School counselor

I witnessed myself several times throughout the activity trying to assimilate new information to what I thought was right or made sense. As a counselor, I will come into contact with people whose views and experiences are drastically different from my own. I will need to maintain self awareness when interacting with clients so that I able to recognize when I am judging what the client is saying rather than using empathy to understand how the client feels in relation to what they are saying,…

recently immigrated to the United States, and there are many factors in place that could be interfering with his academic performance. The important thing is that his teachers and counselors have implemented a team that can guide them into the cause of Alberto’s academic performance issues and will help him succeed through his school years. Selecting the proper assessment test based on the child’s age and language skill is crucial to ensure accurate information will be obtained. The two tests I…

How would it feel to forcibly miss school for two weeks? Would you ever have expected this to relate to your years of hard work? I never realized how true, “hard work pays off,” until discovering that from the past, it would determine part of my future (Ray Bradbury). It was the third week of September 2014, the week when I was mentally incapacitated and stressed, and it wasn’t because I was autistic or broke serious school laws. In fact, I was worried because I wanted stay a good student.…

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the education system. Schools exclude all aspects of the LGBT+ community in their curriculum. These schools generally have higher bullying rates and lower grades. Representation for LGBT+ Youth in schools would lead to a safer, more positive learning environment. Bullying in school has always been an obvious issue. There are multiple clubs and campaigns to put an end to bullying and counselors give presentations to help prevent it. Although these…

A challenging situation at my high school has been handling the drug abuse epidemic in our community. Unfortunately, my hometown of Avon Lake has had many young people die from heroin overdoses. My 24 year old neighbor overdosed a few years ago and I witnessed how his death devastated his parents. The drug epidemic has continued to plague my community and recently my high school was part of a BBC documentary “Smack in Suburbia -- America's Heroin Crisis”. The documentary takes a…

My high school has a zero-tolerance policy when it pertains to fighting. Therefore, it does not matter if you are not the instigator of a fight; it is an automatic suspension. Unfortunately, on two occasions, I was suspended and both times for fighting. The first incident occurred in October 2016, because female students were repeatedly bullying and calling me derogatory “black” names due to my dark skin tone. The second time was at a football match, hosted at another school in November 2017,…

reasons students are accepted in different schools. Most of these factors have a lot to do with the student's GPA in high school, extracurricular activities such as honors societies and such, as well as what classes the student had been taking in high school. It is very important that the new high school student begin thinking about college in their first year. In addition, there are counselors available for students to speak with every day at the school and should utilize this benefit whenever…

In today’s society, it is easy for students to get overlooked. Especially, in a classroom setting of 20 or more students. Therefore, helping students with a learning disability is even more perplexed in terms of developing trust, self-esteem and individuality. For a student to flourish amongst other students, staff and administration must understand the importance of being mindful and empathetic to each student. In the video clip “Poker Chips” the speaker helps us to understand how certain…

The whole idea of arming teachers is irresponsible and ultimately absurd. Arming teachers would be a careless way to spend valuable school funds. According to a Washington Post analysis if we followed Presidents Trumps plans to twenty percent of teachers the cost would be quite high. In total there are 3.6 million private and public-school teachers in the nation. Twenty percent of that would be 718,000 educators. To arm those teachers, they would need to invest in basic gun safety courses and…

plan for schools” by Elizabeth Harris. The main idea states that school chancellor and the Department of Education will put new ways to avert bullying after some incidents with students occurred at the Wildlife Conservation school at the Bronx. The author’s thesis is that New York City makes an online portal where anyone can report bullying or anything that threatens the safety of a student. Elizabeth gives no indication as to why she feels this way regarding bullying taking place in schools.…