional development through facets of your faculty advisor role

Facets Of Faculty Advisor Role

These facets are opportunities for you to hone existing skills, develop new skills, and demonstrate your ability across a range of competencies:

MANAGER

Develop school's CED&P program strategy.
Manage the long term development of the school program.
Specify roles and responsibilities for student leaders.
Implement a systematic communication strategy to ensure all stakeholders are in the loop.
Maintain records including student roster, finances, emergency contacts, and etc.

FACILITATOR

Relay relevant information to appropriate parties.
Provide a reliable bridge for all stakeholders involved in your school program.
Source guest speakers or experts for students' research.
Involve other teachers or administrators in advisory roles.
Serve as coordinator of all CED&P activities at your school.

MARKETER

Articulate a coherent message to demonstrate the value of CED&P activities at your school.
Identify opportunities for increased visibility of your CED&P activities and achievements.
Develop a sustainable annual recruitment strategy for your school program.
Establish a process to share news with local press.

FUNDRAISER

Identify the level of support school administration may provide to your program.
Budget annual expenses of running your CED&P program.
Plan and execute fundraising activities.
Mobilize parents, family, and the community to support your program.

ANALYST

Incorporates competitive activities into classroom instruction and utilize them as measures of students' mastery of concepts.
Understand students' passion and ability to assign appropriate roles on a team.
Establish achievable goals and set measurable goalposts.
Review performance indicators from evaluations.

What We Teach

We believe that education is the best path to helping students unlock what they want to be when they grow up and how to successfully achieve their dream careers, so our activities are designed with this focus in mind.

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