tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68092693071604845812024-02-25T23:44:42.012-08:00The Passionate School CounselorTraceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101071190581908650noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809269307160484581.post-10647485505826737132019-02-10T12:27:00.000-08:002019-02-10T12:29:29.063-08:00Maryland School Counselor Association Elementary School Counselor of the Year<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Check out my speech at the Maryland School Counselor Association</span><span style="color: #14171a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Recognition Gala. It was a honor to be recognized & was a fabulous way to end National School Counseling Week!! I had such a great week advocating for our profession. </span></span><br />
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<br />Traceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101071190581908650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809269307160484581.post-49600008313796201852019-02-10T12:09:00.001-08:002019-02-10T12:12:48.086-08:00National School Counseling Week 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After advocating and celebrating school counselors this week, I decided it is a great week to start a new blog post. I haven’t blogged since 2013. So much has happened and so much new knowledge to share.<br />
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I was honored to be recognized by the Maryland School Counselor Association as the Elementary School Counselor of the Year. The recognition came at the end of National School Counseling Week. I had a great week advocating for our school counseling profession.<br />
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When I first became a school counselor, I didn't really advocate for the profession during this week. The more I talk to people the more I realized a lot of people have no idea what elementary school counselors do daily. I celebrated and advocated this week I provided my colleagues with facts about the profession as well as data about my program.<br />
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<br />Traceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101071190581908650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809269307160484581.post-75187579393417038782013-11-03T19:46:00.001-08:002013-11-03T19:46:48.978-08:00Resources from Maryland State Counselor Association MSCABelow are some resources that were shared at the Maryland State Counselor Association graduate seminar. <br />
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I wanted to share resources from the Maryland State Counselor Assoication Graduate Seminar that was held on October 26th. This is wonderful resource that gives you lessons along with other resources at every grade level in each domain.<br />
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The event is held from 9 until 3 and I provide lunch for all of the students. </span><div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Teambuilding Games:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taste of the Rainbow</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students had to use the assistance of their teammates to place skittles on the right color paper.</span></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZosuy2fUFzd7yMMYrA76wBtJ5L7qbhG379IdgQ_5G-gfHxV5nPm1t1dx7_tp0ox6E3s9Lw_OMXTwjjireUn2WAt5E9cVSsyWSrRjjM7-bfqM1mU_P6hlVJdl4yfXZmj3UcfX6m5GQWsM/s640/blogger-image-1187499956.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZosuy2fUFzd7yMMYrA76wBtJ5L7qbhG379IdgQ_5G-gfHxV5nPm1t1dx7_tp0ox6E3s9Lw_OMXTwjjireUn2WAt5E9cVSsyWSrRjjM7-bfqM1mU_P6hlVJdl4yfXZmj3UcfX6m5GQWsM/s640/blogger-image-1187499956.jpg"></a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cotton Hockey</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students had to use straws in order to get cotton balls into a bowl.</span></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0i4kS94xDBc3LUcx0Uudcef03lEJhqCjdepDXe3nQd0fcBXTePu1ELLs1ZVl2ViEtyD1PdPEtIUzsdIKJI63y6Q49wwlMxOGfqmGBeLI5fqe1YAr1XPA-gqfHM3pQJVS9-JZCmFcLtpU/s640/blogger-image--1404616954.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0i4kS94xDBc3LUcx0Uudcef03lEJhqCjdepDXe3nQd0fcBXTePu1ELLs1ZVl2ViEtyD1PdPEtIUzsdIKJI63y6Q49wwlMxOGfqmGBeLI5fqe1YAr1XPA-gqfHM3pQJVS9-JZCmFcLtpU/s640/blogger-image--1404616954.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Build a Playground</div></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students were given masking tape, straws, play doh, yarn, pipe cleaners, and paper clips to build a playground. 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After returning from the ASCA conference I decided to try out my vision board guidance lesson with fifth grade. I spent time over the summer cutting out lots of pictures so that I can have pictures precut to save time during the lesson. I cut out pictures of pets, houses, cars, families, people and careers, travel destinations, words of affirmation, and letters. This lesson took two thirty minute class periods to complete. <br />
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Students glued down there pictures and then wrote about their vision board. I learned a lot about the students through the vision board. I used the vision board to help them determine the magnet school choice for middle school based on the vision board. Some students illustrated pictures and wrote about things that concerned me and I was able to have a personal conversation with the students to address the issues. Looking back on this lesson, I only wish that I had started doing vision boards with students sooner.<br />
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Traceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101071190581908650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809269307160484581.post-67674636623814017122013-07-03T08:22:00.002-07:002013-07-14T16:08:40.555-07:00Liberty and Learning for All<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just came back from the ASCA conference and I am feeling so energized! </span><br />
