Changed Impressions

My impression of the guidance counselor’s role has not changed much. The role they serve is one that I still find to be very important, possibly even more so. I was very interested in the history and origin of counseling in the U.S. I found it intriguing that teachers held the role of counselor in the beginning and that it was mostly to do with the vocational direction of the students. I was surprised to learn that it is the counselors’ role to give more individual direction for the students’ future and that the counselors are trying to be a preventative to the irresponsible decisions that a young person can at times be persuaded into making. I believe that, just as the teachers, the main responsibility for the counselor can be watered down and diverted away from the students by all of the outside requirements placed on them by the administrations and districts. These very informative articles have opened my eyes more so to their role in the school and even sparked my interest in the possibility of take on one of these types of positions in the future.