Please consider the request to hold a panel review on the application for Stephanie Maselli’s School Guidance Counselor, 5-12, Initial Licensure.
Stephanie began her position, as the College & Internship Placement Coordinator, at Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School, on (DATE). During her time here, she has managed many of the responsibilities a guidance counselor would fulfill. Those responsibilities include; college counseling and individual support, overseeing high school internships in accordance to the Massachusetts Work-Based Learning Plan, providing parent education and communication, outreach to colleges and universities, maintaining of partnerships, support for assessments, a myriad of other responsibilities.
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A major role is to provide focused outreach and support to individual families. She works with our Student Support Services staff to support students with disabilities and language needs in preparing for college admissions and transition. This may include the college application process, financial aid, finding scholarships, and additional college funding. Stephanie supports senior class events, class meetings, and provides an opportunity to disseminate information about the college application process. Her role supports co-curricular events connected to senior year …show more content…
She oversees the completion of our yearly school profile, scheduling all seniors for dual enrollment, and assists with the set up of college visits and tours for students. The arrangement for college representatives to visit our campus and the facilitation of meetings between representatives and students is handled by her. Stephanie also serves as the liaison with college admission offices and completes all required school report, mid-year reports, and final reports as requested by colleges.
Other liaison roles include collaboration and communication with current partners such as, the college and career readiness software used at BART, the regional employment board, the local community bank, the regional transit authority, and the local colleges.
Stephanie maintains and disseminates information about standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, and Accuplacer, along with assisting with the registration. In partnership with a colleague she schedules and facilitates the Accuplacer test during students’ junior year. With the deciphering of Accuplacer scores, she supports students in applying and registering for classes and monitor the partnership and student participation. For students with disabilities, she ensures they have scheduled meetings with college’s disability centers for special education
She expressed the honor and privilege it is to pour into the lives of young ones especially those lost and trouble. LaToya emphasized how sometimes you are not playing the guidance counselor but their mommies, which really highlighted the compassion and genuine caring concern for her students. Which provided me with the reminder that your career pathway should not rely on socioeconomic factors but more of a view of where our heart and intentions lie. Additionally, we discussed her schooling experience while pursuing her master’s degree, she had self-doubt with questioning her abilities just myself, however, what eradicated the negativity is experience gained through interning as well as faith. We closed with words of empowerment and motivation instilled in me to further continued education for master’s degree and licensure just as herself. Overall, this interview was associated with benefits such as clarity, wisdom and purposeful reminders. This entire interview revealed the profound impact being a human service profession has on society and
First and foremost the ASCA National Crosswalking Tool have sections that primarily focuses on the key components of an exemplary school counselor performance and accountability model for structuring a comprehensive guidance program. The ASCA National Model Crosswalking Tools can be used to develop the appropriate scope and sequence for a guidance curriculum.When implementing this tool correctly in a school system, there are major influences that can be utilized in helping students. In the paragraphs below I will describe key points of how it will improve student learning, foster student development of career awareness, and students will acquire self knowledge to enhance their personal and social development. This tool is useful and effective when applied in state education agencies and is most effective tool for students to transition throughout their academic settings.
The responsibilities of a professional school counselor are to design and deliver comprehensive programs to promote student achievement. The guidelines
In addition, I have previous experience working with the high school students in the Americorps Scholars in Service program as a lead tutor and college mentor. In this position, I monitored students’ progress and worked one-on-one providing academic and personal support for adolescents. Proficient in computer programs such as Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Solid oral and written communication skills including business writing, proper grammar and spelling. Good organizational skills, including the ability to prioritize work and manage conflicting deadlines.
Deciding to become a Student Guidance Counselor was not a fly by night decision. I did a great deal of reading and research before making a decision. I knew once I started a graduate program in School Guidance Counseling, it would be both challenging and a commitment until the end. I am somewhat nervous about this new journey that I am about to partake; however, I am ready to accept the challenge and make the commitment. I am a newly licensed teacher and there will be areas and terminology which I am not familiar. But, what I have found out thus far is that a teacher and a student counselor have quite a few things in common. They both work with other teachers, parents, school administrators, and the community in an academic setting. The skills I have acquired as a preschool director and teacher will be integrated into my career as a guidance counselor. I will have the skills to guide and enhance the social, academic, and personal growth of my students by using a variety of strategies which will be my primary goal. I will be able t...
