On 9/27/09, Jill wrote:
> On 9/26/09, Jamie wrote:
>> On 9/25/09, Jill wrote:
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> I posted a message yesterday and decided to try again today.
>>> If someone could answer a few questions for a graduate
>>> school assignment, I'd really really appreciate it!
>>>
>>> Some questions I have are what your daily schedule is like,
>>> what are your favorite/least favorite parts of the job, what
>>> are your main goals, main duties (and do you agree with
>>> these duties), are you involved in 504
>>> planning, age ranges/population at your school, # of
>>> children in your case load, # of counselors in your school,
>>> do you have lunch duty or any other duties like this?
>>>
>>> I haven't heard from the counselor I was supposed to
>>> interview and I'm worried that it will be too late. If
>>> anyone could take the time to answer some of these
>>> questions, I'd be so grateful! You could also e-mail me at
>>> the above address.
>>>
>>> THANK YOU!!
>>
>>
>> I'll try to answer some of your questions:
>>
>> - There is no daily schedule in school counseling, every day
>> is different and you can't really have a plan of what happens
>> when.
>> - Favorite part of the job is counseling students on post-
>> secondary planning. Least favorite part is registering new
>> students.
>> - Main duties are individual counseling, graduation tracking,
>> post-secondary planning, organizing resources for parents and
>> students, testing, crisis counseling, participating in IEP's,
>> beavior plans, etc. For the most part I agree with them,
>> except for the testing, but I wish we had more time to meet
>> with students and be proactive instead of responsive.
>> - I work at a high school, grades 9-12. The school has 2100
>> students, I have about 420 on my caseload and we have 5
>> counselors.
>> - I don't have lunch duty, but we do rotate parking lot duty
>> for a week...and we also have to monitor the halls during
>> Study Hall on Wednesdays for an hour.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>
> Jamie,
>
> Thank you so much for responding. I really appreciate it.
>
> I noticed you said that you were involved in IEP planning. Are
> you involved or do you have to create 504's as well? Also, what
> kind of testing do you do?
>
> Thank you sooooo much!!!!

Hi Jill, not sure if you still need this, but I'll answer just in
case. I don't create the IEP's, just sit in on annual reevaluation
meetins or redeterminations when the Special Ed Team is reviweing
whether or not the student still needs services, and what those
services are. For 504's we basically dothe same things.

For testing, yikes, we do it all. Any state or national
standardized test, we do. AP exams, EOCT's (end of course tests),
PSAT, ASVAB, Georgia has 5 tests that students must pass prior to
graduationg, and we do those.

Hope this helps!

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