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Writing Your School Counseling Curriculum

Writing Your School Counseling Curriculum. By James E. Guarino, Ed.D. Westerly (RI) Middle School Arthur W. Lisi, Ph.D. Coventry (RI) High School ASCA National Conference Denver, Colorado June 24, 2007. Goals. Develop an essential school counseling curriculum

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Writing Your School Counseling Curriculum

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  1. Writing Your School Counseling Curriculum By James E. Guarino, Ed.D. Westerly (RI) Middle School Arthur W. Lisi, Ph.D. Coventry (RI) High School ASCA National Conference Denver, Colorado June 24, 2007

  2. Goals • Develop an essential school counseling curriculum • Align the curriculum with ASCA Standards • Document essential counseling activities • Assess student progress toward the standards. • Evaluate the impact of the program

  3. The RISCA TOOLKITS • There are eight RISCA toolkits which can be found on the RISCA website. They are available for free download at www.rischoolcounselor.org. • Today’s discussion will center around Toolkit #2 • Toolkit #2 tells us what we do tomorrow morning. It is the essential counseling program

  4. THE EIGHT RISCA TOOLKITS • 1. Strategic and Annual Planning • 2. Essential Counseling Program • 3. School Counseling Data Management • 4. Professional Development Program • 5. Family and Community Engagement • 6. Program Implementation Management • 7. Planning for Results • 8. Individual Student Learning Plans

  5. Using the RISCATOOLKIT APPROACH • Answers the question: What do I do tomorrow to implement a comprehensive school counseling program based on the ASCA National Model. • Provides structured processes, clearly defined protocols, and easy to use tools to capture and organize the results of your work. • Produces quality documentation that can be used to promote the value of school counseling to student success and health of the school community

  6. What Do We Need To Do ToWrite a School Counseling Curriculum? • Identify the essential activities critical to students achieving the standards • Identify the Scope and Sequence of those essential curriculum activities • Align those activities to the ASCA Standards • Document instructions for delivering each activity • Develop a program to assess student progress toward meeting the standards

  7. Brainstorm what you do to deliver your school counseling program… • Counseling Curriculum (what you do to include ALL students, such as classroom lessons/presentations, small group activities, etc.) • Individual Planning • Responsive Services • System Support • Non-counseling activities

  8. Scope and Sequence • The scope will cover the nine ASCA standards (are all 9 standards listed? Which ones do you need to address?) • The sequence will list when each activity will take place grade-by-grade and month by month.

  9. What is a Curriculum? Curriculum is “the planned interaction of students with instructional content, materials, resources, and processes for evaluating the attainment of educational objectives.” www.doe.state.in.us/asap/definitions.html

  10. The Essential School Counseling Curriculum Is One Which… • Is a written instructional program presented developmentally and comprehensively • Aligns with ASCA standards in the areas of academic, career, and personal/social development. • Identifies the activities which will meet the standards.

  11. Documented Instruction for Delivering Each Activity • Define the school’s essential counseling curriculum. • Align the curriculum with the standards. • Document each essential counseling activity identified in the scope and sequence. • Create an action plan for each activity.

  12. School Counseling Action Plan:“Send for Help” • Title your activity – it can be referenced, catalogued, and becomes a part of your guidance curriculum • Give yourself credit! • Grade level • Materials • Collaboration required? Helpful? • ASCA and National Career Development Standards utilized • What results do we expect from the students?

  13. Action Plan (continued) • What preparations do we need to make? • What resources do we need? • How many sessions are there? • What are the “action steps” and who is responsible for each step? • Attach any worksheets.

  14. Have Students Met the Standards? –RESULTS!! • Is there an understanding of the school environment and academic demands? • Is there an understanding of career awareness, decision making, and planning? • Is there an understanding of self and others through the development of interpersonal and communications skills?

  15. Evaluating Your Counseling Curriculum Are your counseling curriculum activities/action plans…. • For all students? • Organized, planned and written? • Sequential and flexible? • An integral part of the educational process? • Opportunities to collaborate with teachers and other staff? • Helping students learn more effectively in all three domains?

  16. For More Information • Visit the RISCA Website at www.rischoolcounselor.org • Arthur Lisi, alisi7@cox.net • Jim Guarino, jaguar1@cox.net

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