Day 1: Professional Learnings
1. Using Virtual Characters to Combat Bullying (Dr. Carol Dahir)
- What programs to use: Voki (Recommended by Rebecca Lallier at School Counseling by Heart); Xtranormal now Nawmal; XBox; Digitalfilms
- Use of avatars is effective in making users wear "digital shoes" (digital role-play)
- Effective in increasing users enjoyment and learning is maximized
- Use scripts as prompts for role-plays - use situations that are observed in the hallways, on the bus, in the cafeteria or classroom with the goal of creating their own "avatar-based" solutions
- Key is to create/prompt the scenario and then resolve it in a pro-social way
- Kids can critique each other's solutions
- Handouts
- Bonding- friendships, emotions, relationships
- Trauma vs. Smothering - isolated in lunch room vs. being around other girls
- Relational Aggression - goes on forever for girls
- Playing rituals are different between genders: boys - play on playground; girls socialize on the playground
- Socialization differences between genders: girls socialized to be nice; boys socialized to be tough
- Emotional outcome gender differences: girls - get sad; boys get angry
- Girls - find their place in the social puzzle around 8 years and elementary girls learn that being mean boosts their social visibility
- Dichotomous - all or nothing and Imaginary audience syndrome - feel that everyone is watching everything they are doing
- Girls are preoccupied with fairness and are present oriented
- Need to talk about the college/career - to plant the seed early!
- Why girl leadership? Women/girls being portrayed by very few women writers and directors
- 90% of 4th grade girls want to go into something math related; drops to 50% by high school
- Resources: Rachel Simmons GirlTips; TedTalks
- Ideas for working with girls:
- Read an article, use a news or video clip and discuss specific issues related to girls/women (make developmentally appropriate) because girls need to see outside their box; Examples: Pantene commercial - Not Sorry; Female Newscaster Video
- Community Events - I Am Day of the Girl; Girl Rising documentary (parent child night) ** - middle/high school- promoting parental connection; WILD Lunch - Career connections -influential women in the community and come in at lunch to talk about what they do and why they do it - choose folks in the same field with varying levels of degrees - example - dentistry: dental hygienist, dentist, bachelors/associates/advanced
- Book: Mistake I made at Work by Jessica Bacal - recommended as a great read for us!!
- "We are raising the next generation of workers who won't be able to work a day without rewards." Julia saw this quote recently somewhere.
- Parental Support - parent coffee club (showed photo - owl with coffee beans/grounds to promote the coffee club) -ask a local coffee shop donate once a month to school (never had issue with them donating) - have various talks scheduled for each morning
- Book club - make a handout that has talking points - remember some parents can't afford the book or read the book - encourage to come for the discussion
- Book: Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg Ask: "What would you do if you weren't afraid?"
- Handouts
- Strength based
- Positive and optimistic (Yes, but... vs. Yes, and...)
- Be curious
- Client is an expert and in charge
- Empowering
- It's the thinking and not techniques
- Problem is external
- Stress the importance of small changes
- The language of solution talk: 1 single meeting or groups that happen frequently - planned or short-term
- Parent-teacher conferences
- Family sessions/meetings
- Conflict Resolution
- Miracle Questions - Time Machine - If you got out of a time machine...
- Exception Questions - Tell us about the time when something did not occur? What would you do differently then?
- Coping questions - What keeps you going?
- Scaling questions - Scaling kit
- Scaling Ideas:
- Use pictures
- Lego scale - towers
- Superhero scale
- Nesting dolls
- Pokemon evolution
- Uphill and downhill
- Rainbow
- Goal-setting questions - 1. pre-test 2. use the pre-test to determine two or three long-term goals based on the pre-test 3. Identify mini-goals weekly and scaling 4. post-test -- see Powerpoint on goal setting
- Goal-Setting Sheet in Power point
- Weekly meeting notes- write goal in their assignment book for students, parents, and teachers to view frequently
- Narrative Approach - ** ask group members to draw their answers
- Helpful Questions on PowerPoint
- Vision Board
- Power cards - originally used with children on the spectrum -- one side superhero; other side you put what they will be doing when... "I will be ______" Example, I will be writing; I will be sitting in my chair
- Email for explanation of activities: tvcottle@fcps.edu
- Handouts
4. From Crayons to College and Careers (Holly Todd and Lynette Schless)
- ** Article in July/August ASCA School Counselor magazine
- Language to use: WHEN you go to college rather than IF you go to college
- College means all types of post-secondary education/training
- Articulation - hearing the same message across all grade levels:
- When we grow up pictures - Students holding a sign of what they want to be when they grow up (4th grade) - post in the library in frames (keep) - be careful with the student spelling
- Parents/Grandparents invited in to talk about their careers (K)
- Friday Volunteer Program - parents come in to discuss their career while teachers did progress monitoring - found teachers chose to listen to presentations instead of progress monitoring
- Career Dress-Up Day - dress up in the apparel of what career they want to do
- Standies - poster boards to put head in - of career folks; took pictures, writing activities - Utah higher education assistance authority
- Class Crayon - need to send the crayon to work - need to decorate the crayon to go to that career
- Hard Skills -- skills needed to perform a certain career
- Soft Skills - ex. honesty, integrity, caring, responsibility - VERY IMPORTANT
- 35 attributes - 35 weeks in school year that have at least 3 days
- School-wide implementation
- Daily announcements - morning announcements - list by day/date - brief - used quotes but principal and teacher made the abstract more concrete
- Classroom Posters - Each teacher gets a sign with attribute name and quote - each teacher to hang and change each week; bulletin boards; alphabet word wall
- Each teacher would nominate a student each week of those student who demonstrated the weekly attribute and put name on slip to enter a random drawing for a college savings plan (community banks partnered with them to match $10 - so each winner started with $20 - a check was written to student and bank so they had to go in and cash - bank's job to sell opening an account) and got a special pencil that said ABC's of crayons to college and career ready; Student name went on poster in the classroom beside each attribute
- Positive contact opportunity
- Bank partnerships
- Posted recognition on the bulletin board (up all year long)
- School Counselor Lesson- 1-2 times per month in each classroom on an attribute - based on what your school needs - 30 minute lesson
- Setting goals/plan (Oh the Places You Will Go)
- Integrity - The Empty Pot
- J - Jobs - Snowmen at Work - had to rip their paper into small circles to build a snowman - and had to decorate the snowman into the career
- S - Study Skills - test taking skills review - Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! - Smart Bingo -- very very simple test taking skills - 3rd & 4th - BINGO - Yelled "I'm Smart"
- T - Teamwork - Swimmy video on Youtube
- Y - You - The Important Book - the most important thing about YOU - what are the most important things to know about you? - Create a candy bar wrapper - name of candy bar, ingredients - 5 characteristics that describe them (positive to make us want to buy it), decorate it in a way to want to buy - bring it to quality control (school counselor) and then got to wrap it around a full-sized candy bar - had to take it home and tell someone about it before they ate it.
- Sesame Street.org video on the last day of school - What I am... ** Very cute by Will-I-Am
- Journals - simple; sheets of paper cover with sheets inside writing about that attribute
- Parent survey - very helpful
- Handouts
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