Leadership & Advocacy Exam 2 Flashcards
The themes of the ASCA National Model are:
leadership, collaboration, advocacy & systemic change
Select the phrase that best describes collaborative leadership
distributive leadership
According to an ASCA position, the role of the school counselor related to academic testing should include:
- delivering intervention services to students on strategies to reduce stress and control test anxiety
- delivering direct services to students through the structure of the comprehensive program focused on study skills and test-taking strategies
Leadership responsibilities for school counselors include:
collaborating with others to break down institutional barriers
Having a “leadership mindset” means the school counselor:
views her or his position as critical in supporting indicators of student success
Because leadership is not an easy task, school counselors should:
avoid paralysis of action and hold firm in the leadership role
School counselors who seize opportunities to stand before the faculty, parents, students, school board and community stakeholders to deliver presentations are exercising a particularly powerful leadership role.
true
Leaders are not always popular, and with leadership comes the acceptance that the decisions made and the positions advocated for may naturally result with a number of people in disagreement, in opposition, or actively resisting.
true
To implement systemic change school counselors must:
have data and strategies to support and implement the change
An advocate takes on a cause and willingly accepts the personal risks that it brings. For a school counselor, advocacy often results in taking on causes that result in:
irritation and displeasure of teachers, administrators, and their counselor colleagues.
Data is a powerful tool for school counselors and can be used to:
-monitor student progress
-identify which students are falling between the cracks
-track students early in their education
-aggregate and disaggregate student information
-advocate
Regarding school counseling, systemic change refers to organizational policies, procedures, and/or practices of either a school or school district.
true
In order for systemic change to occur, which of the following must be present in a school setting?
-shared vision and capable leadership
-research
-professional development opportunities
- organizational arrangements and strategies
Advocating for a school counseling program among other things includes:
planning a program curriculum to develop strategies that address student needs
Advocating for _________________ involves having a shared vision to guide change, leadership capabilities to drive the change, and strategies to implement change.
systemic change
In the ASCA official role of the school counselor you would find all the following:
-That the role is based on implementing a comprehensive program (the national model)
-Recommended counselor-to-student ratio
-Social-emotional, academic, career domains
-Ethical Practice
One current desire of the KS commissioner of education, the State Board, and KSDE is:
Increasing the number of school counselors
recognizing the problems with school counselors serving in a quasi-administrative role
reducing counselor time used in scheduling duties, test proctoring, etc.
Increasing time of school counselors in direct work with students.
In the Trusty and Brown journal article it was stated that:
having an advocacy disposition is necessary for advocacy skills to develop
without an advocacy disposition advocacy skill development is not possible
if a school counselor has an advocacy disposition, it is very likely that skills will develop.
According to Henderson, when administrators don’t fully grasp what professional school counselors can provide, school counselors must understand their roles and skills well enough to communicate their potential to others and advocate for it actively.
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According to Sheri Sevier:
the “program” is research based
shown to have a very positive effect on school climate and student success
some administrators may look at the school counselor as someone without a class list and papers to grade
principals may assign extra duties such as the schoolwide testing program/performing supervisory duties
Advocacy is an ethical and legal imperative for school counselors.
true
It is the position of the American School Counselor Association that those who do not hold a master’s degree in school counseling are not qualified to deliver a comprehensive school counseling program that supports academic, career, and social-emotional development of all students.
true
One factor determining whether the traditional or the transformational role of the counselor will be implemented in a school is the extent to which each individual school counselor and/or counseling team understands the importance of their unique role they can have in the school, the value of their unique preparation and skills, having a proactive advocacy disposition, and the courage to be as persistent an advocate as needed for using their skills and role to best serve the needs of all students.
true
As identified in an ASCA Position Statement, the profession identifies what is an appropriate role for a school counselor related to serving students with disabilities:
delivering school counseling curriculum lessons, individual and/or group counseling to students with special needs within the scope of the comprehensive school counseling program
In a comparison of inappropriate versus appropriate tasks/duties that could be assigned to a school counselor, which of the following is appropriate?
providing teachers with suggestions for effective classroom management
