Welcome! Elementary Professional School Counselors’ Support Services Meeting February 19, 2015...

Welcome!

Elementary Professional School Counselors’ Support Services Meeting

February 19, 2015

Education Service Center, Region 2 - 209 N. Water Street – Corpus Christi, TX 78401 – www.esc2.net

http://www.esc2.net/

Agenda Ethics Updates Comprehensive Guidance Program – evaluation

and data collection CTE – What Counselor’s Need to Know College & Career Readiness Counseling Career Inventories Networking Reminders Upcoming Events



Ethics


You can't practice risk free - no matter what we do there is risk

Who sets the standards?What one word will keep you out of trouble?What do they entail?5 moral principles for ethical decision

making


Updates K-12 Fine Arts for the 15-16 year but not many changes CLI Engage - new comprehensive professional

development supplemental curriculum, and progress monitoring for early childhood programs - best practices made available to public schools and free for fall of 2015 www.cliengage.org

Advocacy and timing at the state level to bring attention to school counselors last legislative session - changed all terms to one - professional school counselor. Several bills introduced for current legislative session - Need

greater advocacy at state level for counselors - administrators advocate for local control regarding amount of time spent on duties and allocation of funds - overpowers proposed bills.


http://www.cliengage.org/


Comprehensive Guidance Program Evaluation Guidance Document

Evaluation is a critical component of a developmental guidance and counseling program and ensures accountability. The purpose of evaluation is to determine the value of the program, its activities, and staff in order to make decisions or to take actions regarding the future. The evaluation will measure the delivery of services (the process evaluation) and outcomes (product evaluation). This ongoing process provides information to ensure continuous improvement of the guidance program and gives direction to necessary changes.

1. How effective have the program improvements been?

2. Does the program meet the program standards?

3. Have students become competent in the high priority content areas?

4. How well are counselors performing their roles?


http://tea.texas.gov/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147494479



1. How effective have the program improvements been?

Program improvement identifies the objectives and strategies to be accomplished through implementation of a list of tasks within an expressed time line. It provides a basis for determining whether the objectives and the time lines were met. Further, it supports judgments as to the effectiveness of the improvements in attaining goals and provides the basis for the next set of program improvements.

As a result of designing program improvements, new expectations for counselor performance emerge. These expectations form the basis for the setting of professional growth goals by school counselors. Similar to program improvement plans, professional growth plans establish the objectives for developing specific skills or knowledge, identify the strategies for attaining the objectives, and specify the time lines.





2. Does the program meet the program standards?

A fully implemented and supported guidance and counseling program will have a measurable impact on students, parents, faculty, and the school climate. Because the evaluation is based on explicitly stated standards, data collection and analysis will describe the level of implementation of the program, the effectiveness of the guidance program, and the level of goal attainment.





3. Have students become competent in the high priority content areas?

Evaluating student competency development in a guidance program is critical to keeping the program efforts on target and efficient while simultaneously making the best use of the resources available. Effective evaluation must be carefully planned to include needs assessment and development of goals, targeting competencies, specifying expected results by grade level and setting objectives for specific activities.





4. How well are counselors performing their roles?

Because the quality of the guidance program is inextricably linked with the performance of the school counselor, counselor performance evaluation is critical to the improvement and maintenance of the developmental guidance and counseling program. The developmental guidance and counseling program framework also includes standards for the counselor’s job performance, expressed in the responsibilities of the professional school counselor and in each counselor’s specific job description in the local program.

Using the counselor’s job description as a guide, a relevant performance evaluation system and instrument can be used. School counselors should be appropriately supervised. Whenever possible, evaluations of school counselors’ performance should be the responsibility of certified counselors or someone specifically trained in school counselor supervision and evaluation.




Comprehensive Guidance Program Data collection related to the comprehensive guidance program:

Track minutes spent

Judson ISD



What Counselors Need to Know about CTE



CTE’s Role in Career Guidance Tea Party Activity

Step One: Read the concern to yourself a few times. Think about the kinds of connections you can make about what you read.

