PRESSLEY RIDGE LAUREL PARK //COUNSELING PROGRAM

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES//TIME MANAGEMENT

Direct and Indirect students services should account for 80 percent of more of the
Professional School Counselors time spent (ASCA, 2012). Below are a sample of appropriate
direct and indirect student services and inappropriate time usage activities for the Professional
School Counselor from the ASCA National Model:
Appropriate Activities for School Counselors:
- Individual student planning
- Interpreting cognitive, aptitude, and achievement tests
- Provide counseling to students for: tardiness/absence/truancy, disciplinary issues, proper
school dress
- Collaborating with teachers to present core curriculum lessons
- Analyzing GPA in relationship to achievement
- Interpreting student records
- Providing classroom management suggestions
- Ensuring student records are maintained as per state and federal regulation
- Help the administration identify and resolve student issues, needs, and problems
- Provide individual small-group counseling services to students
- Advocating for students at individual education plan meetings, student study teams, and
school attendance review boards
- Analyzing disaggregated data
Inappropriate Activities for School Counselors:
- Coordinating paperwork and data entry of all new students
- Coordinating testing programs
- Signing excuses for tardy/absent students
- Performing disciplinary actions or assigning disciplinary consequences
- Sending students home for inappropriate dress
- Serving as a substitute teacher
- Computing GPAs
- Maintaining student records
- Supervising classrooms or common areas
- Keeping clerical records
- Assisting with duties in the administration office
- Providing long-term therapy in schools to address psychological disorders
- Coordinating school wide individual education plans, study teams, and school attendance
review boards.
- Serving as a data entry clerk

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WEEKLY CALENDAR
Week of 3/28/16-4/1/16
G: Guidance Curriculum I: Individual Student Planning,
S: System Support, R: Responsive Services
Time
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
7:30-8 am
S:
S: Weekly
S:
S:
S:
Collaborate
admin.
Collaborate Collaborate Collaborate
with
Meeting.
with
with
with
teachers &
Check
teachers &
teachers &
teachers &
admin.
email.
admin.
admin.
admin.
Greet
Greet
Greet
Greet
students.
students.
students.
students.
Check
Check
Check
Check
email.
email.
email.
email.
8-8:30 am
S:
R:
R:
R:
R:
Collaborate Responsive Responsive Responsive Responsive
with A-team
Services
Services
Services
Services
teachers
8:30- 9 am
R:
S:
R:
S:
R:
Responsive Collaborate Responsive Collaborate Responsive
Services
with social
Services
with social
Services
workers &
workers &
DHHR
DHHR
workers
workers
9- 9:30 am
S:
R:
R:
R:
R:
Collaborate Responsive Responsive Responsive Responsive
with B-team
Services
Services
Services
Services
teachers
9:30-10:15
G:
G:
G:
G:
G:
am
Classroom
Classroom
Classroom
Classroom
Classroom
Guidance:
Guidance:
Guidance:
Guidance:
Guidance:
REBT
REBT
REBT
REBT
REBT
"Testing
"Testing
"Testing
"Testing
"Testing
Your
Your
Your
Your
Your
Anxiety"
Anxiety"
Anxiety"
Anxiety"
Anxiety"
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Johnson's
Wilson's
Devito's
Corley's
Pluto's
classroom
classroom
classroom
classroom
classroom
10:15- 11
I:
I:
I:
I:
I:
am
Individual
Individual
Individual
Individual
Individual
Student
Student
Student
Student
Student
Planning
Planning
Planning
Planning
Planning
11-11:30 am
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch

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11:30-12
noon

G: Small
Group:
Leadership
Skills

I:
Individual
Student
Planning

G: Small
Group:
Leadership
Skills

I:
Individual
Student
Planning

I:
Individual
Student
Planning

12-12:30
pm

R:
Responsive
Services
I: Planning
S:
Collaborate
with C-team
teachers
G:
Classroom
Guidance:
REBT
"Testing
Your
Anxiety"
Mr.
France's
classroom
R:
Responsive
Services
S: Parent
Phone Calls;
Schedule
meetings

R:
Responsive
Services
I: Planning
R:
Responsive
Services

R:
Responsive
Services
S:
Supervision
phone call

R:
Responsive
Services
I: Planning
R:
Responsive
Services

R:
Responsive
Services
I: Planning
R:
Responsive
Services

G:
Classroom
Guidance:
REBT
"Testing
Your
Anxiety"
Mrs.
Strand's
classroom
R:
Responsive
Services
S: Parent
Phone
Calls;
Schedule
meetings
R:
Responsive
Services

G:
Classroom
Guidance:
REBT
"Testing
Your
Anxiety"
Mrs.
Cannady's
classroom
R:
Responsive
Services
S: Parent
Phone
Calls;
Schedule
meetings
R:
Responsive
Services

