blog 5 - chapter 6 & article -leadership

Blog 5 – Chapter 6/article - Leadership

Since I had just finished my interview project, as I read the chapter I was using the schools I was recently hearing about when relating to the different delivery models. When I first read the developmental guidance and counseling model it sounded ideal but I can see how that would not work for all schools, although ideally it would be nice. As I read about the results-based program I thought back to my interview with Tiffani from King Elementary and how she described her time not being honored and the “chaos” that she characterized her school with (T. Brunner, personal communication, September 19, 2012). I thought about how if she could keep data on those 6-8 kids she meets with regularly and show results that her program is helping them academically or socially she may be able to gain more of a precedent and more respect for her program in her school.

When reading about strengths-based I again thought of my school as I did when we read the article a few weeks ago, it very much seems like this might be where my school counselor at Washington is headed. She has focused a lot of our faculty discussions on focusing on the student’s strengths and building on them.

In the article there is a lot of information that I feel we, as future counselors, can you later to defend ourselves when we face barriers in scheduling and time. In the article the authors state, “This model is a paradigm for unifying new and veteran counselors as well as counselors with their schools and community” (Schwallie-Giddis, Patter Maat, & Pak, 2003, p. 172). This quote shows even more how we can use this model to defend what it is we really need to do in our schools for the students. Our jobs may be in jeopardy as many say but we can only change that by showing them that it is more than needed, “the model provides legitimacy to the school counseling profession” (Schwallie-Giddis, Patter Maat, & Pak, 2003, p. 173).

Schwallie-Giddis, P., Patter Maat, M., & Pak, M. (2003). Initiating leadership by introducing and implementing the ASCA National Model. Professional School Counseling, 6(3), 170-174.