What Does An Elementary School Counselor Do?
The Westfield Elementary School Counseling program is designed to support, advocate and nurture all learners. School Counselors help children, parents, and teachers promote student achievement through a comprehensive school-counseling program. By using a developmental approach, school counselors are able to address academic, emotional and personal needs. School counselors will communicate and collaborate with students, educators, parents, guardians, and community members to provide a supportive culture, and the necessary skills to produce self-directed leaders and successful citizens of our global society.
An Elementary School Counselor works with students in the following ways:
Character Education Lessons
Our Character Education curriculum consists of some of the following topics: respect, cooperation, responsibility, consequences, coping strategies, teamwork, active listening, conflict resolution, caring communication, individual strengths, goal setting, making good decisions, positive attitude, peer pressure, bullying, respecting differences, and career education. Aforementioned topics may be modified, and additional topics may be added, in order to meet the needs of any individual classroom environment. The goal is to help our students become caring, productive leaders in our society.
Small Group Counseling
Throughout the year, we conduct several small group-counseling sessions such as "Friendship group", "SEL", "Newcomers."
One on One Counseling
We also meet with students one on one to help with any social, academic or emotional problems they may be having.