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Counseling Program E-Portfolio Goals and Learning Objectives

Counseling Program E-Portfolio Goals and Learning Objectives. Ellen Short, Ph.D. Department of Counseling and School Psychology. E-Portfolios. What is an E-Portfolio?

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Counseling Program E-Portfolio Goals and Learning Objectives

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  1. Counseling Program E-PortfolioGoals and Learning Objectives Ellen Short, Ph.D. Department of Counseling and School Psychology

  2. E-Portfolios • What is an E-Portfolio? • It is an online collection of professional and academic documents (e.g., your resume/Curriculum Vitae, professional statement, and evidence of Counseling Program Goals and Learning Objectives). • How does the Counseling program utilize E-Portfolios? • Students submit coursework (i.e., evidence) and rationales (i.e., brief narratives) that demonstrates their understanding and knowledge of each Goal and Learning Objective. • NOTE: Counseling Program E-Portfolio Template is on Blackboard.

  3. Professional Development • Professional Philosophy Statement: The philosophy statement is a 500-word essay about the professional values that guide your work with clients. • Cover Letter: The cover letter is a general letter written to acquire a position in the type of setting in which you are most interested in working. It’s important to craft your letter toward your specific professional intention. • Resume/Curriculum Vitae: Your resume is a brief presentation of related training and work experiences. A Curriculum Vitae is a comprehensive presentation of the professional and academic experiences that have prepared you for a position in counseling. You can find samples of both documents online.

  4. Professional Development • Certificates of Development/Training • MFT and MHC: Child Abuse and Maltreatment • SC/BSC: Child Abuse and Maltreatment, School Violence Prevention, Social Patterns of Harassment, Discrimination and Bullying (Cyber) • Hours Log

  5. Academic Development • Six Counseling Program Goals and Learning Objectives • Theory • Humanistic Foundation • Pluralism/Multiculturalism • Ethical and Legal Standards • Self-Awareness • Writing

  6. Academic Development • Four Areas of Competence that your E-Portfolio will be assessed on by the Counseling faculty: • Proficient • Competent • Emerging Competence • Incompetence

  7. Academic Development:Rationale and Evidence • What is a Rationale? • A Rationale is a 100-250 word summary that describes: 1) What you have learned about a specific Goal and Learning Objective, and, 2) An explanation of why you have chosen your evidence in support of the Goal and Learning Objective. • What is Evidence? • Evidence is completed course work that you choose that demonstrates what you have learned about the specific Goal and Learning Objective.

  8. Academic Development:Rationale and Evidence • What makes a proficient Rationale? • A proficient Rationale is one that focuses directly on the Learning Objective and describes what you have learned about it as a counselor-in-training. • It also includes some of the language of the Learning Objective and focuses on areas of strength and areas that may need improvement in your knowledge and competence. • A proficient Rationale also describes your Evidence (e.g., your coursework) and explains why you have chosen it and how it illustrates your competency regarding the Learning Objective.

  9. Academic Development:Rationale and Evidence • What type of Evidence should you choose? • Evidence should be uploaded as completed course work that illustrates and validates your learning about a specific Goal and Learning Objective. • Evidence chosen should be from your classes and also from your Practicum and Internship fieldwork. Example: Paper assignments, journals, Power Point presentations, transcripts with clients, fieldwork documents from class or your site, supervisor evaluations, etc. • Evidence chosen does not have to be perfect --- you can choose a document that you made errors in and one that you improved your work on and explain your learning curve for the Learning Objective. • The same evidence can be used more than once but it must clearly fit the Learning Objective --- you must be able explain why you have chosen it multiple times. It is recommended that you use the same evidence no more than two times.

  10. Academic Development:Rationale and Evidence • What is the Counseling faculty assessing about your Rationale and Evidence? • The Counseling faculty is reading your Rationale and Evidence to: • Assess your learning of each Goal and Learning Objective. • READ AND EVALUATE your Rationale VERY CAREFULLY for content (e.g., what you have learned) and correct grammar and spelling. • NOTE: We are NOT RE-GRADING YOUR EVIDENCE --- we will only review it to assess it’s relevance to the Goal and Learning Objective.

