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Making the Most of Scheduling Season

Counselors' Corner

Most high school counselors have a love/hate relationship to scheduling. If building schedules is part of your duties, you get to actually see all of your students, and that’s good. On the other hand, if all you do with this time is put together a list of classes, that’s more a matter of logistics, and less a matter of counseling.

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A Note to Your Principal About National School Counseling Week

Counselors' Corner

That was my first thought for next week, which is National School Counseling Week. It’s about counseling , the work done here in the office. To meet that need, we’d like to focus on one facet of our service each day next week: Monday—What Is Counseling? That way, all students are exposed to it, but exposed only once.

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The Ultimate School Counseling Hack: ChatGPT For School Counselors

The Counseling Geek

However, traditional counseling approaches can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, making it difficult for schools to provide the level of support that students need. Develop Curriculum Another great tool that ChatGPT provides is it can create things to support your curriculum and programming.

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A Registrar’s View: Will You Graduate?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Curriculum proposing and processing is the first culprit in what I would consider the demise of a student’s dreams of completing their educational journey. Like the curriculum processing, there are academic departments that abandon concentrations within their majors because of the lack of faculty available to teach the course.

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Transferring to High School? Remember the Five Cs

Counselors' Corner

This is the time of year when counselor chat rooms are filled with posts like “Thinking about interviewing for a high school counseling position. Curriculum Most of the people on hiring committees don’t know that, just like there’s a math curriculum and an English curriculum, high schools are supposed to have a counseling curriculum.

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To Improve College Access

Counselors' Corner

Better counselor training The National Association for College Admission Counseling has stopped keeping track, but at last count a few years ago, only two dozen of the hundreds of counselor training programs in the US offered a course uniquely focused on college counseling. Then again, so are more counselors.

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New Mental Health Resources? Make the Most of Them

Counselors' Corner

Best use of time Too many adults remember their school counselor as the person who changed their schedule, or did lunch duty. Tailored curriculum With a number of new, pre-packaged mental health programs available to schools, it may be tempting to pick one and see it as an easy add-on to the current counseling curriculum.