Are you home? Spending a lot of time at home? Maybe getting slightly bored at home? Helping your students the best you can but have a little time left over? Wanting to do “counselory” things with this time? Here are four ideas: 1. Get your PD on! This is an awesome time to dive into some of those PD books…
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It took me a few years to realize this very important fact: the more organized I am as a school counselor, the better I am at my job. I’m not naturally organized so this was a tough realization for me to face. Nonetheless, it was incredibly true. Why? Because there’s always more to be done than there is time for….
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In some of the educator/counselor Facebook groups I’m a part of, there has been a lot of talk about R-E-S-P-E-C-T. People complaining their students are disrespectful, people wondering how they can teach respect to their students, and people worried that their faculty and students have differing ideas of what respect really means. As human beings, we all have an innate…
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I love task cards. They are the bees knees in my counseling program: super versatile and lots of fun. What do I mean when I say “task cards”? They can be lots of different things! And can you use task cards in primary guidance lessons? Yes! Task cards can be actual tasks for students to complete, such as demonstrating the…
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No matter your counseling theory of choice, reality is that you need “stuff” to counsel elementary students. Most of our sessions aren’t just sitting and talking. We need tools and props and resources and toys and games. These serve to engage our students and also to meaty concepts more concrete for their developing minds. Sometimes we have the benefit of…
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Last month, I wrote about group counseling planning AKA you have to have a plan, you can’t wing it. And then a bit after that, I wrote about measuring your group’s success through data. In addition to planning out your sessions and your data collection, it’s also key to intentionally plan out ways to build relationships in the group. Relationships…
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