Advisory

Our advisory credit supports the Chaffee County High School mission (to engage and educate students through innovative practices so they can make a positive impact in their community) by developing your executive functioning skills, personal well-being, interpersonal skills, and real world connections.

Advisory is also a forum to ensure we are engaging you in all of the ICAP (Individual Academic and Career Plan) skills required by the state of Colorado to graduate.

Activities in advisory will fall into these four buckets:

Executive functioning skills

• You will independently keep track of your belongings, schedules, and goals

• You will learn to manage your time and to balance multiple roles

• You will use critical thinking skills to make complex decisions

• ICAP quality indicators: Academic Planning, Employability Skills

Personal well-being

• You will practice setting short-term goals and checking in on them in a reasonable timeframe to maintain your long-term graduation goal and postsecondary goals

• You will learn to use Mindfulness to focus your thinking and regulate your emotions

• You will practice life skills that reinforce and build on skills introduced in Discovery (problem solving, anger management, effective communication)

• ICAP quality indicators: Self-Awareness, Postsecondary Options

Interpersonal skills

• You will engage in group activities

  • to develop community

  • to understand the role you play in group settings

  • to practice problem solving techniques

• ICAP quality indicators: Self-Awareness, Employability Skills

Real world connections

• You will learn about and discuss local, state, national, and international news events to understand contemporary issues and how they relate to our lives

• You will engage in real and simulated cultural and economic activities to understand what opportunities they are afforded as a community member

ICAP quality indicators: Career Awareness, Postsecondary Options, Environmental Expectations