Tuesday, February 8, 2011

"Changed Impressions"

I do see that guidance counselors have an enormous amount of duties placed on them on a daily basis, and even the amount of time that they are allotted to spend on a particular task is watched closely. There is just one thing that I read from the websites that I cannot let go without mentioning, even though I am not sure this is the correct blog to mention it. It came from the 3rd link, where we could view education courses guidance counselors take in order to become a counselor and there was just one section that really caught my eye. We all know that in college there are often those sections of classes where we have a choice of picking one class out of a group of three or four, well if you were like me, sometimes you made your choice looking for the "easy 'A' ". Guidance counseling students were told to choose one out of three of the following classes: Aspects of Addiction, Family Systems, or Play Therapy. Just looking at those classes it would appear that possibly the easy way out (and also possibly a fun course) would be play therapy, but I would really hope that the counselors that I am sending a troubled student down to see would have taken one of the other two courses. I am not sure why this got my dander up, but it did.

1 comment:

  1. Brandon~

    I do agree with you because like you we all have "been there, done that" with a counselor. The counselors of today do have a tremendous responsibility to navigate a student through a series of classes in hopes of getting the student through high school successfully and onto a successful college career.

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