Welcome New Counselors and Graduation Coaches

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Welcome New Counselors and Graduation Coaches

• Imagine Success for Each Student, and Make It
  Happen!

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Overview Delivery Systems

• American School Counselor Association (ASCA)
• National Model for School Counseling Programs
• connect school counseling with current
  educational reform movements
• emphasize student achievement and success
• standards based in 3 domains (academic/career/pers
  onal social)
• 4 delivery systems
• School Guidance Curriculum
• Individual Student Planning
• Responsive Services
• System Support and Non-program Responsibilities

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Mission Statement

• The mission of the Comprehensive School
  Counseling and Guidance program is to enable all
  students regardless of individual differences to
  acquire the educational preparation, occupational
  skills, and social awareness necessary to reach
  their highest potential in an ever-changing
  society.

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Counseling and Graduation Coaches Programs

• Promote development for EVERY student
• academic
• career
• personal/social

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Programs in Paulding County

• Counseling Resource Management
• Leadership Teaming
• Assessment Collaboration
• Technology Data-Driven Decisions

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Delivery System Components

• Guidance Curriculum (planned)
• Classroom guidance instruction, interdisciplinary
  curriculum, group guidance activities which
  provide developmental comprehensive guidance
  program content to all students grades.
• GCadvisement and transition projections,
  intentional/target groups, parent workshops,
• vertical teams of teachers, etc.

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Delivery System Components

• Individual Student Planning
• Assists students and parents in development of
  academic and career plans
• Advisement
• Grade Talks
• Attendance Talks
• Test Talks
• Behavior Talks
• GCCase-managed students

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Delivery System Components

• Responsive Services (not planned)
• Addressing life choices which impact academic and
  personal/social development
• Addressing the immediate concerns of students
• Consultation with staff
• RTI meetings when needed
• Crisis counseling
• Peer mediation
• Conflict resolution
• Referrals to outside agencies

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Delivery System Components

• System Support Program, staff and school support
  activities
• Collaboration about counseling program with
• administration
• Testingwill be full time during state-mandated
  testing, except for high school counselors
• Assisting to build master schedule and IC
  schedules
• Data Analysis and Utilization Plus Reporting
• Monthly Reports
• Work Management System for Graduation Coaches
• Advisory council/committee member
• District counseling committee
• Professional Learning
• Trainings
• Fair share duties and responsibilities

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Counseling Website
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Website Home Page
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Help Topics
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Tanner Behavioral Health
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Professional Resources
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Counselors Home and Cell Numbers

• After August 13th meeting we will have a
  comprehensive list of everyones home and cell
  numbers.

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School Crisis Response Guide
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Professional Resources is Secured Site
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User Name and PasswordOnly for Administrators
and Counselors

• PCSD_Counselor
• 4TheChildren

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Testing and Assessment
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Advisement Program
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Elementary
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Middle
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High School
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DFCS Training

• Mandatory Training
• Notebook of all required training information
• 3 PowerPointsElementary, Middle, and High School
• Susan Goethe presents to bus drivers and lunch
  room personnel

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Portfolios

• Plan-one per school
• Submit an attachment via GroupWise without
  signatures
• Signature copy goes in portfolio notebook
• Every counselor submits a portfolio at the end of
  the school year and portfolios are submitted by
  school.

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Intentional Guidance(Non-negotiable)

• Minimum of one group (intentional guidance) for
  the year
• Intentional Guidance Action Plan
• Form completed and included in Portfolio
• Every counselor and graduation coach needs an
  action plan
• Every counselor and graduation coach needs a
  Power Point of one intentional guidance group
  included in portfolio

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Reminders

• Counselors Yearly Calendar (always a work in
  progress, so pencil in dates and watch carefully
  for changes
• Principal/Counselor Program Plan due September
  15.
• Mandated child abuse training for staff
  pre-planning or first couple of weeks of school
  (collaborate with principal
• Portfolio for all counselors with monthly reports
  This is where the data is reported and monitored.
• Character Educationdetermined at local school
  level
• Academic Advisement 5th - 6th transition, 8th
  9th transition, 9th (six-year plans), 10th, 11th
  (three-year plans, and Senior (post-secondary)
• Career Portfolios for students..begin in 8th
  grade
• Collaborative effort of MS Coach, HS Coach, 8th
  grade counselor
• At close of year hand carried to 9th grade
  counselor

