School guidance counselors get to be a significant part of between 250-500 students lives if not more a year. That doubles if not triples the amount of students a normal teacher can be a significant part of. This significance is not only with academic issues/decisions, but with social and developmental decisions and issues. The one on one time maybe brief, but it is usual highly efficient and effective. The ripple effect the guidance counselor has on a student's family can be endless with the successful direction and guidance of one's son or daughter. I always say police work is a front row seat to the greatest show on earth. If that is true and I believe it is, guidance counselors have the next best seat in the house!
Yes Coach
ReplyDeleteYou are right . Guidance conselors do have the best seat in the house
They watch ourv children transition from middle school to awell -rounded young adult ,leaping into an educatioinal arena that will .prepare them for Life
Selina
And I for one do not want their seat. After doing this module and seeing what all they have to do I was floored. I truly believe that we have it easy after reading up on them. We deal with just our kids for the most part at school, but they deal with the entire school. It's amazing how they take just a handful of counselors and break up the alphabet and put them to work. I usually like pressure situations, but they are practically the guiding factor for these kids out the door. I'm not sure I would really want to be in their shoes. If they are the second best seat, then I want to keep watching from the grand stands :)
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