Hear about an innovative graduate program in School Counseling and Family Consultation in Celebration, Fla., designed to meet the diverse needs of school counselors in the new millennium. Explore the program's rationale and history, course requirements, and program design and implementation. Counseling and mentoring culturally and linguistically diverse and under-represented students can be challenging for most school counselors. A proven counseling and assessment tool is utilizing effective and relevant mentoring and coaching techniques within a service learning context. This presentation increases best practices in learning proactive tools and building external partners with community and business leaders who support mentoring models to address cultural and language aspects to academic achievements.
School counselors are busy professionals.
They don't have time to spend on activities that don't make a difference in students' lives. Explore which career development interventions actually lead to gains in student achievement. Emphasis is placed on accepting yourself, others and responsibility. Through discussion, visuals, role playing, puppets and coaching activities, session participants learn practical skills in teaching tolerance, kindness and acceptance, and how to organize and teach a peer leader program. Handouts are provided.