Developing, Managing, and Implementing a School Counseling Program

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• Developing, Managing, and Implementing a School
  Counseling Program

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Quiz

• A first step in developing a comprehensive
  program of services is to
• Examine the current program that is in place
• Let teachers tell you what they want the
  counselor to do
• Ask the principal what should be done first
• Needs assessments
• Are usually cumbersome and unnecessary
• Are an essential part of program planning
• Should be performed only to evaluate existing
  services

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Quiz

• A well-organized counseling program identifies
  goals and
• Expects the counselor to provide all related
  services
• Assigns responsibility to those who will provide
  services
• Designates all instructional services to teachers
• Websites, brochures, and speaking engagements are
• Information sources that detract from the
  counselors normal duties
• Lo-tech to high-tech strategies for providing
  counseling services
• Strategies for marketing counseling services

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Suggested Distribution of Counselor Time ()

• Elementary Middle High
• Guidance Curriculum 35-45 25-35 15-25
• Individual Planning 5-10 15-25 25-35
• Responsive Services 30-40 30-40 25-35
• System Support 10-15 10-15 15-20

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Counseling Activities

• Inappropriate activities
• Registering/scheduling new students
• Administering cognitive, aptitude and achievement
  tests
• Signing excuses for students who are tardy or
  absent

• Appropriate activities
• Designing individual student academic programs
• Interpreting cognitive, aptitude and achievement
  tests
• Counseling students with excessive tardiness or
  absenteeism

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Counseling Activities

• Inappropriate activities
• Performing disciplinary actions
• Sending home students who are not appropriately
  dressed
• Teaching classes when teachers are absent

• Appropriate activities
• Counseling students with disciplinary problems
• Counseling students about appropriate school
  dress
• Collaborating with teachers to present guidance
  curriculum lessons

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Counseling Activities

• Appropriate activities
• Analyzing grade-point averages in relationship to
  achievement
• Interpreting student records
• Providing teachers with suggestions for better
  study hall management

• Inappropriate activities
• Computing grade-point averages
• Maintaining student records
• Supervising study halls

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Counseling Activities

• Inappropriate activities
• Clerical record keeping
• Assisting with duties in the principals office

• Appropriate activities
• Ensuring student records are maintained in
  accordance with state and federal regulations
• Assisting the principal with identifying and
  resolving students issues, needs and problems
• Collaborating with teachers to present proactive,
  prevention-based guidance curriculum lessons

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Class Activity

• List several ways you would go about introducing
  your guidance services to
• Students
• Parents
• Teachers
• Administrators

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Class Activity

• Generate a list of the information you would
  include in an elementary, middle, or high school
  counseling program brochure

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Class Activity

• Design/Create a brochure for an elementary,
  middle, or high school counseling program