3. • They help understand the issues that may be
behind the student’s misbehavior.
• They listen to the students and help them find
solutions to those issues.
• They help students become better decision-
makers within their best interest
4.
5. • Schools with active counselors have shown a
decrease in discipline problems and
misbehavior with an increase in positive
attitude (2011).
• Counselors are able to create programs and
activities to assist the bully and the victim. As a
result, there is a reduction in victimization and
bullying which, in return, creates a safer school
environment (2011).
6.
7. • When a teacher is stuck with ideas to help
manage a child’s misbehavior, the counselor
helps to create a strategy to help the student.
• Counselors help create lesson plans that
pertain to correct behavior within the classroom
and school.
• Counselors act as mediator to help students
who do not get along together in class.
8.
9. In order for counseling to be effective in
helping students and creating a positive
school environment, the counselor and
administrators must work together to
ensure a clear understanding of school
goals (2012).
10. CORRECT AND INCORRECT COUNSELOR
ACTIVITIES
A P P R O P R I AT E I N A P P R O P R I AT E
ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES
• providing counseling to • performing disciplinary
students who have actions or assigning
disciplinary problems discipline consequences
• providing teachers with
suggestions for effective • supervising classrooms or
classroom management common areas
• providing teachers with • supervising classrooms or
suggestions for effective common areas
classroom management
American School Counselor Association, 2012
11. REFERENCES
American School Counselor Association. (2012). American School
Counselor Association. Retrieved from American School Counselor
Association Web site:
http://www.schoolcounselor.org/files/appropriate.pdf
Brodie, I. (2012, June 12). U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from
U.S. Department of Education Web site:
http://www.ed.gov/blog/2012/06/the-top-10-ways-school-counselors-can-
support-teachers/
