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What would you do if you had a student or advisee who:
- talks about how isolated they felt during COVID?
- expresses an inability to manage hybrid classes,
and worries about how this will affect college options? - seems less and less engaged, and whose grades have started going downhill?
- is caught sexting in study hall?
- is rumored to be drinking every weekend?
- has geometrical scratches on his or her arm?
- has a parent who is seriously ill?
- asks to change her lab partner to “someone who speaks English”?
- asks you to change her grade because her parents will “kill” her over a C?
- confides he’s in love with his roommate?
- is crying and asks to leave class?
- says s/he's “tired of having to educate white people”?
- is begging you to create an extra credit assignment to raise her grade from A– to A?
- tells you that their parent is really on them to do better now that
“you are actually going to school again”?
You will learn:
The Power of Deep Listening...
in teaching, in advising, in discipline.
in understanding the developing adolescent.
in connecting with students across differences in race, culture, gender,
and sexual orientation.
in identifying and helping students where listening is not enough—and knowing when and how to call for help.