School counselor

important to work hard for your grades. Freshman year is when the setup for your future begins. It’s important to develop good study habits and time management skills. Now that grades matter, students shouldn’t be procrastinating and should try to be at school if at all possible. It’s also important to know that students don’t need to have their career path figured out by freshman year, or even senior year. Developing good study habits and time management skills during freshman year is key to…

but I also believe it’s up to the teachers to have passion in their job that they have chosen to do! It makes it that much more interesting. The implementation of new techniques to improve education falls in the hands of our licensed teachers or school administrators. Edmundson essay raises the problem of consumerism leaking into the education system. He begins by telling us of a scenario in his classroom on a day that he doesn’t particularly enjoy, evaluation day. He often gets some really good…

understand student’s needs and effectively work with our student demographic. Often, many are focused on students’ academics but are not taking into account home life, things they have seen, or their daily stressors. For that reason, I became a counselor, to be someone students can talk to in their time of need; to hone in on those social and emotional aspects which will assist in improving their academics. Currently, I am pursuing a Doctorate in the area of Community Care and Counseling. My…

My career goals in life is to become an Elementary School teacher, preferably in kindergarten. The reasons I am considering this job, is because I think that teaching young children is shaping the future of America. I love children and by helping them learn and expanding their knowledge, brings joy to my heart. Knowing that I can somehow make a small change in the world. The top three values that are most important to me have been the same all my life it seems like. Organization, being a…

the curriculum. Students can learn as many positive and negative traits from their teachers as they can from their parents. These days educators need to be more exciting, caring, and interesting for their students. Throughout my years of going to school I’ve had the amazing opportunity to be taught by teachers…

worked with high school social studies students. Both rewarding, and introspective, the experience was incredible. I examined the skills which make me most apt to work with students, while also finding some areas to grow in. Exploring the career of teaching in this course, I had an excellent opportunity to assess my desire to enter this profession. Teaching is a wonderful profession, and working with students is absolutely a passion of mine. However, after observing a high school classroom…

disservice as a counselor. Also, I encountered acting as an advocate on their behalf, and it was essential I maintained professionalism at all times.…

and their needs to be a change. There needs to be more punishment for bullies, so that they learn that it is not ok, and they will not be a bully their whole life. This will help the suicide rate from bullying go down; kids will not be scared to school, and many kids will not hate their life growing up. Bullying is not a new problem; it has been around for a long time, but people are just now becoming more aware of…

Peer Counseling Project Over the course of a week students were asked to share their opinions about Etiwanda High School and these are the results. Students were asked to rate how safe they feel at Etiwanda on a scale of one to five, with one being the least safe and five being the most. The majority of students rated Etiwanda a three or a four and only four students rated safety a one or less. When questioned on the amount of choices students have for classes 65% feel they do not have enough…

In order for our school to be effective and be able to enhance student achievement, it is important that we continually examine our practices, including the factors relative to the teachers, students, and the school. Thus, I asked three colleagues to complete Robert Marzano’s Snapshot Survey of School Effectiveness Factors, along with completing it myself. For each item listed under each key factor, the teachers had to respond to a set of three questions. Question 1 asked: To what extent do we…