Christmas break is great! It gives your students a chance to refresh and recharge for the final half of their senior or junior years. Some students choose to lounge around and binge watch TV shows and movies. Others spend a lot of time with their electronic toys playing video games or sending out social media Read More
Below is a great list of Counseling resources with links that should be of interest to you. A Complete Guide to Careers in Counseling https://www.learnpsychology.org/counseling/ Best Online Counseling Degrees and Programs: 2016-2017 https://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/degrees/counseling-programs/ National Institute of Mental Health Library https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/index.shtml Top Counseling Psychology Programs and Guidebook https://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org/psychology-degree/counseling-programs/ Networking: Become a Member of the American Counseling Read More
As a home-based teacher, my role as an educator never stops – even if students in some areas are on summer break! Actually, where I live, there are a lot of home and community education programs that run year-round, so we’re always on the lookout for great new ideas on engaging our students. I’ve come Read More
College Admissions is the closest thing modern America has to a rite of passage, but far from being the meritocracy we would like to believe, the selective college admissions process looks more like a beauty contest. Aspiring high school students have to figure out how they have to act and what they have to look Read More
When my high school counselor informed me that I might not be cut out for a four-year college or university, I was not only crushed but also confused. I grew up in a household with two college educated parents, and in what I look back now on as a very “college-going” culture, so why didn’t my Read More
Most school counselors understand Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) – or use it without knowing the name or acronym. However, there may be some new ways you can put it to use, even in the college admissions process or handling the student stress that goes along with it. You can understand a lot about SFBT Read More
OnlineCounselingPrograms.com has developed a comprehensive “School Counselor ToolKit” which has some very good information that I think will prove beneficial to Counselors. The content was developed entirely by school counselors looking to help those trying to start or advance their careers in the field. Areas of the School Counselor ToolKit include: Professional Development: Sections include, Read More
So it’s a normal day – and you’ve responded to a handful or requests for information, spent an hour or two in valuable and not-so-valuable meetings, devoted a big chunk of time answering email and calls from parents and what seems like half your day assisting students who show up at your door, typically at Read More
The flipped classroom has been one of the biggest innovations in education in the last decade, proponents would say, and now it’s finding its way into the counselo’rs toolkit as a technique to get classroom lessons to more students and make much-repeated instruction available in one installment. “Every time I don’t have to field a Read More
Studies have found what schools have known for years, families play a vital role in educating America’s children. Numerous recent studies have found those children whose parents are actively involved in their education are more motivated and achieve higher grades. It follows then that you partner with the parents of your students early on in Read More
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