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, A middle school counselor has a goal of promoting the Healthy coping strategies for managing stress.
physical and emotional well-being of students living
with a parent/guardian who experiences episodes of
depression. The counselor could most effectively
achieve this goal by enhancing the students' knowledge
of:
Mr. Chatel is a school counselor who has been hired Each student's needs and attributes are individual and personal and cannot be
recently by an elementary school with a culturally and inferred from their affiliation with a specific cultural group.
ethnically diverse student population. He wants to
prepare himself to work effectively with all students at
the school. Mr. Chatel will most likely be effective with
students from diverse backgrounds if he recognizes
that:
An elementary school counselor has planned a It is responsive to a variety of student learning styles and preferences.
guidance lesson for a class of fifth-grade students. First,
students will be given a brief story to read about a child
who is dealing with a problem likely to be common in
the lives of students their age. Each student will jot
down his or her thoughts about the child's problematic
situation and steps the child took to resolve it. Then the
students will form small groups to discuss their ideas
about the story. After the small-group activity, the
counselor will lead a whole-class discussion about the
story and what it can teach the students. Finally, the
students will work individually or in pairs to create a
drawing, poster, or other product that reflects
something they learned from the lesson. Which of the
following statements describes the greatest strength of
the counselor's lesson?
A school counselor notices that an elementary student Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
shows various signs of parental neglect. For example,
the student often arrives late, is frequently absent from
school, has poor hygiene, and gets very low grades.
During a meeting with school officials, the counselor
attempts to explain why students who are neglected
often lack motivation and fail to show progress in their
academic courses. To better explain this phenomenon,
it would be most helpful for the counselor to have
knowledge of:
A sixth-grade teacher has been unsuccessful in Determine if class assignments align with the achievement levels of the
managing the behavior of several disruptive students in students.
her mathematics class. She asks the school counselor to
observe the class and provide feedback. During the
observation, the counselor notices that the students in
question finish their assignments quickly and submit
work that is below the expected standard of quality.
The counselor can most effectively help the sixth-grade
teacher resolve this situation by recommending that the
teacher first: