Describe components of the comprehensive school counseling program that will address the goal of increasing the number of students involved in postsecondary educational and training opportunities.

Honoring diversity and Transitions Program Assignment Instructions
Overview
School counselors have an ethical responsibility to meet diverse student needs and should be knowledgeable of multicultural issues to ensure students and families have access to culturally appropriate interventions including transition programs. Teaching students, staff, and families to celebrate and embrace the diverse needs of others helps foster a more supportive and inclusive community in improving access to postsecondary opportunities for all students. This is an opportunity for you to apply knowledge learned, so be creative!

Instructions

For this assignment, you will create a presentation in PowerPoint with speaker notes (on each slide).

You are school counselor at high school in a large city with very diverse student population (race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, culture, religion/beliefs, etc.); 72 % of students are economically disadvantaged. In this presentation, you will be giving school staff and parents information on a transition plan you have created for your high school students to address recent data that only 30% of students in your school seek postsecondary opportunities (apprentriceships, job training, college admissions, military). You will include information on their role in this program as well.

In this presentation (addressed to your audience of school staff and parents) you will demonstrate the ability to design, implement, manage, and evaluate a transition program that addresses the goal of increasing the number of students engaged in formal postsecondary participation (including college, trade schools, job training, apprenticeships, formal school-to-work programs, etc). You will describe in the presentation how you have addressed the ASCA National Model components (ASCA, 2019), the ASCA Student Standards (ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors for Student Success: K-12 College- and Career Readiness for Every Student; ASCA, 2019) within your transition planning program. This presentation will also address the following:

• Describe what might diversity look like in a high school classroom (including spiritual/religion diversity),

• Describe characterisitcs and needs of diverse students,

• Give 3 practical tips classroom teachers can use to promote an inclusive environment and encourage diversity in the classroom,

• Describe Social Emotional Learning (SEL) factors for teachers to keep in mind in working with diverse students,

• Describe components of the comprehensive school counseling program that will address the goal of increasing the number of students involved in postsecondary educational and training opportunities; include specific details for each…
o Specific goal(s) of transition program (SMART goal),
o Describe pre-assessment (pretest) data you will collect to use for outcome measure (needs assessment, standardized test scores, matriculation numbers, etc.)
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Describe two components of a comprehensive school counseling program you will use in your program with some details of what will be including:
▪ Classroom guidance (delivered by school counselor and teachers including specific topics)
▪ Small group counseling (delivered by school counselor)
▪ Individual counseling or individual planning (delivered by school counselor)
▪ School-wide programs (all school staff)
▪ Consultation with teachers and school staff (initiated by school counselor)
o Describe role of teachers in the transition program
o Describe parent involvement (communication and participation/role)
o Involvement of community leaders and agencies (intiated by school counselor)
• Posttest (using the same measure you used in pretest) and other outcome data points you might use to measure program effectiveness.

Your presentation must include information from the following components:
• The Vernon & Schimmel (2019) textbook, the Kimbel & Schellenberg article on “meeting holistic needs,” information from CASEL’s SEL Framework, other course readings, and a minimum of 2 additional peer-reviewed articles must be used in order to develop the presentation (5 total);
• Information must clearly align with the ASCA National Model (ASCA, 2019) and include description of specific ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors (ASCA, 2019), or student competencies, your program will include;
• Detailed speaker notes must be included on each slide of the presentation in the notes section (seek assistance from Liberty University’s technology department or use an online tutorial if you do not know how to add speaker notes to PowerPoint slides);
• Citations (on slides and in speaker notes) and a references slide in current APA format must be included (make sure to use more that one slide if print is too small for one); and
• Informative and visually appealing content must be included.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

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