Identify and Assign Roles for AdultsDescription
It is crucial to identify monitoring roles and to assign responsibility to adults who will oversee the monitoring process and directly monitor student progress. It is necessary that each student report to at least one adult who has access to the student's portfolio and can monitor his or her progress.
Things to Consider
Adults will need professional development to become familiar with the monitoring process. The monitoring process should be consistently implemented to ensure that all students have the same opportunity to successfully complete their graduation portfolios. It is important to provide professional development for the adults who are responsible for reviewing the graduation portfolio to help ensure this consistency and fairness.
Tools
Changing Systems to Personalize Learning: The Power of Advisories
Advisories are one model to use for monitoring student progress in putting together their graduation portfolio. This handbook on Advisories was written by The Education Alliance at Brown University.
It describes the design, function, rationale, and research behind advisories and provides guidance on developing advisories in a school. It also includes samples, rubrics, team assessments, and other useful materials.
