Hello Joy,
I enjoyed reading your post. The American School Counselor Association (2012) national model supports school counselors to collaborate with key stakeholders in order to provide needed services to students. I agree that the stakeholders you identified would be extremely important for the school counselor to collaborate with. As you identified, parents are an important part of the team because they legally have say over their child. Further, parents have a unique view of their child outside of the school setting that can provide great information for the school counselor. The other key stakeholders you identified are important because they oversee the school and work with the students on a daily basis. Another key member to add to
My name is Ranee Xiong, and I am a Junior at the University of Minnesota, Morris. I am a Human Services major with a Sociology minor. For my final paper for this year, I have to interview a person within this field, and I am wondering if I could interview you for my final paper. Like you, I want to become a school counselor, so I thought it would be great to interview someone who is in the field that I want to be in.
“In addition to organizational structure, the people within an organization determine how the organization functions. The values and perspectives of these individuals can influence how programs are implemented, how the organization obtains money and other resources, who is hired by the organization, and what services the organization provides,” (Hardina, Middleton, Montana & Simpson, 2007 pg. 29). The following will analyze the Saginaw Intermediate School District (Saginaw ISD) and their ability to meet the needs of those people it serves as well as those individuals they employ. Stakeholder Groups Recruiting and retaining active stakeholders increases, “Greater community support and buy-in, varied perspectives, a better understanding of the community context and an overall, more effective effort,” (Morgan, Stakeholders and Collaborators, 2018).
While interviewing school counselor, Melissa Gomes from Friendship Southeast Elementary Public Charter School, I was able to obtain a lot of information pertaining to a school counselor’s profession. Although, I have acquired plenty of information about a school counselor occupation throughout the last year and half of attending Trinity, the interview was very beneficial and knowledgeable. Ms. Gomes gave great insight that allowed for a better understanding of a school counselors role. Ms. Gomes was kind enough to answer several different questions pertaining to her role and responsibilities as a school counselor. After completing her studies and earning a master’s degree from Michigan State in school counseling, Ms. Gomes worked in her field
Although outside the walls of the school, relationships with the families and the community are essential for providing students with the needed wraparound support. Building transparent, authentic relationships with students, teachers, families, and the greater community fosters trust that we are able and worthy to serve
A. There are several significant discussion points and topics that I want to address with my site supervisor about my interactive presentation. My goal is for faculty, administrators, and parents to understand the importance and need for school counselors according to the Missouri Comprehensive and Guidance Counseling Program. I want to ask my supervisor what she believes are the most important roles and responsibilities of a school counselor that I should include and incorporate into my presentation. This will help to guide my presentation and provide more focus. I also want to ask my supervisor what the best resources would be utilize in collecting information for my presentation.
It may seem a little invasive, but schools are permitted to use drug dogs to sniff out contraband during unannounced, random searches and it becomes a controversial problem for all. The use of drug-sniffing dogs in schools is permitted because students do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the school and school search did not go against the Fourth Amendment, which is the right of people to be secure in their personal spaces houses and papers. While drug dogs are becoming more and more commonplace in our public schools and to maintaining a drug-dog program can cost district estimates $12,000 and $36,000 every year. Drug dog must go through a long period of time of training and drug dogs are not dangerous to people, but instead it protects people. Without reservation, we must know the history background, advantages, and disadvantages of having a drug dog searches.
However, even if this were an effective way to serve her student, the fact that group counseling has been eliminated as an option still hinders the school counseling program’s effectiveness. When confronting the administration about reinstating group counseling, she risks her job and relationship with other school professionals. This course of action requires tact, data, and facts. By bolstering her student’s self-efficacy to help her disclose her identity to her parents, Mrs. Moon risks her student’s emotional wellbeing if her parents do not accept her. By defying the order of the school and providing group counseling unofficially, she severely risks her job and her reputation as a school
Hi Ashli, I enjoyed reading your post about the accountability bridge model and how it fits with the American School Counselor Association’s (ASCA) guidelines. I agree with your assessment of the accountability bridge model in the context of the ASCA guidelines. As school counselors are tasked with being accountable for how the school counseling program is supporting students’ academic success, absentee rates, and behavior, school counselors must be able to show what they are doing is having a positive outcome for students (ASCA, 2012). As you discussed, the accountability bridge model supports this accountability. Further, I agree that the accountability bridge model supports collaboration among stakeholders in order to improve the counseling
My career goal is to work as a high school counselor, but specifically I want to work with special education students. I would be enthusiastic however to work with any high school students on a professional level. I’ve always knew that my future would involve helping others, and when I was in high school I never had councilor I could talk to openly. My guidance counselor made it clear that she was only there for scheduling and nothing more. She told me when it came time to apply for college that I was wasting my time
From the outside, many students live consists of all happy moments. Some people hide their stories deep down within themselves to bury the problems they want to hide. In my senior year of high school, I remember seeing this one sophomore girl that was super cute, energetic and playful at my senior barbeque. Her smile was filled with love, but I could see that her eyes told a different story. A few weeks later, I found out that she was in my associate student body (ASB) class and was placed in the same group as me.
School mission: The International High School at Union Square has a unique mission where their main goal is to prepare multicultural student population of recent immigrants to embark on individualized pathways towards skill development, graduation, college and careers. Students are immersed in experiential, interdisciplinary projects and English language instruction in all content areas to facilitate their language developments and increase content knowledge within a supportive, personalized atmosphere. The International high school mission is to empower students to thrive in a diverse world by helping them to learn to collaborate with others and advocate for themselves. School Counseling Mission Statement: The school counseling mission of The International High School counseling program is to advocate for their students and to empower each of their students to reach their fullest potential and also to create a safe environment. Educational Philosophy:
1. The mission of the school counseling program is to assist all student achieve to the best of his or her ability personally/socially, academically, and vocationally through comprehensive and developmentally appropriate program(s) to be productive citizens, community members, and lifelong learners. This is a collaborative and multi-tiered support approach involving students, parents, faculty and staff, and community learners as stakeholders in the success of our students. 2.
Their main objective is to help the school make strategic decisions and directions to help achieve the main goals of the school. Basically, they are the ones who are in control of the school. Their main interest in the school is its success. Their role is to help the school become more successful. They want to make sure that the students of Island School are provided with high quality education.
3. Stakeholders: Definition:A person, group or organisation that has interest or concern in an organisation. Stakeholders can affect or be affected by the organisation 's actions, objectives and policies. Some examples of key stakeholders are creditors, directors, employees, government (and its agencies), owners (shareholders), suppliers, unions, and the community from which the business draws its resources. Not all stakeholders are equal.
School social work, similar to child protective services, excels in providing aide for the youth. School social work is interesting and unique in that it happens within multiple school environments. From kindergarten to the senior year of high school, there are school social workers providing aide to a wide span and variety of youth. What is unique about school social work is that the field can frequently blend into other fields of social work. For example, school social work can very much so seamlessly be labeled as or contain elements from fields including child protective services, family services, and criminal justice.