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10. I need to get a business card. I was talking with a district supervisor from Richmond, Virginia and he asked a lot of questions about my program. He asked me for my business card and I did not have one. I later learned that I can get business cards from my county for free.<br />
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9. I need to do the treasure hunt every year at the exhibit hall. This was my first year doing the treasure hunt and I won a gift card to North Face. Thanks to <span style="color: #009933; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">www.</span><b style="color: #009933; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">yoga4classrooms</b><span style="color: #009933; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: nowrap;">.com</span> for sponsoring that gift.<br />
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8. I went to a session on integrated curriculum and I learned additional ways to integrate the counseling curriculum with other subjects. This will be especially important with the common core.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7. Every year I have a student that touches him/herself inappropriately or other people. I found this book that I think will be a great resource to help these students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6. I went to the create a vision for your kids session and created my own vision board. I am going to have my 5th graders create vision boards and relate it to their goals. If you can physically see what you want then you are more likely to achieve that goal.</span><br />
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5. In the solution focused approach to anger management I learned a lot about myself as I did a psychoanalyst using a walk in the woods. You forget how beneficial this can be as you get to know or understand a student.<br />
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4. This is the first year that more than 2 people including myself attended the conference. It was nice to connect and get to know my colleagues.<br />
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3. Chef Jeff's story was such an inspiration and made you realize that dreams can come true. He made me look at how I talk to kids about careers. The question should be what is your American dream and how are you going to go about making the dream a reality. He also talked about who you aspire to be,finding role models, and learning about how they became successful and modeling yourself after them.<br />
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2. There is so much technology that can be used with kids or to help make life easier.<br />
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<b>Book Crawler Lite</b>- you can categorize your books by scanning the bar code</div>
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<b>Create Comix</b>- you can have students create their own comic books</div>
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<b>Live Binder</b>-instead of having lots of binders and no place for storage create your own online binder with this site</div>
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<b>Moodturn.com</b> - has relaxing music, landscapes, and colors to help relax<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. This is my third conference and I always travel alone. This year my former intern Charlee went with me and we had a great time at the conference. I enjoy working with interns because you can learn so much from them. Interns are eager to learn and soak up everything like a sponge and share all of this new learning with you. She describes me as a travel guide and companion in one. I describe her as a wealth of new knowledge and energy! </span></div>
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Traceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101071190581908650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6809269307160484581.post-33471029044784888272013-03-23T20:31:00.001-07:002013-03-24T13:25:37.594-07:00Passionate School CounselorWhen I started thinking about creating a blog I thought about the roles of a school counselor. I wrote down all of the roles and responsibilities that are associated with my job. After I created my list I began to create the name for my blog....Passionate School Counselor. So what exactly does that mean?<br />
<b>Preventive</b> - School Counselors go into classrooms to do guidance lessons in order to be preventive and teach social skills, problem solving skills, and many other topics.<br />
<b>Academic</b>- School Counselors help students by running academic skills groups, help with transitions into kindergarten and middle school, test taking strategies, and how to be a better student.<br />
<b>System</b><br />
<b>Support- </b>School Counselors support and partner with Pupil Personal Workers, Teachers, Social Workers.<br />
<b>Individual</b>- School Counselors meet with students for academic goal setting, personal/social issues.<br />
<b>Organized</b>- When I think about the organization that it takes to run groups, schedule classroom guidance lessons, career day, and the list goes on, I could not go without mentioning organized.<br />
<b>Nurture and Develop</b>- Children need us to help them to develop into positive and respectful citizens. <br />
<b>Advocate</b>- School Counselors advocate for all students.<br />
<b>Team Player- </b>In order to make the best educational decisions for students everyone in the school must work together.<br />
<b>Educate</b>- School Counselors not only educate students, but teachers and the community.Traceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05101071190581908650noreply@blogger.com0