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Annual Calendar Reflection

Christina Cooper

College Name, Grand Canyon University

SCN-620: Educational Tests and Measurements

Tonya Drake

June 12, 2024


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Annual Calendar Reflection (School Needs)

According to The South Carolina Department of Education (2018), School counseling

programs are essential for students to achieve optimal personal growth, acquire positive social

skills and values, set appropriate career goals, and realize full academic potential to become

productive, contributing members of the world community. For school counselors to do their job

they need to find the needs of a school to get better. There are many different ways to find these

needs such as by conducting a needs assessment. There can be many different assessments such

as surveys, questionnaires, or even interviews. At my school, we like to use Google Surveys.

These Google surveys can be sent to everyone’s email who is a part of the school and allow them

to answer on their own time and the results will be sent to the counselor to look over and gain

information. Surveys can also be sent to members outside of the school if need be. These surveys

can be done in many different ways, such as polls, fill-in-the-blank, and multiple choice.

Depending on what is being asked will depend on the type of survey.

Annual Mandated Curriculum Topics

A mandated topic from our district is Bullying. We have a week that is called “See

Something Say Something,” and throughout this week students get to dress up against bullying.

They also have short videos to watch every day that talk about bullying and what to do if it

happens to them or someone else. There are many different activities that students join in

throughout the district. Another activity our school does is get each student to sign a pledge

stating that they will follow the “Say Something See Something” pledge and then they receive a

green bracelet that has “Say Something See Something” written on it. The pros of this are to help

students better understand what bullying is and how to report it if they see it at school. Some

students have no clue who to talk to or even what to say but these videos help them understand
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better. One con that I have found is that some students make light of the video and start talking

about bullying other students. I find this a great time to pull the student to the side and ask what’s

wrong and if they need to talk about something.

Justification for the selected surveys/assessments & direct and indirect student services

To justify the annual calendar template that was constructed, school counselors could

also use different assessments. A Google survey would be the best assessment to send to teachers

and students at school to simply state what they feel the school could do better to address the

needs of the school. A lot of schools are currently seeing a trend in needing mental health

services within the school system. After Covid-19 many students have higher anxiety and have

trouble with different situations and need a mental health counselor to help. Supporting these

students and teachers during this difficult time can help them so much! According to The

American School Counselor Association (ASCA) (2023), School counselors focus their skills,

time, and energy on direct and indirect services to all students as well as program planning and

school support. Some different services that our school has are small group meetings depending

on what the student needs. We also do MTSS meetings where we discuss students who are

struggling. We also have lessons that the school counselor conducts monthly in the library about

different things. Overall school counselors are there to make sure that the school is running

smoothly and that everyone can learn in and out of the classroom. They help anyone who needs

help throughout the school including teachers, staff, and students.


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References

“The School Counselor and School Counseling Programs - American School Counselor

Association (ASCA).” Www.schoolcounselor.org, 2023,

www.schoolcounselor.org/Standards-Positions/Position-Statements/ASCA-Position-

Statements/The-School-Counselor-and-School-Counseling-Program.

The South Carolina Department of Education. � . . . . . . . . South Carolina School Counseling

and Career Guidance Leadership/Advocacy/Collaboration/Systemic Change the South

Carolina Comprehensive School Counseling & Career Guidance Model a GUIDE for

SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL COUNSELING and CAREER GUIDANCE PERSONNEL

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT of EDUCATION. 2018.

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