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!

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