Lessons Learned, Lessons Created
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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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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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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