Description
Pre Practicum: 15 hours of directed field-based training required for ESE licensure. This course explores history, philosophy and trends in school counseling. Topics include professional roles and practices, student counseling, multicultural issues, stereotyping, impact of socioeconomic status, gender and sexual identity, group work, assessment issues, behavioral observation, and a variety of traditional and developmental/ preventive classroom guidance approaches. The course is presented in a manner which includes individual and group counseling, and consultative perspectives. There is a strong emphasis on developing skills which allow interns to learn differentiated strategies to confront the achievement gap. Students learn to develop a professional identity as a person in the role as change agent, and to help students deal with crisis, emergencies, and disasters through intervening with important figures and organizations in their lives. A significant part of the course will deal wit