School Counseling Curriculum, Individual Student Planning, Responsive Services, System Support
What are the Missouri Comprehensive School Counseling program components?
100
Where a counselor is staying current and relevant in the school counseling profession.
What is professional development?
100
School counselors provide brief services to students who
are experiencing educational difficulties, personal concerns, or struggles with normal developmental tasks.
What is individual counseling?
100
Providing opportunities for students to do more in-depth investigations of career paths.
What is career exploration?
100
Grade Level Expectation
What does GLE stand for?
200
Academic Development, Social/Emotional Development, and Career Development
What are the content areas for the Missouri School Counseling program?
200
School counselors will communicate with teachers and
other staff members to provide information and receive feedback on the emerging needs of students.
What is consultation/collaboration?
200
Providing services to students who are experiencing similar concerns. Topics could include things such as social skills, anger management, relationships, grief, and study
skills.
What is small group counseling?
200
Mixers, Tours & Orientation, Open House & Parent Evenings
Grade-Level Assemblies
What are some transition activities?
200
Material that school counselors teach in the classroom to help students with learning the Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) of the school counseling curriculum. They may teach alone, in teams, and/or assist the classroom teacher when delivering.
What is a classroom unit and lesson?
300
The program's mission and vision, advisory council, budgets, staffing patterns, and school counseling resources
What are some examples of a school counseling program's foundation or structural components?
300
The school counselor plans and manages task
needed to support activities conducted in the district’s comprehensive school counseling program. Such activities might include: conducting time on task analyses, developing a yearly calendar of activities, or developing a yearly budget.
What is program management?
300
School counselors facilitate the processes needed to respond to a building/district crisis, such as student death, suicide, accidents, natural disasters, violence, etc. School counselors also work to assist students dealing with personal crises, including self‐harm threats, homelessness, abuse/neglect, violence, family loss and other situations.
What is crisis intervention?
300
An intentional process of planning, monitoring, and managing academic, career, and social/emotional development in grades Kindergarten through 12.
What is the definition of individual student planning ?
300
The skills, knowledge, and attitudes that all students
need to acquire should be the instructional responsibility of a comprehensive school counseling program.
What are grade level expectations?
400
Human Resources (counselors, parents, teachers, administers), Financial Resources (budget, facilities), or Political Resources (ethical standards, school board policies, local school district guidelines)
What are some examples of resources within the Missouri Comprehensive School Counseling Program?
400
Representative stakeholders should be invited to be
members and it is recommended that a minimum of two meetings per year be convened for the committee to review and make recommendations for the program.
What is the School Counseling Program Advisory Council?
400
An interactive process that school counselors provide to help
parents/guardians, teachers, and administrators address the social/emotional, academic and career needs of students.
What is consultation?
400
Providing students with a way to frame their career and
educational planning using a language about careers that does not limit their options but expands them
by helping them envision a number of ways in which their skills and interests can be used.
What is a personal plan of study?
400
Curriculum is delivered through strategies such as classroom lessons and educational assemblies.
What are some ways to deliver curriculum?
500
A counselor could be compassionate, a good listener, flexible, caring, a leader, supporter, advocate, understanding, trustworthy, creative, a multitasker, mentor, advisor, collaborator, and many more.
What are some qualities of a good counselor?
500
School counselors promote the activities of the program to various stakeholder groups.
What is program advocacy?
500
When brief counseling is not sufficient to address the needs of the student, the school counselor may suggest to parents that a referral to an outside practitioner and/or agency for extended counseling services may be appropriate.
What is the referral process?
500
Educational & Career Planning, Transition Activities, Appraisal for Decision-Making.
What is included in the implementation of individual student planning?
500
To facilitate students’ optimal growth and
development by assisting them in acquiring competencies that promote social/emotional development,
academic development, and career development.
What is the purpose of school counseling curriculum?