Conferencing As A School Counselor

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The WCSCM, suggests 80% of school counselors time is spent with face-to-face contact with students and their parents/guardians. Conferencing comprises activities involving the school counselor, the student, and their parents. Each student discusses ways to plan, monitor, and manage their own learning; in addition to, their personal and career development. At my high school placement, I observed and facilitated freshman individual conferences. Due to the considerable size of the freshman class, some of the conferences were accomplished one-on-one, with the student and parent, or in a group setting. I looked up each freshman student who had not completed a conference, and complied a list of the student’s resource times. Because of time constraints,

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