Role of the Advisor

MYP advisory teachers are the Service as Action advisors for their students. The primary role of a Service as Action advisor is to facilitate, support, and help manage the Service Learning cycle for Service as Action initiated by the student to complete a Service as Action activity. Beyond face-to-face meetings and advisory time, most information that a Service as Action advisor communicates is on ManageBac.

A Service as Action advisor:

• Approves an SA activity, communicates with the student during the process, approves completion of the SA activity.

• Conducts two interviews with their students, once in the Fall and then the Spring term regarding student SA work and progress.

• Updates SA student progress on academic progress reports issued four-times a year.

• Shares pertinent information and handouts with students.

A Subject Teacher:

Is required to connect the curriculum they teach with Service as Action opportunities for students. At least one unit of study, from any subject, will have a direct link and clear outcome for completing Service as Action in every year of the MYP.

An MYP subject teacher:

• Provides ideas and/or specific tasks for students to complete Service as Action.

• Will brainstorm with students at the beginning of units to come up with Service as Action ideas.

• Uses the Service Learning cycle to promote Service as Action and student ownership of learning