by Jaime LittleOn February 15, Glenn Kepic hosted the latest segment of the UAC professional development training. The session consisted of reviewing advising vignettes from the NACADA training video “Scenes for Learning and Reflection: An Academic Advising Professional Development DVD.”
The scenarios offered the eight advisors who attended the opportunity to thoughtfully discuss and internally process their own experiences on situations relating to advising issues, including:
• Deficient academic progress (in UF terms, “tracking out of a major”)
• Transition problems among transfer students
• First generation students
• Students with personal issues (how to appropriately advise students in difficult life circumstances)
• Advisor errors
While other scenarios are available on the DVD, these five situations sparked interesting conversations among workshop participants, with personal experiences shared by all. Lou Powers from CLAS mentioned that this video could be extremely helpful in training Preview advisors as well as new advisors.
For seasoned advisors, the vignettes reminded us what not to do, as well as sparked discussion on how UF has put into place effective checks and balances to reduce potential problems or errors. With UF tracking requirements, Preview Prep, prerequisite checking on ISIS, First Year Florida, and training sessions such as this one, we can keep up-to-date on resources for students and continue to focus on best practices in advising.
If you are interested in utilizing this resource as a training tool, or would like to see more vignettes in the future, please let Glenn or anyone on the UAC Professional Development Committee know.
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