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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Rewards and Challenges
I believe the greatest reward for a Guidance Counselor is seeing that kid who everyone thought wasn't going to make it become successful. After a few years of the stress and frustration working with a student going through difficult struggles, then seeing them slowly getting it together and becoming successful, has to be good feeling. It has to be feel good knowing you were a part of that process. It must be equally challenging seeing a good student slowly crumble from the the pressures of growing up in a tough environment. We see it in the classroom, but counselors deals with more students and because of their responsibilities, they are more intimately involved with the students personal lives.
I totally agree. This must be one of the biggest highs and the lowest lows for a counselor. We do see these students in our classes, and we are able to bond with them somewhat, but the counselors should have somewhat of a more intimate knowledge of their life.
ReplyDeleteThis being said, it ties back in to one of my posts, because I think that if the counselors had a smaller case-load of students to work with or less duties to deal with that possibly some of these students that were beginning to crumble could be saved, or more of the low students could be raised up to the top of the mountain.