  11. Recommendations • Your E-Portfolio is a living document that represents you, your hard work as a counselor-in-training in your program (MHC/SC/BSC/MFT) and the overall quality of your learning and knowledge. • Treat the process of creating your E-Portfolio with the respect it deserves by allowing yourself adequate time and space to complete it. Rushing through it and/or doing it at the last minute may result in a completed document that doesn’t fully show your competencies, learning, and knowledge. • Failing your E-Portfolio exam will mean you will have to meet with a faculty member for advisement and you will have to revise and resubmit it. This may result in delayed graduation.

  12. Goal 1: Theory • Students will demonstrate knowledge of counseling theories and skill in their application. • Learning Objective 1.1: Demonstrates full knowledge of an array (e.g., multiple theories) of theoretical frames from which to view the counseling process. • Learning Objective 1.2: Demonstrates full knowledge of evidence-based, multicultural, best practices of counseling. • Learning Objective 1.3: Applies theory skillfully, multiculturally and appropriately.

  13. Goal 2: Humanistic Foundation • Students will ground their counseling practice in a humanistic foundation. • Learning Objective 2.1: Demonstrates high levels of respect and value for individual differences. • Learning Objective 2.2: Demonstrates full understanding of the perspectives of those they serve; communicates this understanding in an effective, empathic, constructive manner. • Learning Objective 2.3: Demonstrates global interpersonal genuineness in their professional and academic relationships. • Learning Objective 2.4: Demonstrates strong ability to hold others in positive regard while working toward productive insight and change.

  14. Goal 3: Pluralism/Multiculturalism • Students will counsel effectively in a pluralistic society. • Learning Objective 3.1: Demonstrates a high level of awareness of interactions among language, race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion/spirituality, socioeconomic class and ability status and their effects on the lives of those with whom they work and themselves. • Learning Objective 3.2: Demonstrates consistent multicultural counseling competence, i.e., self-awareness, knowledge and skill in working with diverse populations. • Learning Objective 3.3: Demonstrates committed ability and willingness to work toward a just and pluralistic democratic society.

  15. Goal 4: Ethical and Legal Standards • Students will demonstrate knowledge of and skill in ethically and legally sound practice. • Learning Objective 4.1: Demonstrates a full understanding of ethical standards for the counseling profession. • Learning Objective 4.2: Demonstrates a full understanding of state and federal laws relevant to the counseling profession. • Learning Objective 4.3: Demonstrates strong ability to engage in an ethically and legally sound decision-making process under supervision.

  16. Goal 5: Self-Awareness • Students will demonstrate an awareness of self in embedded cultural contexts that will enable them to use themselves effectively in their work. • Learning Objective 5.1: Demonstrates strong ability to identify their cognitive and emotional reactions during the course of their work. • Learning Objective 5.2: Demonstrates highly constructive and effective verbal and nonverbal interactions during the course of their work.

  17. Goal 6: Writing • Students will develop writing competency across four dimensions: organization, style and fluency, grammar and mechanics and academic (APA) format. • Learning Objective 6.1: Organization: Writing demonstrates logical, clear structure with unified paragraphs and skillful transitions; well written introduction and conclusion. • Learning Objective 6.2: Style & Fluency: Writing is polished and insightful with a distinctive and developed voice, point of view and clear sense of audience. Vocabulary used is exceptional. • Learning Objective 6.3: Grammar & Mechanics: Proficient use of grammar with minimal grammatical errors. Sentences are structured effectively and powerfully, with appropriate sentence style and length. • Learning Objective 6.4: Academic Format: Sources are correctly cited and incorporated skillfully to support ideas, and enhance meaning.

  18. Support • Blackboard Instructions for the Counseling E-Portfolio: can be found on the Blackboard Template. • Campus Resources: • You can receive IT support by contacting it@liu.edu, Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm. • You can make an appointment with Monique Jackson-Howard, IT Specialist, ITRC/IT: mhoward@liu.edu; (718) 488-3326.

  19. Submission • E-Portfolio Deadlines are: • January Graduation(Fall Program completion) Due: September 15 • May Graduation (Spring Program completion) Due: December 15 • September Graduation (Summer Program completion) Due: April 15

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