Four Lessons From The Field Essay

My field is education, specifically, birth through kindergarten and elementary education. Education has had a number of issues in the past; some of them still exist today. To narrow my focus, I looked at a number of articles, online magazines, and electronic journals. These included topics such preschool to kindergarten transitions, teacher assistants and driver’s education classes, being a teacher in your mid-career, school shootings, and using technology in the classroom. The vast majorities of these sources are from the ProQuest database and range from articles, magazines, scholarly journals, to Professional journals. And they gave good enough details and information on each and every topic.

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H., C.S. Carlisle and N.S. Isaacson. “School Shootings and Counselor Leadership: Four Lessons From the Field. Professional School Counseling 11(4): 246-252. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/213269662?accountid=12290

Professional School Counseling trade journals. Published 2008. Nowadays, school shootings and school lock-downs have been surfacing and this can traumatized the students. Having a counselor at school is a good thing as it can help those students in need after a tragic event. If they need someone to talk to, a school counselor can be there and, if not, the classroom teacher is always there.

This article discusses four lessons for school counselors responding to any serious crisis: (a) School counselors can expect to take on leadership roles in times of crisis due to their expertise. (b) Crisis teams are temporary organizations within a school structure. Membership in two organizations can create role conflict. (c) Effective school counselors have found subtle ways to support and counsel formal leaders. And, (d) school counselors must be vigilant in their own care, especially during a crisis. (School Shootings and Counselor Leadership: Four Lessons from the Field; Professional School