Professional Development Committee
Mini-Institutes
Planning Guide
- Choosing a topic, speaker, date: Topics may be
selected to appeal to guidance counselors, admissions counselors or both.
Individual speakers or panels have both been used in the past. The
Mini-Institutes are scheduled between April and June 2007. Public high
school guidance counselors need at least 60 days to process a professional
day request.
- Arrangements: Each Mini-Institute must have a
site coordinator to handle the booking of the room, registrations, and
mailing with the program details and directions to the site. Some hosts
also offer complimentary lunch and a tour of the campus following the
program.
- Publicity: NJACAC will advertise each
Mini-Institute through its newsletter, Intercom, emails, its website and
through a separate mailing to all NJ high school guidance directors, college
admissions directors, as well as the general membership. You may also send
out your own individual flyers to those individuals you would like to
invite.
- Deadlines: In order to allow for a
mid-February mailing of the brochure, all program proposals must be
submitted by February 11, 2008.
- Topics: a wide range of topics have been
offered in the past few years.
Preparing the Effective School
Profile
EOF Admissions
Preparing Classified and 504
Students to transition to the College Environment
College Counseling 101
Mock Admissions
Emerging Issues
Hot topics in College Admission
Writing Effective Recommendations
Using the ACT to Help Students
Succeed
Web Design for School Counselors
Academics and Athletics—How to
Counsel the Recruited Athlete
Counseling the Performer and the
Artist