2. Role of a
Professional School
Counselor
•They vary their skills
according to the different
developmental needs of the
population they serve
•School counselors use the
basic skills of counseling,
consulting, coordinating and
appraising.
• Help children build self-
esteem.
• Help get parents involved in
their children’s education.
• Work with teachers to
provide guidance.
3. Role of a Professional School Counselor
•Help the student explore career options.
• Help the student prepare for college entrance exams and other college
preparatory activities.
• Provide individual counseling on personal/social, academics, and career.
•Help students begin focusing on career development, love relationships,
social accomplishments and problem solving skills.
•Help students make the transition to different grade levels.
•Help support teachers and parents aid the student in developmental
goals.
4.
5. Appropriate roles: Inappropriate roles:
• individual student academic program planning • coordinating paperwork and data entry of
• I interpreting cognitive, aptitude and all new students
achievement tests • I coordinating cognitive, aptitude and
• I providing counseling to students who are achievement testing programs
tardy or absent • I signing excuses for students who are
• I providing counseling to students who have tardy or absent
disciplinary problems
• I performing disciplinary actions or
• I providing counseling to students as to assigning discipline consequences
appropriate school dress
• I sending students home who are not
• I collaborating with teachers to present school appropriately dressed
counseling core curriculum lessons
• I teaching classes when teachers are absent
• I analyzing grade-point averages in
relationship to achievement • I computing grade-point averages
• I interpreting student records • I maintaining student records
• I providing teachers with suggestions for • I supervising classrooms or common areas
effective classroom management • I keeping clerical records
• I ensuring student records are maintained as • I assisting with duties in the principal’s
per state and federal regulations
office
• I helping the school principal identify and
resolve student issues, needs and problems • I providing therapy or long-term counseling
in schools to address psychological
• I providing individual and small-group disorders
counseling services to students
• I coordinating school wide individual
• I advocating for students at individual education plans, student study teams and
education plan meetings, student study teams
and school attendance review boards school attendance review boards
• I analyzing disaggregated data • I serving as a data entry clerk
6.
7. • Professional school counselors create a mission statement
supporting the school’s mission and collaborate with other
individuals and organizations to promote all students’ academic,
career and personal/social development
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8. Foundation
• Foundation Objectives:
• Initiate projects to enhance the personal, career and academic development of all
students
• Promote research to demonstrate school counseling efficacy
• Increase public awareness of the school counseling profession
• Promote standards and best practices in school counseling programs
• Develop educational materials and professional development
opportunities for the advancement of school counseling
• Support publications emphasizing excellence in school counseling
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9. Delivery
• School counselors provide services to students, parents, school
staff and the community in the following areas:
• Direct Student Services Direct services are in-person interactions between
school counselors and students and include the following:
• School counseling core curriculum: This curriculum consists of structured
lessons designed to help students attain the desired competencies and to
provide all students with the knowledge, attitudes and skills appropriate
for their developmental level. The school counseling core curriculum is
delivered throughout the school’s overall curriculum and is systematically
presented by school counselors in collaboration with other professional
educators in K-12 classroom and group activities.
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10. Delivery
• Individual Student Planning – Professional school counselors coordinate
ongoing systemic activities designed to help students establish personal
goals and develop future plans.
• Responsive Services – Responsive services are preventative and/or
intervention activities meeting students’ immediate and future needs.
These needs can be necessitated by events and conditions in students’
lives and may require any of the following:
• individual or group counseling
• consultation with parents, teachers and other educators
• referrals to other school support services or community resources
• peer helping
• Information
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11. Management
• School counselors incorporate organizational assessments and tools that
are concrete, clearly delineated and reflective of the school’s needs.
Assessments and tools include:
• School counselor competency and school counseling program
assessments to self-evaluate areas of strength and improvement for
individual skills and program activities
• Use-of-time assessment to determine the amount of time spent toward
the recommended 80 percent or more of the school counselor’s time to
direct and indirect services with students
• Annual agreements developed with and approved by administrators at
the beginning of the school year addressing how the school counseling
program is organized and what goals will be accomplished
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12. Management
• Advisory councils made up of students, parents, teachers, school
counselors, administrators and community members to review and make
recommendations about school counseling program activities and results
• Use of data to measure the results of the program as well as to promote
systemic change within the school system so every student graduates
college- and career-ready
• Curriculum, small-group and closing-the-gap action plans including
developmental, prevention and intervention activities and services that
measure the desired student competencies and the impact on
achievement, behavior and attendance
• Annual and weekly calendars to keep students, parents, teachers and
administrators informed and to encourage active participation in the
school counseling program
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13. Accountability
• To demonstrate the effectiveness of the school counseling program
in measurable terms, professional school counselors report on
immediate, intermediate and long-range results showing how
students are different as a result of the school counseling program.
Professional school counselors use data to show the impact of the
school counseling program on school improvement and student
achievement. Professional school counselors conduct school
counseling program audits to guide future action and improve
future results for all students. The performance of the professional
school counselor is evaluated on basic standards of practice
expected of professional school counselors implementing a school
counseling program.
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