Students need guidance
in many areas of their lives, this is my top twenty reasons why schools need
counselors.
1.
Promote a positive school climate.
2.
Encourage
strong relationships with multiple faculty and staff members.
3.
Assist parents in providing proper guidance and
support for their children.
4.
Promote cultural awareness and the embracing of
cultural diversity of all students, faculty, staff, and community members.
5. Arrange
and support programs to build students' social-emotional competencies and sound
character.
6.
Bring in community and Internet resources
around career and academic planning.
7.
Provide counseling in choices of courses to
take, career paths, specific pursuit of jobs in higher education after
graduation.
8.
Personal choices including friendships.
9. Personal choices concerning peer pressure.
10. Personal
choices in personal relationships.
11. Promote
community engagement.
12. Problem
behavior areas students might encounter.
13. Provide
grief counseling for students who have lost a loved one.
14. Students
also need more intensive, sustained, and personal intervention counseling,
which I would describe as in any of the above areas.
15. Provide
direct services where possible or refer them elsewhere when necessary.
16. Maintain
records and testing, making certain that all tests’ are valid and reliable.
17. Being
a direct lesion for social workers and child protective services on behalf of
students.
18. Provide
classroom guidance on issues such as bullying and school policies.
19. Work
with special needs students and counsel faculty on the students with disabilities
act to insure compliance and provide the best possible outcomes for these
students.
20. The Pay
is AWESOME and you never take your work HOME with you!
I liked all your reasons but number 20 is the best. This is the rule that belongs in Neverwas doesn’t it?
ReplyDeleteI like numbers 8, 9, and 10. Students need to learn to make decisions on their own. High school students are so use to parents making decisions for them that they really struggle with being self reliant. It is good to teach teenagers how to make their own choices, but to know the difference between appropriate choices and those that are not in their best interest.
ReplyDeleteRight now for me number 18 is hitting home, I have been working with a classroom on guidance concerning bullying. It is an issue in elementary school and I am working now to help students recognize when they are being a bully. They sure know if they have been bullied, but do not see that they can be a bully as well. #20 is awesome Hee-Hee
ReplyDeleteI also like how you mentioned bullying and the importance of teaching guidance lessons in this area. Bullying starts at such a young age so the guidance lessons need to start at a young age as well. It is amazing to me how some 5 year olds can say such hurtful things to other children. But it is even more amazing when grown adults bully and make hurtful comments!
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