Perceived Roles

My personal impressions of what the roles and responsibilities of guidance counselors were that they handle personal students in need of academic, social and emotional assistance. Counselors are there to work for the students aka "The advocate". Counselors are not there to be a disciplinarian. Counselors are involved in activities and services that will enhance students school experience. These are some of the things I thought that counselors did to make students school learning enviornment better. Meeting with classroom teacher to discuss difficulty of students. Reviewing current and past report card as well as graduation and end of course test scores of student in question. Set up meeting with parents and other committee members. Actively involve parents or legal guardian in the development and implementation of further interventions.