Guidance Curriculum Individual Planning Confidentiality
System Support Responsive Services
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Guidance Curriculum
Classroom Counseling
Classroom guidance lessons are provided to all students (K-5), once a month, promoting academic, personal/social, and career development. This is one key way to ensure all students' needs are being served.
*Lessons led range from friendship skills, conflict resolution, actions and outcomes, bully prevention, Movin' On Up to Middle School, safety, emotional regulations and self-control, celebrating diversity, understanding prejudice and inequality, anger management, and a variety of problem-solving skills. |
Group Counseling
Small group counseling provides multiple students the opportunity to express their concerns in a supportive environment of their peers. Students benefit by feeling normalcy that other peers feel the same, provides opportunities for role modeling of new skills, and it provides a safe place to try out new skills.
*Groups led include Superstar Student Study Skills group, Test Taking group, Relaxing with Friends worry group, New Student lunch groups, Changing Families group, Gecko Girls friendship group, Fabulous Friends friendship group, Cool Kids emotional regulation group, Memory grief group, and many others. |
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Individual Planning
The school counselor helps students identify their strengths and support them in establishing, setting, implementing, and evaluating personal goals in academic, personal/social, and career development. Many time this is done on an individual basis, however group advisement is another method of delivery. Collaboration with the parent and/or guardian, as well as the student, is pertinent to the overall success of the student, and strongly encouraged. At the elementary level include: Elective selection in the transition to middle school, Setting up/Reviewing behavior plans, Discussing test-taking skills and strategies, and Promotion/Retention
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Confidentiality
Confidentiality is an important component of the counseling relationship. However, students are informed at the beginning of the counseling relationship that if they reveal they wish to do harm to themselves, someone is harming them, or someone else's safety is threatened, confidentiality will be broken. In addition, students are encouraged to share with their parent and/or teachers, or the counselor will ask for permission to share if it is relevant to a third party.
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System Support
Teachers
*Consultation- academic, personal/social concerns *Collaboration *Interventions *Behavioral support *Academic support *Kid Talk (once monthly) Parents *Consultation *Collaboration *Outside referral *Parent workshops *Results data from groups sent home to parents Community *Consult/collaboration with outside therapists/counselors *Career explorations fair speakers *Referrals for families and students *Partnerships with area restaurants/businesses Professional Development The school counselor strives to stay up-to-date in counseling knowledge. This is carried out through regular attendance to conferences and training sessions, continuous membership with American School Counseling Association (ASCA), and continuing education beyond the master's degree held. |
Responsive Services
Individual and Group Counseling
Many students have individual concerns and need additional support. For these students individual counseling is available. The counselor works with the student to empower them in accomplishing their goals. Students, teachers, and parents may refer students to be seen on an individual basis. Oftentimes several students have the same concerns. In these instances a small group counseling environment is more suitable. Referral If further counseling is needed beyond the scope of what the school counselor can provide referrals to outside resources will be given for support. *Community Asset Map - This is a comprehensive list of resources families and students can utilize in a 5-mile radius of our school. Resources range from youth organizations, social services, places of worship, and so on. Crisis Counseling The school counselor provides support to students who may be facing an emergency situation. If a child reports that they are being harmed, harming someone else, or overall safety is a concern the school counselor has an ethical and legal obligation to report the situation to proper authorities. Consultation As a school counselor consultation is imperative in serving our students. Teachers, parents, guardians, community services, educators, and counselors can all come together to collaborate on how to best serve the students. |