Implementing a Comprehensive School Counseling Program

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Implementing a Comprehensive School Counseling
Program

• A link to the current educational reform movement
  emphasizing achievement and success
• Judy Kuse, DPI Counseling Consultant , Jan 2009

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Current Trends In School Counseling

• ASCAs National Standards and Model
• American School Counselor Association
• Transforming School Counseling Initiative
• Education Trust DeWitt Wallace
• Standard e
• WDGM update and revision
• State Models for School Counseling
• Results-based School Counseling

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NEW WI Comprehensive School Counseling Model
(WCSCM) Sections

• Program Implementation
• Training
• Student Standards
• Benchmarks at 4, 8, and 12
• Accountability / Evaluation

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Rationale for a Comprehensive School Counseling
Program

• A comprehensive school counseling program is an
  integral component of the schools academic
  mission. Comprehensive school counseling
  programs, driven by student data and based on
  standards in academic, career and personal/social
  development, promote and enhance the learning
  process for all students.  ensures equity and
  access to a rigorous education for all
  students  identifies the knowledge and skills
  all students will acquire as a result of
  the K-12 comprehensive school counseling
  program  is delivered to all students in a
  systematic fashion  is based on data-driven
  decision making  is provided by a
  state-credentialed school counselor

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WCSCM Delivery System

• Four Components
• Curriculum classroom, curriculum development,
  group activities, parent workshops
• Responsive Services individual small groups,
  crisis, consultations, referrals
• Individual Student Planning individual small
  group appraisal or advisement
• System Support professional development,
  consultation, collaboration, program management

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School Counseling Curriculum Three Domains

• Academic Domain
• Core Content Standards A, B, C
• A Students will acquire the attitudes,
  knowledge, and skills that contribute to
  successful learning in school and across the life
  span.
• B Students will develop the academic skills and
  attitudes necessary to make effective transitions
  from elementary to middle school, from middle
  school to high school, and from high school to a
  wide range of postsecondary options
• C Students will understand how their academic
  experiences prepare them to be successful in the
  world of work, in their interpersonal
  relationships, and in the community

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School Counseling Curriculum Three Domains

• Personal/Social Domain
• Core Content Standards D, E, F
• D Students will acquire the knowledge,
  attitudes, and interpersonal skills to understand
  themselves and appreciate the diverse backgrounds
  and experiences of others.
• E Students will demonstrate effective
  decision-making, problem-solving, and
  goal-setting skills.
• F Students will understand and use safety and
  wellness skills.

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School Counseling Curriculum Three Domains

• Career Domain
• Core Content Standards G, H, I
• G Students will acquire the self-knowledge
  necessary to make informed career decisions.
• H Students will understand the relationship
  between educational achievement and career
  development.
• I Students will employ career management
  strategies to achieve future career success and
  satisfaction.

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School Counseling Program impact on Students

• Academic Support
• Study Skills
• Test Taking Strategies
• Test Anxiety
• Tutoring
• Listening Skills
• Homework Completion Skills
• Proper Course Placement

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School Counseling Program impact on Students

• Personal/Social Support
• Character Education/Citizenship
• Bullying/Harassment Intervention
• Peer Mediation/Conflict Resolution
• Asset Development
• Positive School Climate
• Critical Thinking Skills
• Diversity Skills

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School Counseling Program impact on Students

• Career
• Student, Parent, Counselor Educational Career
  Conference
• Individual Learning Plan
• Increased sequence of Career/Technicaleducation
  courses
• Fewer undecidedsProvide purpose and
  direction for students

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Comprehensive School Counseling

• As students understand themselves, explore the
  world around them and establish goals for their
  futures, they begin to see why an education is
  important. They no longer attend school simply to
  receive a diploma or avoid truancy. Instead,
  students understand the connection between
  success in school today and success in their
  lives and careers tomorrow.

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The Answer For

• Who am I?
• Where have I been?
• Where am I going?
• What will I need to get there?
• How can I help myself?
• Who can help me and how?
• How can I change when change is required?

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Reduce Failure

• Highest failure rates in K-12 education
• Grade 9
• Highly correlated to dropping out of high school
• Some factors
• Failure to connect to goals after high school
• Failure to enroll in exploratory or CTE courses
• Failure to connect with an adult in school
• Failure to transition to new environment
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  SREB ECS

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Parent and Student Educational/Career Conferences

• Conferencing is a process that involves
  activities planned and directed by school
  counselors that assists students in planning,
  monitoring, and managing their own learning, as
  well as, their personal and career development.
  Through these activities, students are encouraged
  and given opportunities to set and evaluate their
  educational and career goals and develop their
  Individual Learning Plan that will help them
  achieve their educational, career and life goals.

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P/S Conference Benefits

• Students take responsibility for their future
• Students and parents gain insight into students
  growth and development
• Parents feel more informed and involved
• Students and parents are motivated to be involved
  earlier in post-secondary planning
• Student apprehension about school and future
  goals is reduced
• A connection is developed between school,
  parents, and students to ensure academic success

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Individual Learning Plan

• Students will investigate the inter-relationship
  of educational achievement, life goals, career
  planning, training and placement evaluate the
  present job market and analyze predictions of
  future trends at local, regional, state, national
  and global levels and propose career options
  based on their Individual Learning Plan.

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Individual Learning Plan

• Learning Record versus Learning Plan
• Traditional Four Year Plan
• A format that serves as a learning record and
  looks toward the past
• Individual Learning Plan
• A format that identifies what is to be achieved
  and looks toward the future

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Four Year Plan
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Individual Learning Plan
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Individual Learning Plan

• ILPs meet benchmarks within the Model Academic
  Standards for school counseling
• ILPs take into account what happens to students
  outside the walls of the school building
• ILPs can provide a process and product for
  students to use that opens them up to unique
  educational and career opportunities

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Sample ILP Benchmarks

• B.1 Apply the skills necessary to improve
  learning and make successful academic transitions
• B.8.1.2 Apply critical thinking skills for making
  successful academic transitions
• E.1 Apply self-knowledge in the decision-making
  or goal-setting process
• E.8.1.1 Develop an action plan to achieve short-
  and long-term goals
• H.1 Attain educational achievement and
  performance levels needed to reach personal and
  career goals
• H.8.1.5 Develop an individual learning plan to
  enhance educational achievement and attain career
  goals

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ILP Components

• Curricular Domains required
• Academic
• Career
• Personal/Social
• Program of Study required
• Portfolio / E-Portfolio Highly suggested

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Curricular Domains

• Establish learning and/or developmental goals in
  the three domains including action plans and
  review
• Academic
• Plan of Study achievement attendance etc.
• Career
• Cluster pathway program of study experiential
  education etc.
• Personal/Social
• Peer family friends organizations community
  etc.

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Summary

• Implementation of the New Wisconsin Comprehensive
  School Counseling Model will be valuable to all
  students in planning for their futures and will
  involve parents in the decision making process!
• Questions? Contact your school counselor
• For more information http//dpi.wi.gov/sspw/couns
  l1.html