I believe that counseling is such an underused and misunderstand field when it comes to students and adults. Counseling is a large field that with commitment, time and effort, I believe that most if not all problems can be worked out. With a counseling perspective on ELL students over all mental health, we can tackle the emotional side of learning a new language. ELL students are faced with a host of problems, for anxiety, discrimination, exploitation, rejection, depression, and many, many other issues. My big question is who is counseling the ELL students? As a school counselor I have to ensure that the students needs specially the needs of ELL students are being met. It is not only my job to help the students process their feelings it is my job to ensure that they are being properly taken care of, by the teachers, staff, students, and their parents.
My main goal is to ensure that I am meeting all the needs of my students. I want to make myself avabile to help get extra recoucrs, get tutoring, give counseling and even provide family support. I know that earing a new language is so very hard. I’ve personally struggled with learning Spanish for …show more content…
Students are so fragile and one bad experience can alter their thinking or change them forever. I really want to help the ELL students because I’m not seeing to many people that really care about them. ELL students have the same rights and responsibilities but yet they are treated like second-class citizens. I know that I won’t be physically teaching the students everyday, but I do believe that I will play a major role in their lives. Learning a new language is so difficult and they need all the support that is avablie. I would do my best to keep the parents involved. However, they may not speak full English also it is important have them help the students and in return the students will help them with
My main goal is to ensure that I am meeting all the needs of my students. I want to make myself avabile to help get extra recoucrs, get tutoring, give counseling and even provide family support. I know that earing a new language is so very hard. I’ve personally struggled with learning Spanish for …show more content…
Students are so fragile and one bad experience can alter their thinking or change them forever. I really want to help the ELL students because I’m not seeing to many people that really care about them. ELL students have the same rights and responsibilities but yet they are treated like second-class citizens. I know that I won’t be physically teaching the students everyday, but I do believe that I will play a major role in their lives. Learning a new language is so difficult and they need all the support that is avablie. I would do my best to keep the parents involved. However, they may not speak full English also it is important have them help the students and in return the students will help them with