Norms and Expectations for GTL (Advisory)
Respect
Confidentiality
Tolerance
Maturity
Expectations
Academics
Career
College
Community
Culture
- Listening to other's opinions
- Open-minded
- Value everyone
- Think about how your actions affect others
- Think about others first
- TALKING!! Watch your airtime (try to let others talk, speak up if you usually don't, and step back if you usually take the air space)
Confidentiality
- Safe space to tell secrets/keep secrets (as long as they don't involve someone getting hurt)
- Keep what you say to others as: kind, true, and necessary (avoid triangulation)
- Manilla folders with white printer paper to keep thoughts in
- Trust
Tolerance
- Watch what you say (someone unintentionally might hear it)
- Everyone is an individual unlike everyone else (not a stereotype or label)
- Jokes are great (as long as they are nonoffensive)
Maturity
- OTFD (Observations, Thoughts, Feelings, Desires) (ex. "I observed you talking about doing drugs, I think that you might hurt yourself or get arrested, I feel like you are too important to do that, and I desire you to find friends that won't push you into that)
- Role Models
Expectations
Academics
- Preparation/Planning for the week
- Communication strategies
- Help/ collaborate with school work
Career
- Produce resumes, cover letters, and references
- Letters of recommendation
- Interview techniques
- Being a professional
College
- Naviance
- College applications
- SAT prep and info
- ACT prep and info
- College visits
Community
- Community service
- Mentoring
- HTHNC community building
Culture
- HTHNC culture of appreciating others
- Cultural emersion days
- Setting norms, goals, attitudes, etc... for our school