Hey, Nik.
What's up? How are you doing?
I'm really good.
Have you been, Esteban?
I've been great. Thanks for asking.
I wanted to get straight into this
because since
I know you're the head of the Achieving
the Promise Academy,
I was on the website earlier
today, and I was reading on
embedded coaches
and coaching for course success.
So my first question is,
how do I register for that?
Yeah!
I'm so glad you're thinking
about proactively registering
for a class for the coach.
So here at MC in
some of the historically harder
to pass
courses, courses
in disciplines like biology,
chemistry, math, English.,
you can register for a class
with an embedded academic coach.
If you go to the schedule classes
and you check the advanced search option,
you can check a box
that say, "ATPA Support".
And that's going to tell you
for that semester
all the sections
that come with an embedded academic coach
Now, that coach is not the person
who's teaching your class,
you have a professor in that class.
But the embedded
academic coach is going to support
students in that particular course
in order to help you
to be able to succeed in that class.
Okay.
So how does an embedded coach actually
help the student?
Yeah.
So depending on the course,
they're going to do different things
that are going to help you
to be able to succeed.
But overall, embedded
academic coaches are content experts
who taught that class before
but have also been trained in
academic coaching approaches.
So they're going to help you
to keep up
with the course
goals and deadlines,
hone study skills, use academic planning
tools like a calendar to help you
manage your time better in the course.
They can help you prepare for exams,
they can help
you work on different assignments.
And if you start to feel like you're
falling behind in the class
or you need some additional help
keeping on track,
they're going to help you adapt,
figure out what's working,
what's not working.
Maybe connect
with other resources
like a tutor or to reach out
to get some support in the course
so that you can stay on track to succeed.
How would I meet with them?
You know,
I mean,
you said they're embedded
in the classes now.
How do I meet with them
if I'm with class, what does embedded
even mean? Yeah.
So the coach comes
with the class
and they're going to start off
this semester.
By introducing themselves to you.
If you're in person,
they're going to stop
by during the first week of class,
explain what academic coaching is
and what kind of support they offer
in that particular course.
If you're in the virtual environment,
you can start by your Zoom meeting,
and then they usually have
a weekly coaching session
that you can go to.
And so, again,
it depends on the class,
what you're going to do
in those coaching sessions.
But it's a weekly opportunity
for you to meet with the coach
outside of class.
Or sometimes they come to your class
to help you work on
what you need to learn in the class
and how to learn it better.
The other thing a coach is going to do
is to reach out weekly
and give you tips
and reminders
of how
to keep up with the course deadlines.
What's coming up next week?
Ways to make the most of empty resources.
So you definitely want to read
those weekly coach updates as well.
So there's a couple of different ways
that their embedded academic coach
is going to be proactively reaching out,
and then you can come
to their coaching sessions
to get that benefit of meeting
with an embedded coach too.
Okay.
So I personally struggle
with my virtual classes,
so even if I'm in a virtual class,
they'll still be available to help me.?
Yeah, I'd love to talk with you
more about that,
why you find virtual classes to be a bit
more of a challenge for you,
but you're not alone.
That is something we hear a lot.
I actually think that I learn
a little bit better in person myself.
The good news
is that many courses that are virtual
have embedded academic coaches.
So again,
search in the class
schedule for "ATPA Support" classes,
and even the ones that are remote
have coaches.
And typically those coaches
are going to offer
coaching sessions virtually each week
or sometimes coaching by appointment.
And so we do offer flexibility there.
But you can absolutely meet virtually
with a coach
when you're taking a virtual class.
And let's say I do
meet with
that coach virtually,
will I be meeting with that same coach
each semester?
Oh, that's a great question. Yeah.
So the Achieving the Promise
Academy overall,
we offer a couple of different types
of academic coaching,
so embedded
academic coaching
because they're those content experts,
they're just in that class, right?
This is someone who's taught biology
before, who's taught English before.
So they're going to work with you
in that English class.
You can take a different course
the next semester.
So if you just took chemistry.
You love having an embedded
academic coach,
and now you're getting ready
to take a biology course.
You can take a biology course
with a different coach
who is embedded
and a content expert in biology.
But if you're really looking more
for consistent support
across the semesters,
you can request
a personal academic coach
and they can be your coach
until you graduate or transfer,
and they're really going to help you
focus more on
how to succeed in college overall.
So we offer both options
and we'd encourage
all students
to take advantage of both options.
Thank you so much, Nik.
That actually set up
all my questions I had for you.
I look forward to working with the coach
this semester.
And again, thank you for helping me out.
Yeah, it's
always good to catch up
with you, Esteban.
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