Transcript Baldwin County Public School System

Baldwin County Public School
System
Counseling and Guidance Program
Daphne Elementary School
Counseling and Guidance Services
• The Baldwin County Public School System’s
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counseling and guidance program is
comprehensive in scope, preventive in design,
and developmental in nature.
The ASCA (American School Counselor
Association) National Model: A Framework for
School Counseling and the State of Alabama’s
Counseling Plan form the fundamentals of our
district’s comprehensive counseling plan.
Mission Statement
• To effectively provide a motivating, safe,
and trusting environment which empowers
all students to become life-long
emotional, social, academic, and careeroriented citizens.
Mission Statement
• We strive to accomplish this mission by
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providing a variety of planned, purposeful, and
sequential counseling and guidance activities
that promote growth in the domains of
personal/social, academic, and career
development.
Each building-level program is data-driven by
students’ needs and provides outcome-based
accountability measures.
What Services Do Counselors
Provide?
• Guidance Curriculum
• Individual Planning
• Responsive Services
• System Support
Guidance Curriculum
• The guidance curriculum includes classroom and
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large group activities from Pre K-12th grade.
There is an emphasis on decision-making; selfunderstanding; study skills; and career
exploration, preparation, and planning.
Counselors may choose to use the sample lesson
plans in the School Guidance Curriculum Guide,
or they may use lesson plans of their own.
Individual Planning
• Includes counseling activities that provide every
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student with an opportunity to plan, monitor,
and manage their academic, career, and
personal/social development.
Individual student planning emphasizes test
interpretation, i.e., AHSGE, ARMT, SAT10,
Alabama Science Assessment.
Academic counseling includes postsecondary
education, career/technical education, and
career planning.
Responsive Services
• The majority of the school counselors’ day
is spent on Responsive Services.
• These services include counseling or
referral activities to meet the immediate
needs and concerns of students.
• Responsive services include personal
counseling, problem solving, agency
referral, and consultation.
System Support
• System support includes indirect guidance
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management activities that maintain and
enhance the counseling and guidance program.
Responsibilities in this component include: staff
relations, community relations, task forces,
professional development, support teams, test
interpretation, data analysis, and curriculum
development.
School Counselors Impact the
Entire Learning Community by…
• Counseling individuals and small groups of
students to meet identified needs
• Teaching the guidance curriculum to
students and school personnel
• Consulting with parents, teachers, and
other staff to address students’ needs
• Coordinating people and resources in the
community to benefit students
Confidentiality
• All personal information shared with a school
counselor is confidential unless it involves:
– Harming self or others
– Abuse or neglect
• In these situations, school counselors are
required by law to report this information to
parents and/or the appropriate agencies.
Baldwin County School Counselors Help Our
Children Find Success in School by…
• Helping develop positive attitudes among
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students towards self, family, and community.
Counseling with students individually and in
groups to understand and appreciate their
unique qualities and to grow personally and
socially.
Supporting students by teaching skills for
achieving success.
Baldwin County School Counselors Help Our
Children Find Success in School by…
• Developing and delivering classroom
guidance lessons that teach skills such as
making healthy decisions, resolving
conflicts, and respecting others.
• Assisting students to become invested in
their school success by showing them how
school performance relates to future
opportunities.
Baldwin County School Counselors Help Our
Children Find Success in School by…
• Working collaboratively with students,
parents, and teachers to identify and
remove barriers that may impede student
achievement.
School Counselors Help Our Children
Prepare for the Future by…
• Assisting students to develop personal
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awareness and explore personal goals.
Helping develop communication and
interpersonal skills needed to relate well to
others.
Providing a comprehensive and developmental
guidance and counseling program that impacts
all students Pre K-12.
School Counselors Help Our Children
Prepare for the Future by…
• Counseling students regarding career
planning and preparation.
• Sharing scholarship and financial aid
information for post-secondary education.
• Assisting students
– To learn,
– To work, and
– To live in the 21st century.
Elementary School Counselors
Help…
• Children develop a better understanding
and acceptance of themselves.
• Children cope with family changes.
• Children develop decision making and
problem solving skills.
• Children develop socially and emotionally,
to mature in their relations with others.
Elementary School Counselors
Help…
• Children to understand themselves in relation to
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their own development.
Parents understand their children’s emotions,
behaviors, and learning styles, and assist them
in meeting their child’s needs.
School staff, teachers, and administrators
understand and meet the needs of all students
in intellectual, personal, social, and emotional
areas.
Elementary School Counselors
Help…
• Parents and teachers create a positive
learning environment.
Middle School Counselors Help…
• Young adolescents learn to understand more
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about themselves during this transition period.
Young adolescents learn to manage and
organize information.
Young adolescents make choices and deal with
change.
Young adolescents create educational plans and
set educational goals.
Middle School Counselors Help…
• Young adolescents develop positive
attitudes toward life long learning and the
world of work.
• Young adolescents experience career
exploration activities.
• Parents and teachers create a positive
learning environment.
High School Counselors Help…
• Provide direct counseling services to
students individually and in support
groups.
• Provide education and support services to
parents.
• Provide consultation services to teachers.
• Provide staff in-services.
High School Counselors Help…
• Facilitate referrals to community support
services.
• Advise students on academic planning.
• Provide career guidance to students.
• Provide career information to parents.
• Maintain an up-to-date library of career
and post-secondary school information.
High School Counselors Help…
• Network with post-secondary schools.
• Serve on school and community
committees addressing the needs of
young people.
Counseling & Guidance Advisory
Council
• Comprised of a representative group of persons,
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including, but not limited to, the following:
students, parents/guardians, teachers,
counselors, administrators, as well as
community stakeholders from local businesses
and industries.
Their purpose is to provide advice and
assistance for the school counseling and
guidance program within the Baldwin County
School System.
Counseling and Guidance Advisory
Council
• A second purpose is to review program goals,
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competencies, and results, and to participate in
making recommendations to the school
counseling and guidance department.
Each school has its own building-level counseling
and guidance advisory council, and it functions
much like the district’s advisory council.
The professional school counselor is a certified teacher with a master’s degree or
certification in school counseling, including coursework in career development,
human growth and behavior, guidance and information services, and a supervised
internship.