A K-12 School Counseling Comprehensive Program focuses on:
Academic Development
Personal/Social Development
Career Development
Academic Development
Personal/Social Development
Career Development
How Do School Counselors Spend Their Time??
School counselors spend their day wearing many different hats. School counselors provide services to students, parents, school staff and the community in the following areas:
Direct Student Services: Direct services are in-person interactions between school counselors and students and include the following: School counseling core curriculum: This curriculum consists of structured lessons designed to help students attain the desired competencies and to provide all students with the knowledge, attitudes and skills appropriate for their developmental level.
Individual Student Planning: School counselors coordinate ongoing systemic activities designed to assist students in establishing personal goals and developing future plans.
Responsive Services: Responsive services are activities designed to meet students’ immediate needs and concerns. Responsive services may include counseling in individual or small-group settings or crisis response. Indirect Student Services Indirect services are provided on behalf of students as a result of the school counselors’ interactions with others including referrals for additional assistance, consultation and collaboration with parents, teachers, other educators and community organizations.
School counselors spend their day wearing many different hats. School counselors provide services to students, parents, school staff and the community in the following areas:
Direct Student Services: Direct services are in-person interactions between school counselors and students and include the following: School counseling core curriculum: This curriculum consists of structured lessons designed to help students attain the desired competencies and to provide all students with the knowledge, attitudes and skills appropriate for their developmental level.
Individual Student Planning: School counselors coordinate ongoing systemic activities designed to assist students in establishing personal goals and developing future plans.
Responsive Services: Responsive services are activities designed to meet students’ immediate needs and concerns. Responsive services may include counseling in individual or small-group settings or crisis response. Indirect Student Services Indirect services are provided on behalf of students as a result of the school counselors’ interactions with others including referrals for additional assistance, consultation and collaboration with parents, teachers, other educators and community organizations.
Emotional Awareness
Our emotional responses are hard to navigate at any age. Many students do not come to school with the ability to recognize emotion. As far fetched as that seems, it happens. Many students are emotionally neglected at home. Many students do not know how to "label" their feelings. Many students do not know the appropriate way to handle emotions because they have seen non healthy ways of expression at home.
Figuring out how and what you are physically feeling is particularly challenging when you’re feeling things like rage, sadness, disgust, and confusion for the first time. Our children have a hard time understanding what it all means. Sometimes, though, the best thing to do is just breathe.
Which is exactly what’s at the heart of the matter in this short from filmmakers Julie Bayer Salzman and Josh Salzman titled “Just Breathe.” In the 4-minute long video, the duo spoke to several young Smart Girls and Boys about how their emotions affect them and how they physically feel. But rather than just opening up the conversation — which is great and also, hint hint nudge nudge, part of what we’re doing with #BeEmotionalInsideOut — the duo show how helpful the practice of mindfulness is in keeping kids emotionally healthy.
Our emotional responses are hard to navigate at any age. Many students do not come to school with the ability to recognize emotion. As far fetched as that seems, it happens. Many students are emotionally neglected at home. Many students do not know how to "label" their feelings. Many students do not know the appropriate way to handle emotions because they have seen non healthy ways of expression at home.
Figuring out how and what you are physically feeling is particularly challenging when you’re feeling things like rage, sadness, disgust, and confusion for the first time. Our children have a hard time understanding what it all means. Sometimes, though, the best thing to do is just breathe.
Which is exactly what’s at the heart of the matter in this short from filmmakers Julie Bayer Salzman and Josh Salzman titled “Just Breathe.” In the 4-minute long video, the duo spoke to several young Smart Girls and Boys about how their emotions affect them and how they physically feel. But rather than just opening up the conversation — which is great and also, hint hint nudge nudge, part of what we’re doing with #BeEmotionalInsideOut — the duo show how helpful the practice of mindfulness is in keeping kids emotionally healthy.