Goals
I want to become a more versatile school counselor. Having been at a high school for all of my internship/practicum experiences has equipped me to be a decent high school counselor. I think my experiences thus far have allowed me to develop my relational skills well and given me the ability to connect with high schools efficiently. What I lack is the ability to connect with more elementary school students. I desire to be able to connect well with my students, but also not to rely solely on my natural abilities. A goal of mine is to be prepared. I feel as though that I have the tendency to simply “wing it”. I can be off the cuff and do well. However, I find myself scrambling in some scenarios and find it difficult to catch my footing. I want to be prepared for lesson plans. I want to be able to execute them with efficiency and good class room management. I think this is a weakness of mine as of the moment. I think I need to be able to articulate and simplify my thoughts. I also want to be useful to the teachers. I do not know what that looks like yet. At GOAL we had four teachers on staff. I had complete freedom from administration to pull students whenever and we did just that. Now at the elementary level I have to be specific, concise, and cognizant of what the teachers need to get done. This is going to be a rather hard challenge for me.
I want to grow spiritually this semester too. I have found myself being apathetic in my faith as I pursue the counseling profession. I have become much more progressive than I ever thought I would be, and I am finding it difficult to balance my faith in this new ideaological process I am in. I may have simply discovered that a lot of my faith practices were based on what others expected of me and less on what I wanted. I am hoping to rekindle or rediscover that this semester. I wish to grow in this area and I hope that it makes it into my abilities as a counselor to live out this faith for all my students.
How I will Accomplish
For my goal on working on the relationships with the students I will simply have devote intentional and present time to them. The more time I get to practice relationship with these students the more I will become equipped building my relational skills on this level. For being prepared I need to be in the moment. I find myself planning a lot for the future and this over takes what is happening in the here and now. I am so focused on what I need to accomplish that I find myself accomplishing little and not being as prepared as I would have wished to be. I think by getting off social media as much I can devote the time it would take to be truly prepared and I can accomplish this goal.
Learning how to execute a lesson plan with good classroom management is going to take more than a semester. I do not get much experience leading from the head of a classroom, but I will observe. I have found that I learn best when I can watch someone else do it. Not just anyone, but when observing a skilled teacher, I can begin to adapt that to my own style and maybe one day produce a similar outcome. I now rapport and relationships with the students are a huge factor, but the methods and practice of the teachers is what I aspire to learn for my efficiency as a school counselor.
Working with teachers is going to be a bit easier than learning their teaching styles I believe. I think I will follow Mrs. Murray’s lead on how I will approach staff relationships. We are off to a good start and I already know most of the lunch ladies and a lot of the teachers. I think I just need to put a lot of time into those relationships.
In my spiritual goal I do not know how I am going to approach this. I think I will need to obviously get into my bible more. I honestly cannot remember the last time I opened my bible outside of church. I hope that I can focus on that as I face the potentially hardest semester mentally for me. This is probably going to be the hardest challenge for me this semester that I will deal with.
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