Info re: Session #4 (Pathway WorkshoP)

1. SGA-201: YEAR 2 PATHWAY
Session #4: Pathway Workshop

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Options for Session #4
Whole group, with stations
Small group meeting
Individual meeting

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Suggestions for Any Option
Before beginning the Pathway Workshop session…
• Ensure that graduate students have already:
- completed online session #1 for SGA-201
- completed the SGA Quiz in session #2
- attended in-person session #3 (or made up the work)
• Require graduate students to upload a full DRAFT Pathway in
advance, including tracker files
During the Pathway workshop session…
• Share individual SGA quiz scores individually
• Have an exit slip and clearly-defined outcome
• (Optional) Allow PIA for anybody producing a proficient DRAFT
Pathway well in advance

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What We’ve Learned about Group Meetings
Strengths:
• Provides opportunity
for peer-to-peer
Pathway review
• Allows for
differentiation w/ grad
students’ progress
and Pathway type
Challenges:
• Reviewing Pathway
files alone is NOT
enough, need to also
review tracker
• Potentially difficult to
review all Pathways at
the right level of detail
and depth
• Not always ideal for
grad students in the
non-core teaching
placements

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Suggestions For How To Structure Group Meetings
Grad students should:
• Receive differentiated support during the session, for example
- Station for those didn’t earn a proficient score on the SGA quiz
- Station for those who need to complete the assessment template
- Station for those those building out their trackers
• Know when they are “finished” with each work product
- Consider the use of differentiated checklists or exit tickets to guide
graduate students toward completing a given “station” or work product
• (note: to set grad students up for success, prior to the session, you should
email out instructions for how to prepare, what to expect, and how time will
be allocated)

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What We’ve Learned about One-on-One Meetings
Strengths:
• Opportunity to ask
direct questions of
graduate student
• Allows for greater
tailorization of the exit
slip and follow-up
instructions
• Ideal for grad students
in the non-core
teaching placements
Challenges:
• Coordination needs to
be efficient, or it
becomes a tremendous
email lift to schedule
• Ongoing support
mechanisms need to
be well-defined, or it
becomes a further
email lift to continue
coaching GS after their
one-on-one meeting

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Suggestions For How To Structure 1-on-1 Meetings
Grad students should:
• Share their quiz scores, reflect on their performance on this
assessment, and ask any outstanding questions from the quiz
• Prepare a Pathway pitch where they have to narrate and
defend their their defensible plan
• Share any outstanding questions they have about their own
Pathway
• Walk through how they populated their tracker
• (note: to set grad students up for success, prior to the meeting,
you should email out instructions for how to prepare, what to
expect, and how time will be allocated)

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Deans = Wisdom + Experience
Deans have
extensive wisdom
and experience with
helping graduate
students create and
revise their Pathways
Reach out to your
Dean if you have
questions!