This post contains affiliate links. In my excitement to use CBT techniques – and my excitement to have funds to spend on counseling resources – I purchased Positive Thinking at my first school counseling placement (in a middle school). I wish when I’d bought it that I’d been able to find more information online about this game so I’m putting…
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Counseling Games for Kids
This post contains affiliate links. There’s never enough time in school counseling. Never enough time to plan and prepare, never enough time to meet with students, never enough time to effectively use data…the list goes on. One thing I did this past summer to be better prepared for my individual sessions was create a collection of issue-specific color-coded questions. It’s…
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Classroom Counseling Posters
While some of my lessons are just introducing students to ideas or information, many of them are teaching concrete skills that I’m hoping they use. I start each lesson by introducing the students to the ‘I can’ statement. I also use these to 1) reinforce the fact that the learning we doing in Life Skills is just as important as…
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Simon’s Hook Lesson
Many other counselors have already sang the praises on the internet of Simon’s Hook but I have to join in. This month I used this with our 3rd grade classes to teach them how to be a ‘free fish’ and not get ‘caught’ when people tease them and it was a huge hit. Inspired by The Inspired Counselor’s lesson (no…
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Hello and Welcome
I’ve found so many wonderful resources from other school counseling blogs that I wanted to share what I’ve been doing with others so that together we can “work smarter, not harder”. I’m The Responsive Counselor because my services are responsive; responsive to the needs of my school and students, responsive to the ASCA model, responsive to Common Core standards, responsive…
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