Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:
- Understand models of school counseling programs
- Understand models of P-12 comprehensive career development
- Understand models of school-based collaboration and consultation
- Use assessments specific to P-12 education
- Understand their roles as leaders, advocates, and systems change agents in P-12 schools
- Understand their roles and responsibilities in relation to the school emergency management plans, and crises, disasters, and trauma
- Advocate for school counseling roles
- Understand characteristics, risk factors, and warning signs of students at risk for mental health and behavioral disorders
- Understand legal and ethical considerations specific to school counseling
- Design and evaluate school counseling programs
- Engage in core curriculum design, lesson plan development, classroom management strategies, and differentiated instructional strategies
- Use interventions to promote academic development
- Use developmentally appropriate career counseling interventions and assessments
- Use techniques of personal/social counseling in school settings
- Use skills to critically examine the connections between social, familial, emotional, and behavior problems and academic achievement
- Use interventions to promote college and career readiness
- Use strategies to promote equity in student achievement and college access
- Use of data to advocate for programs and students