G:
Classroom
Guidance:
REBT
"Testing
Your
Anxiety"
Mr. Boyle's
classroom

G:
Classroom
Guidance:
REBT
"Testing
Your
Anxiety"
Mrs. Jones'
classroom

R:
Responsive
Services
S: SAT
meeting

R:
Responsive
Services
S: Parent
Phone
Calls;
Schedule
meetings
R:
Responsive
Services

12:30-1 pm
1-1:30 pm

1:30-2:15
pm

2:15-2:30
pm
2:30-3 pm

3-3:30 pm

S:
Collaborate
with Dteam
teachers

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ANNUAL CALENDAR 2015-2016
August
Foundation Activities
Introduce ourselves to administration and faculty at first meeting.
Create and Administer student assessment survey to all students
Create School Counseling program geared towards needs of student population
Management Activities
Introduce ourselves to students and faculty to explain role of counselor
Send newsletter out to parents introducing the school counseling program and its
purpose (ongoing, monthly)
Delivery Activities
Assist in registering new students (ongoing, as needed)
School counselor introduction classroom guidance in each homeroom
Identify at risk students and meet with each one
Individual counseling sessions with students based on academic, personal/social,
and career issues
Schedule changes (ongoing, as needed)
Provide parents/ guardians with referrals to outside agencies to meet medical/
academic,/ basic needs (ongoing, as needed)
Make contact with community resources such as DHHR, shelters, & local mental
health facilities
Accountability Activities
Meet with administrator to develop yearlong goals
Set goals for gathering data
Collect data and apply to school-wide academic/ social/ and career goals
September
Foundation Activities
Share school counseling program with administrators, parents, and community
Management Activities
Hold first advisory council meeting
Send newsletter to parents (ongoing, monthly)
Delivery Activities
Begin Kindness Project classroom guidance curriculum (ongoing, weekly)
Begin Leadership Skills group counseling curriculum
Meet with grade levels to get feedback on student academic and behavioral/
emotional physical needs
Begin behavior plans for students struggling with behavioral, attention, and
academic issues
Conduct meetings and reward students for improved attendance
Train peer support teams for new students
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Accountability Activities
Analyze Smarter Balanced assessment data results and share with faculty
October
Management Activities
Send newsletter to parents (ongoing, monthly)
Delivery Activities
Introductions to classrooms and begin regular guidance lessons (ongoing)
Organize awards for the first nine weeks
Red Ribbon Week activities
End Leadership skills group counseling curriculum
Accountability Activities
Assess behavior plans and make changes
November
Management Activities
Send newsletter to parents (ongoing, monthly)
Hold second Advisory Council meeting
Review and revise school counseling program calendar
Delivery Activities
Begin small group Banana Splits counseling group (ongoing, weekly)
December
Management Activities
Send newsletter to parents (ongoing, monthly)
Delivery Activities
Diversity classroom lessons in specialty classrooms
Facilitate Holiday Toy Drive/ Food Pantry for Soup Opera
Organize awards for the second nine weeks
End small group Banana Splits counseling group
January
Management Activities
Send newsletter to parents (ongoing, monthly)
Hold third Advisory Council meeting
Delivery Activities
Present to faculty test taking strategies to implement in classrooms
Present to faculty test taking strategies to parents/ guardians at Parent Night
February
Management Activities
Send newsletter to parents (ongoing, monthly)
Delivery Activities
National School Counseling Week activities (i.e. dress like your favorite counselor
day)
Accountability Activities
Collect pre-test data on testing anxiety
March

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Management Activities
Send newsletter to parents (ongoing, monthly)
Delivery Activities
Begin planning for transitions orientation and school visits
Gather and review list of at-risk students with administrator and teams at the end
of the marking period
Begin Testing your Anxiety classroom guidance curriculum
Accountability Activities
Collect post-test data on testing anxiety
April
Management Activities
Send newsletter to parents (ongoing, monthly)
Delivery Activities
Hold parent/ guardian information session on transition from middle to high
school
Continue small group counseling, individual counseling and classroom guidance
Accountability Activities
Meet with administration and teacher teams concerning scheduling for next year
Begin planning for the following year
May
Management Activities
Send newsletter to parents (ongoing, monthly)
Hold last Advisory Council meeting
Review and revise school counseling program calendar for the next year
Delivery Activities
Support Smarter Balanced school wide testing
Accountability Activities
Disaggregate data from school counselor program evaluations and prepare data
reports to be shared with stakeholders
June
Management Activities
Send newsletter to parents (ongoing, monthly)
Delivery Activities
Meet with administrators and teacher concerning retention/ promotion decisions
Meet with administrators to review yearly goals and counselor evaluation
Assist in organizing awards for last nine weeks
Send newsletters out to inform parents/ guardians about summer activities and
opportunities
Accountability Activities
Meet with administrators to share results of school counseling programs;
disseminate to other stakeholders

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