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Parent Conferences

• Counselors must be present and facilitate any
  conferences that they have set up with parents
  and teachers (always follow guidelines of
  principal).
• Provide time, date, and location information
• Gather information from teachersgrades,
  attendance, behavior
• Observe student, if applicable
• Facilitate conference
• Introduction
• Purpose of Conference
• Discussion of data and details
• Summarize plan for the student

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Watch for 2007-20087

• Cluster counselor meetings
• Pearls of WisdomMentoring Group for New
  Counselors
• Continued updates/enhancements on website
• Operation Graduation at Middle and High School
  Levels

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More 2007-2008

• Advisement
• 5-6 Transition
• 8-9 Transition
• 9th Arena
• 10th Advisement Night
• 11th Arena
• 12th Parent Nights and Senior Letters
• Careers
• Career Portfolios for 8th grade students

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Our counseling program is a work in progress!

• Curriculum committee at all three levels is
  continuing to write and assess lessons.
• Elementary and Middle 6 per grade level
• High School 3 per grade level
• High School homeroom advisement lessons
• Web-site

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Our Lessons Utilize.

• Learning Focused Schools Strategies
• Collaboratively Planned

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Paulding County School District Elementary School
Guidance Curriculum ACTION PLAN 2005-2006
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Paulding County School District Classroom
Guidance Lesson Plan
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LEARNING-FOCUSED SCHOOLS
How do I think about, plan, and deliver
instruction so that students can learn it faster
and keep it longer?
Acquisition Lessons
Acceleration/ Previewing
Extending Refining Lessons
Planning Learning Units
How do I plan for the extending/refining level of
learning?
How can I use previewing to accelerate student
learning?
How do I plan an acquisition lesson?
How do I put it all together to plan a unit?

• Essential Questions
• Mini Lesson
• Thinking Skills Activities
• Compare/Contrast
• Classifying
• Constructing Support
• Analyzing Perspectives
• Induction
• Deduction
• Error Analysis
• Abstracting
• Sharing
• Reviewing for Mastery

• Essential Questions
• Activating Prior
• Knowledge and
• Motivational
• Launch
• Teaching Strategies
• Collaborative Pairs
• Distributed Guided
• Practice
• Graphic Organizers
• Mnemonic Devices
• Summarizing

• Unit Design
• Prioritizing
• curriculum
• Authentic
• Assessment
• Rubrics

• Content maps
• Vocabulary

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Essential Question

• What?
• Learning objective in the form of a question
• Why?
• Focus the lesson
• Communicate the objective
• Gather evidence of learning

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Word Map
What is it?
What is it like?
A conscious choice is made to know what it is
like to walk in someone elses shoes.
Others feelings
Understanding
Stress-relieving
empathy
Reduces conflicts
Student has just found out parents are
divorcing and middle school classmate offers
support.
Student has really studied for exams and does
not do well.
Student does not make the team and friend
acknowledges feelings.
Student feels left out of game at recess and
student walks over to talk to him/her..
What are some examples?
Acceleration and Previewing 2
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Advance Organizers

• Graphic Organizer
• Story Map
• Content Map

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What do I want my students to
know
understand
be able to do?
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Resources

• ASCA Book and Workbook
• DFCS Notebook and Video
• Group Counseling
• High School 101 and MS 101
• Peer Mediation
• Student Success Skills (Middle High)

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Pearls of Wisdom

• Our Mentoring Program for you
• Counselors List for 2008-2009 gives mentor/mentee
  information

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• Susan Goethe
• sgoethe_at_paulding.k12.ga.us
• 770-443-8003 ext. 10134
• 770-826-4320 (Cell)

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We welcome you!

• It takes each of us to make a difference for all
  of us. We are a 212 Culture
• Imagine Success for Each Student, and Make It
  Happen!
• Susan Goethe
• sgoethe_at_paulding.k12.ga.us
• 770-443-8003 ext. 10134
• 770-826-4320 (Cell)

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• Susan Goethe
• sgoethe_at_paulding.k12.ga.us
• 770-443-8003 ext. 10134
• 770-826-4320 (Cell)