MPSEOC Counselor UpdatE
october 24, 2018
9 sites across montana

You Are Specially Invited To Present!
DEADLINE TO REGISTER |  FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2018
|  All 25 Montana Colleges and University MPSEOC Members are invited to present at this annual event!  |
|  Here is your chance to reach almost all Montana High Schools and most of the Montana High School Counselors in this one event!  |
|  9 Different Sites Across Montana  |

*Montana Colleges help support the costs of this event with a $200.00 Presentation Fee. 
Thank you for your support and help!


WHAT & WHEN IS THIS EVENT?

WHEN  |  This year's MPSEOC Counselor Update is scheduled for
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 from 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. 

WHAT  |  Important information about the Counselor Update process is outlined below. 
  • You Are Specially Invited To Present!   Please read all points carefully and let us know if you have any questions.  We are excited to have you a part of this annual event of connecting Montana's colleges and high schools.  Thank you for your team efforts and support of this Montana event!
  • Back Again!  Live Stream Of Questions  |  In an effort to better address questions in a more timely and efficient way, we will be once again offering an online live stream to enable counselors to ask you and your campus questions throughout the event.  Therefore, in order for this to work, we will be needing your representative to be available throughout this event to be able to answer questions when they pop up for your campus.  Thank you for your team efforts to help make sure we are getting counselors questions answered.   
 
This event has been a great way to reach the majority of counselors across the state each year.  We look forward to having your school a part of this information-sharing session once again.  We will be in touch with you again soon especially with some of you to get your help in making local arrangements (food, etc).  Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.  We appreciate all your team efforts to make this event happen each year.

REGISTRATION & PRESENTATION SUPPORT FEE ​

  • $200 Presentation Fee (This fee helps with the increasing technology, room, parking, catering, printing, etc. costs)
  • Registration  |  Deadline to Register is October 5, 2018
  • Payment  |  You are welcome to pay with a credit card in the online registration form, or you are welcome to mail a check to:   MPSEOC, P.O. Box 7547, Missoula, MT, 59707.  Thank you!  

update your campus page

  • EACH YEAR WE SHARE A 1-PAGE OVERVIEW OF EACH OF THE CAMPUSES AT THIS EVENT. 
    WE NEED YOU TO REVIEW LAST YEAR'S PAGE IN THE FOLLOWING LINK, AND EMAIL US YOUR CHANGES. ​
  • Update Your Page In The Printed Packet   |  This is a copy of last year’s packet that we will need to update for this year. 
    • PREVIEW LAST YEAR'S PRINTED BOOK & YOUR CAMPUS PAGE  |  Linked below or visit:  @  http://www.montanacolleges.com/uploads/1/7/0/6/17069952/2017_counselor_update_book_._final._lr.pdf  
    • Submit Changes  |  Deadline to submit changes is October 5, 2018
      • If you have changes from last year, please email us your changes to this page by no later than Friday, October 5, 2018.  These changes can be sent to us in an email, but please be as clear as possible on what changes you would like made.  ​In order to meet printing deadlines for this book, we will need your changes submitted before this date.  We will use what you had from last year if we do not receive any changes.  Thank you for your team efforts on updating this book for counselors!
      • EMAIL CHANGES TO YOUR LAST YEAR PAGE TO:  Amy.Leary@MontanaColleges.com   |  If you have any questions or need help, please call 406.531.3531.  Thank you!

WHERE TO PRESENT?

​We will be broadcasting the Update to the following areas:
  • Billings
  • Bozeman
  • Glasgow
  • Great Falls
  • Havre
  • Helena
  • Kalispell 
  • ​Miles City
  • Missoula 
You may present at the site that is most convenient for you.  We will be sending you a more detailed confirmation packet with exact location, parking, etc. depending upon which site you choose to attend. 

WHO SHOULD PRESENT?

MPSEOC would like to continue this event as an opportunity for counselors to hear from your campus Directors, as counselors really appreciate this connection.  However, if that is not possible, most counselors really care that they get accurate information from a campus professional.  If the Director-type person is not available on your campus, please select another staff member who will be the most knowledgeable and feel comfortable presenting on the video conference.

HOW TO PRESENT?

Presenting Model  |  Share Your Campus’s Top 5 Updates – After reviewing much feedback on how we can create a more efficient, engaging way to share updates, we have a few recommendations for sharing these presentations.  Instead of reading your handout or trying to mention everything on your campus, counselors have shared that they would appreciate a more outlined approach in your presentation.  Therefore, we ask everyone to share your “TOP 5” points about your campus.  these points may be any five categories you feel are most important.  However, we would like you to clearly outline the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, points in your presentation.  We will also complement this new model by having a “TOP 5” outline for counselors to take notes of your five important points while you are talking (in addition to your printed campus page.)  

As you create your “TOP 5” list of updates, please keep in mind that there have been many special requests by counselors across the state to make sure you include your major scholarship deadlines in this presentation and/or on your sheet of information. 
  • Each campus will have 5-7 minutes to present information about the campus and programs. In an effort to streamline the process and make it most useful for counselors, we am including a list of recommended topics that you should be sure to cover (see linked below).  Please spend some time thinking about these topical areas and planning your presentation to focus on your “TOP 5 Updates.” 
  • Based on feedback from previous years, counselors really appreciate when you focus on what makes your campus different.  That is, what is a “typical” student and what programs are most popular?  
  • Give the counselors some talking points that they will remember, and points they can use with their students. 
  • Also, counselors would prefer if you share more than just the information they will be receiving on the handout.  You are welcome to distribute any information that you think counselors would find helpful, but we would ask you to use the “TOP 5 Update” approach (linked below) to make it more clear.  
  • IMPORTANT REMINDER  |  In order to keep within our agenda time, we will be holding each presenter to their presenting time limit.  Being that it is a very long day for counselors to listen to everyone’s updates, we do not want to go over on time.  Please feel free to use your cell phone as your own timer, as we have to keep everyone on time as we have over 30 presenters, and every minute counts.  Thank you for being conscientious about your timing.