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Appreciative advising, in my mind,
is understanding the student.
It's understanding the student, getting the student to
talk to you, speak to you about their strengths
their weaknesses, therefore in that way you can get them
to tell you what their strengths and weaknesses are
and then you can then talk to them about careers
about majors, and about the courses that would be
appropriate for those majors, careers
and the student's interests.
In advising, you get to know the person,
you don't have to keep things on such an impersonal level.
When you're managing, sometimes you have to do that,
just to keep everything on an even keel.
When you're advising you can get to know the student, you
can give advice, you can listen, you can feel good about what
you're doing especially when you see that they've succeeded,
and you feel good that they feel confidence in you, that they
can come and talk to you when things are not going right.
If they didn't do so great, I ask them,
what went wrong this last semester,
are they still interested in the same major, same career.
I asked them what went wrong and how can we prevent that from
happening next semester.
At that point in time we start to talk about courses that
go with that major if they hadn't done well in
certain courses we might even talk about,
"Let's give it one more time and let's talk about
maybe changing the major if I can't see As or Bs."
3.3 is the goal for all of my students and we talk about that,
in certain majors it should be higher than that.
If you're teaching students how to be independent,
how to make decisions, that means they are learning,
therefore, you can't teach unless people learn from you,
if not you're just sprouting stuff.
Therefore, integrative learning, to me,
with appreciative advising, you're helping students to
learn how to be independent, how to choose a career that's
going to be right for them, how to recognize their strengths,
their weaknesses, therefore they are learning,
and they are learning how to be young adults,
and that's how advising and learning, really come together.
So what's in it for me?
Absolute satisfaction that I think I'm making a difference
in somebody's life, if I fix one student's life
or one student says, "Thank you you really helped me."
That's what's in it for me.
It's a passion, and we tell students, if you're going
to do something well you have to have a passion,
so if you're going to advise, this has to be a passion and
you have to be truly interested in the student as an individual
and what they want to do, and listen.
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