Bruce M. Shore

The Graduate Advisor Handbook (eBook, ePUB)

A Student-Centered Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

You're advising students to help ensure their success-but who's going to advise you? With university budgets shrinking, graduate advisors find their workloads increasing. A professor emeritus of educational psychology at McGill University with more than forty years of advising experience and several teaching awards, Bruce M. Shore provides a practical guide here that demystifies the advisor-student relationship and helps both parties thrive. Emphasizing the interpersonal relationship at the heart of this important academic partnership, he reveals how advisors can draw on their own strengths to create a rewarding rapport. The Graduate Advisor Handbookmoves chronologically through the advising process, from the first knock on the door to the last reference letter. Along the way it covers:

• transparent communication
• effective motivation
• cooperative troubleshooting
• touchy subjects, including what to do when personal boundaries are crossed and how to deliver difficult news-with sample scripts to help advisors find the right words for even the toughest situations

A valuable resource, The Graduate Advisor Handbookhas the cool-headed advice and comprehensive coverage that advisors need to make the advising relationship not just effective but also enjoyable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780226011783
• Artikelnr.: 58754652

Autorenporträt

Bruce M. Shore is professor emeritus of educational psychology in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University. He has been recognized for his graduate advising and other teaching by his faculty's Distinguished Teaching Award, the university's David Thomson Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching & Supervision, and the Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and by the Canadian Committee for Graduate Students in Education (CCGSE) Mentorship Award. Shore is a fellow of the American Educational Research Association. He lives in Montreal and winters in Tucson, Arizona