Focus Areas I
This Focus Area encompasses grades, classes, and test-taking.
What is Academics?
Stress management and self-care fall under this Focus Area.
What is Health & Support?
The coaching structure is in this shape.
What is an ice cream cone?
The coaching structure is a plan or _____ for how to facilitate student interactions.
What is a roadmap?
Attitudes, behaviors, and strategies that facilitate success in school and the workplace, such as motivation, perseverance and self-control.
What are noncognitive skills?
This Focus Area is defined as successfully balancing school with competing priorities, such as family, work, etc.
What is Managing Commitments?
This Focus Area centers around a student's long-term vision of graduation.
What is Commitment to Graduation?
Advancing approaches fall along a spectrum from _______ to ________.
What is a spectrum from instructing to developing?
Asking questions to gain a holistic understanding of the student is this part of the coaching structure.
What is assessment?
This part of the coaching structure is both a facilitation and motivational tool that encourages students to follow through and stay on course to completion.
What is summarize to motivate?
A student's sense of belonging is associated with this Focus Area.
What is School Community?
This focus area prioritizes understanding what someone ultimately wants to do and how school fits into the picture.
What is career?
The following coach/advisor response is an example of _________
“Your willingness to ride the bus for over an hour to school takes determination and is a demonstration of your commitment to being a successful student.”
What is building motivation through delivering specific and positive feedback?What is delivering specific, positive feedback?
A basic frame includes:
1. Who I am
2. Context
3. ________
4. What we can do together
What is goal or intention?
The cone part of the structure represents the flow of the discussion, narrowing from assessment towards __________.
What is a point of action or advancement?
The following are assessment questions for this focus area:
-In terns of financial aid, while I'm not the expert, I am curious how clear you are on what to do and by when?
-In terms of managing your income and expenses with school, how is that going?
What is finances?
People who are lacking in this focus area tend to forget things, miss deadlines and lose track of important to-dos.
What is effectiveness?
Connect actions to student’s visions, values, or goals is part of this component of the coaching structure.
What is summarize to motivate?
The 4 components of assessing are:
-Ask initial assessment question to serve as a transition
-Review Progress since last meeting
-_______________________________________
-Identify topic(s) for discussion
What is assess student in relevant focus areas?
In coaching, you are encouraged to ask open ended questions and to avoid ___________ questions.
What are leading questions?
The 8 focus areas impact a student’s ability to _______ and get the most out of their school experience.
What is persist?
In order to support student's success, utilizing the 8 focus areas enables you to have a ________ picture of the student.
What is holistic?
Four examples of ways to advance students.
What are:
• Ask questions that challenge thinking.
• Brainstorm to generate options or new ideas.
• Clarify priorities.
• Break a goal down into doable steps.
• Share resources.
• Propose potential solutions.
• Help the student create a plan.
• Role-play a challenging situation.
• Provide guided skill development.
• Propose a new perspective.
• Develop a vision for the future.
• Link immediate actions to short- or long-term goals.
Name 2 of the 3 options to identify a topic for discussion.
What are hot topics, multiple choice, or back pocket topics?
The action of doing this is shown in research to enable better follow through.
What is write down or capturing a plan?