The Elementary / Middle School Counselor's Survival Guide

Get a good start in your new vocation -- Develop your professional expertise -- Become a valuable team player -- Organize your way to a great beginning -- Have a fantastic first day -- Connect with your students -- Design effective lessons -- Deliver effective instruction -- Evaluate your students' progress -- Motivate your students to succeed -- Help your students become successful learners -- Make the most of your instructional time -- Help struggling readers find success -- Manage your classroom through early intervention -- Handle behavior problems effectively -- Manage diversity in your classroom -- Troubleshoot twenty common problems.;[This book] offers beginning teachers a wide varsity of tested strategies, activities, and tools for creating a positive and dynamic learning environment while meeting the challenges of each school day. The book [also offers] ideas for helping teachers with everything from becoming effective team players and connecting with students to handling behavior problems and working within diverse classrooms.-Back cover.

An expanded edition filled with ideas, strategies, and tools for school counselors

This Survival Guide helps counselors plan and implement an effective counseling program tailored to the needs of all students. Step by step, the book walks readers through every aspect of the school counselor job, including: designing a comprehensive counseling program, communicating with students and fellow staff, facilitating groups, promoting positive school discipline, integrating a guidance curriculum, intervening in times of crisis, and taking personal and professional care of oneself.

• Discusses how to reach out to diverse student and parent populations
• Shows how to integrate the American School Counselor Association's National Model for designing, delivering, and evaluating a school's counseling program
• Reveals how new technology can improve services to students and parents
• Other titles by Wiggin: I.O.U.S.A., Demise of the Dollar, and Financial Reckoning Day

This comprehensive resource also includes a wealth of reproducible worksheets, letters, checklists, and forms designed to save time and effort for busy school counselors.

An expanded edition filled with ideas, strategies, and tools for school counselors This Survival Guide helps counselors plan and implement an effective counseling program tailored to the needs of all students. Step by step, the book walks readers through every aspect of the school counselor job, including: designing a comprehensive counseling program, communicating with students and fellow staff, facilitating groups, promoting positive school discipline, integrating a guidance curriculum, intervening in times of crisis, and taking personal and professional care of oneself. Discusses how to reach out to diverse student and parent populations Shows how to integrate the American School Counselor Association's National Model for designing, delivering, and evaluating a school's counseling program Reveals how new technology can improve services to students and parents Other titles by Wiggin: I.O.U.S.A., Demise of the Dollar, and Financial Reckoning Day This comprehensive resource also includes a wealth of reproducible worksheets, letters, checklists, and forms designed to save time and effort for busy school counselors.