Step Two: Move around the room and read your concern to others. When you pair up, take turns reading.Next, discuss your concern.What are some solutions you’ve been working on at

your district that you can share?



Continuum of Personalized & Applied Learning

Elementary Middle School High School

Career Education

Career Exploration

Career Preparation

What kinds of structures support school and out-of-school learning opportunities?

Counselors must advise elementary and middle school students and parents of the importance of postsecondary education.

Counselors must annually provide information about postsecondary

education, including advantages of earning an endorsement,

performance acknowledgment, and distinguished level of achievement

to the student and parent.



Supporting a Comprehensive Counseling & Guidance System

System Framewor

k

Individual Student

Planning

Guidance Curriculu

m

Responsive Services

System Supports

Research shows that comprehensive counseling and guidance systems result in students:

having access to more college and career information,

being more purposeful in their course selections,

reaching higher levels of academic achievement, and

feeling that their education has better prepared them for their future.



Helping Students

Activities to meet students’ immediate needs when they experience problems that interfere with their success in school.

Attainable Goal

Setting

Administer Career

Assessments

Peer Coaching

Aspiration vs.

Performance

Responsive

Services



Team Building

Allows guidance counselors sufficient time to carry out guidance program management and evaluation work, community collaboration, committee work and required administrative tasks.

Those with Strong

Connections to CTE

Work-Based Learning

Facilitators

Career Coaches

CTE Administrato

rs

CTE & Core Teachers

Career Development Specialist

System Supports


Joye Beard, Ph.D.

CTE Specialist

[email protected]


College & Career Readiness Counseling http://

media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/advocacy/nosca/11b-4383_ES_Counselor_Guide_WEB_120213.pdf

http://vacareerview.org/pro/toolkits/toolkits/exploring-career-clusters

http://breitlinks.com/careers/career_pdfs/careeractivitiesbook.pdf

http://www.careeronestop.org/Videos/CareerandClusterVideos/career-and-cluster-videos.aspx

http://www.lmci.state.tx.us/shared/PDFs/careerinvestigation.pdf

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/advocacy/nosca/11b-4382_MS_Counselor_Guide_WEB_120213.pdf

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/nosca/11b-4151_HS_Counselor_Guide_web.pdf

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/nosca/11b_4393_counseling_page_WEB_111107.pdf?affiliateId=noscahero&bannerId=resources


http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/advocacy/nosca/11b-4383_ES_Counselor_Guide_WEB_120213.pdf























Career Assessments



http://www.risd.org/ccr/PDFs/Career%20Clusters%20kids%20can%20understand.pdf

Career Inventories

http://assessment.texasgenuine.org/

Student Interest Inventory

http://vacareerview.org/resources/pdf/publications/exploringcareerclusters/Career%20Cluster%20Activity%20Pages%20for%20K-2.pdf


http://assessment.texasgenuine.org/






Networking

Share celebrations

What is your main struggle/stressor right now?




Reminders:Texas Administrative Code


TITLE 19 EDUCATIONPART 7 STATE BOARD FOR EDUCATOR CERTIFICATIONCHAPTER 232 GENERAL CERTIFICATION PROVISIONSSUBCHAPTER A

CERTIFICATE RENEWAL AND CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

RULE §232.11

Number and Content of Required Continuing Professional Education Hours

Every 5 years on the last day of your birth month

Keep track of your CPEs

TEAL account access needed


http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=2&ti=19

http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=3&ti=19&pt=7

http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=4&ti=19&pt=7&ch=232

http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=5&ti=19&pt=7&ch=232&sch=A&rl=Y

http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.ViewTAC?tac_view=5&ti=19&pt=7&ch=232&sch=A&rl=Y

http://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=T&app=9&p_dir=N&p_rloc=167222&p_tloc=&p_ploc=1&pg=2&p_tac=&ti=19&pt=7&ch=232&rl=11

Upcoming Events iDiscovery event on February 28th – see flyer

Discuss April and May meeting dates




Comments & Questions

Stephanie Smith

Federal Programs & Counseling Specialist

[email protected]

361-561-8567


mailto:[email protected]



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