Advisory in Urban High Schools

Kate Phillippo evaluates the practice of having teachers also serve as advisors, tasked with providing social-emotional support to students. Through an in-depth survey of teacher-advisors at three different urban high schools, she examines the different ways in which advisors interpret and carry out the role and the outcomes for students.

Auteur
Kate Phillippo is an assistant professor in the Cultural and Educational Policy Studies Department in the School of Education at Loyola University Chicago, USA.

Contenu

1. Advisory: A View into Expanded Teacher Roles 2. "Very Nice, but not Very Helpful": The Education Profession's Divergent Representations of Teachers' Social-Emotional Support Responsibilities, 1892-2011 (With Beth Wright) 3. Advisor Role Structure: How Schools Support or Undermine Expanded Teacher Roles 4. Consistency and Variation in Teachers' Implementation of the Advisor Role 5. The Toolbox and How Teachers Used It: Individual Characteristics that Explain Differences in Advisor Role Enactment 6. Occupational Hazards and Innovation: Teachers' Responses to the Advisor Role 7. Tying it All Together: Lessons about Formally Expanded Teacher Roles, Teachers Advising Students, and Teachers Providing Social-Emotional Support Appendix A. Teacher Interview Participants, Sorted by School Appendix B. Overview of Research Methods