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Welcome School Counselors!!! The President's Message
As we begin the 2011-2012 school
year, it is an exciting time for school counselors.
Students are coming into our schools with excitement and
anticipation of what is going to happen this year.
In the upcoming school year I encourage and ask all of the
school counselors across the state to please join me as School
Counselors: Shaping Diamonds of Diversity. There is
a quote that comes to mind that I think really allows us to
reflex on diversity. “We could learn a lot
from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull,
while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have
learned to live together in the same box.” ~Robert
Fulghum
As school counselors working in
schools we focus on working with all students in our districts.
As a School counselor we work with the personal/social, academic
and career standards in the Pennsylvania standards and American
School Counselor Association standards. As school
counselors we are keys to helping our students become diamonds
of the future by working with them to become well rounded
students who are achieving the ultimate goal of becoming career
and work
ready.
Through the PSCA website there are
tools and resources available at a finger for school counselors
to use. The PA companion Guide to the National
Model, Standards Aligned Systems (SAS), Professional Development
Opportunities, and the addition of the PSCA Scene are just a
wealth of the diversity that are available at the finger types
of the PSCA website.
Students come to us in all sizes,
shapes, colors, races, sexes, and genders. The most
important thing is the students are our diamonds to the future.
As school counselors we have work hard throughout the school
year on all the grade levels Kindergarten through twelfth grade
to shape our students to live and work together in our world.
Through the American School Counselor Standards and the PA
Interpersonal and School Climate standards we have been given
guidance that it is important to help our students learn how to
get along, resolve conflicts, respect diversity, engage in
positive healthy relationships, respect one another, learn
responsibility and gain independence.
School Counselors teach students to
be career and work ready through a multitude of resources and
materials. Using the career and works standards students
learn about their strengths and weakness, students become in
tuned to how their strengths fall into career clusters.
Students get guidance to what options they have in front of them
by removing the barriers they may have in their lives.
School counselors take time to shape students career paths
individually one to one shaping their futures to be successful
productive members of society.
Students become academically
successful through the work we do in helping students to learn
their learning styles, study skills, strengths and weaknesses.
As school counselors we know that not all students learn alike.
Teaching and helping students how they learn best helps them to
become successful students in school and ultimately in life.
School counselor’s take the time to learn about every students
and make time to help each student shape their future.
As school counselor we realize our
students are our future. School counselors take time
to get to know their students. In the 2011-2012 school
year take time reflect on our students and what is best for
their future. As a school counselor we take time to help
shape our diamonds of diversity into successful career and work
ready students.
Michelle Brand
President
