B L EN N E R HA S S E T T M ID DL E S C H O O L // S CH O O L CO U N S EL I N G P R O G R A M

S CHO OL COUN SEL IN G P R O G RA M ACTI VI TI E S

Direct and Indirect students services should account for 80 percent of more of the
Professional School Counselors time spent (ASCA, 2012). Below are sample
appropriate direct and indirect student services and inappropriate time usage
activities for the Professional School Counselor from the ASCA National Model:

Appropriate Activities for School Counselors:

- Individual student planning
- Interpreting cognitive, aptitude, and achievement tests
- Provide counseling to students for: tardiness/absence/truancy, disciplinary issues,
appropriate school dress
- Collaborating with teachers to present core curriculum lessons
- Analyzing GPA in relationship to achievement
- Interpreting student records
- Providing classroom management suggestions
- Ensuring student records are maintained as per state and federal regulation
- Help the administration identify and resolve student issues, needs, and problems
- Provide individual small-group counseling services to students
- Advocating for students at individual education plan meetings, student study
teams, and school attendance review boards
- Analyzing disaggregated data

Inappropriate Activities for School Counselors:

- Coordinating paperwork and data entry of all new students
- Coordinating testing programs
- Signing excuses for tardy/absent students
- Performing disciplinary actions or assigning disciplinary consequences
- Sending students home for inappropriate dress
- Serving as a substitute teacher
- Computing GPAs
- Maintaing student records
- Supervising classrooms or common areas
- Keeping clerical records
- Assisting with duties in the administration office
- Providing long-term therapy in schools to address psychological disorders
- Coordinating schoolwide individual education plans, study teams, and school
attendance review boards
- Serving as a data entry clerk

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