I received the pleasure of interviewing two school counselors, Mrs. Jean Harmon and Mr. Devon Herrick. I was excited about interviewing school counselors within the Chicago land area. Despite many negativities spoken about the Chicago Public School (CPS) system, I desire to work within CPS. I’ve heard many pros and cons of working at a selective enrollment school, compared to a public charter school. By interviewing these two individuals, I assumed that I would get a snapshot of a potential work day for a school counselor. Mrs. Harmon is a school counselor at King College Preparatory high school. Mr. Herrick is a personal counselor at Urban Prep Charter Academy- Bronzeville campus. It was interesting in learning about the daily responsibilities,
Janson, Militelo & Kosine (2008) examined “how school counselors and principals their relationship” (p. 353). They gathered data through Q method. The Q method allowed them to involve qualitative and quantitative approaches subjectively of individual viewpoints while providing (Janson et al., 2008) with quantitative statistical technique to analyze data” (p. 354). Their analysis formed “four opinion groupings working alliance, impediments to alliance, shared leadership and purposeful collaboration” (p.354-356). (Janson et al., 2008) (pin pointed the following barriers of school counselors and principals relationship: “principals do not feel school counselors should focus on whole school issues, principals and school counselors do not agree on duties and principals perceptions of roles and responsibilities are incongruent with standards and benchmarks that emerged from school counselors professional organization”(p.354-356). (Janson et al., 2008) found that “if the relationship between principals and school counselors were clearer than their relationship would not be difficult” (p.356-359).
Strother expressed that as a counselor, he is “constantly advocating” for his job. This is most likely due to the difference of perspectives when it comes to defining the role of the school counselor. Mr. Strother makes this clear when he states “our role within the school is usually determined by how the administrator view our position. This is the most challenging part.” At times, Mr. Strother feels as though he is assigned roles and duties that are not in his best interest or the student(s). On the other hand, Ms. Leonard believes that it is important for a counselor to establish a “delicate balance”, specifically when it comes to counseling students and meeting the expectations of administrators. As practicing school counselors, both Strother and Leonard believe they have various roles, but their main role is to be a support system to their
I cannot recall a more rewarding experience than helping facilitate a child’s education while enabling parent participation alike. These experiences have drawn me to my current position as an Educational Assistant where I am constantly interacting and establishing relationships with students, learning about their goals and aspirations. It is that same desire to empower our future students that has steered me towards a career as a school counselor. By enrolling in the Masters in counseling program, I aspire to develop methods and experience to become an effective, experienced, and adaptable school counselor that promotes self-awareness, allowing students to realize their full potential and impetus them towards a promising future. I want to learn skills that facilitate personal and career development, ensuring that our students grow accomplishing their goals and ambitions. To discover techniques that help students improve in all areas of academic achievement, establishing relationships with students and parents alike. By becoming a school counselor, I am determined to become an advocate for underserved youth. I aim to become an effective agent educational reform, providing support for students in the various institutions that may disempower
During the past three years of college, my interest in counseling has been affirmed through a variety of experiences. One important experience that influenced my decision to pursue a career as a school counselor was my involvement in my community service sorority, Chi Delta Alpha. Through Chi Delta Alpha, I volunteered on several occasions, among them I babysat children to provide parents with a night off; I was responsible for a group of elementary students as they experienced college classes and I painted a caboose for a local playground. A theme that has remained constant throughout all my different experiences is that making a difference in a person’s life is a rewarding experience, and I know that I desire a career that enables me to support high school students as they face difficult situations.
While interviewing the high school counselor of my choice Mr. Lee Ryland, this learner has learned that Mr. Ryland’s responsibilities as head school counselor i...
The school counselors meet the needs of student in three basic domains: academic development, career development, and personal/social development. The knowledge, understanding, and skill in these domains are developed through classroom instruction, assessments, consultation, counseling, coordination, and collaboration. For example, in assessment, school counselors may use a variety of personality and vocational assessment methods to help students explore vocation needs and interests. The classroom guidance lessons are designed to be preventive and include self-management and self-monitoring skills. The responsive services component of the school counselor's role provides individual and/or small group counseling for students. For example, if a student's behavior is interfering with his or her achievement, the counselor will observe that student in a class; provide consultation to teachers and other personnel to develop (with the student) a plan to address the behavioral issues, and then work together to implement the plan. They also help by providing consultation services to family members.
After conducting this interview, the respect I have for school counselors is phenomenal. Despite the huge roles that school counselors tackle every day, they are proven to be super heroes! Going into this profession is going to take a lot of my time. For this reason, it is imperative that take excellent care of myself so that I can provide and function at high capacity wherever needed in the field of school
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Guidance counseling, also called school counseling, has evolved over the years into an important part of the education system. Counselors are now taking on new roles in schools as leaders so much so that the ways in which counseling is being implemented has become a much talked about topic in schools. The effectiveness of counseling in schools is looked at by the education system more frequently than it was in the past. Though all school counselors must follow a national model for counseling, the roles and functions of counselors at various levels in the school system are different, however, school counselors at all levels of education before college are generally effective despite implications.