Praxis 5422 School Counselor Study Guide Rated A+

Praxis 5422 School Counselor Study Guide Rated A+ Systemic Change School counselors build an environment to promote systemic change when they use the results of program assessments to improve a process in their schools. Systemic change comes from assessing for program improvement. Criterion-Referenced Assessment an assessment procedure in which a student's performance is compared to a particular level of mastery summative evaluation Evaluation conducted after instruction to assess students' final achievement. Formative Assessment Assessment used throughout teaching of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and guide teaching ABC Model Describes three major components of attitudes Affective component- person's feelings about the thing Behavioral component- The influence that attitudes have on behavior Cognitive component- Beliefs/knowledge about a specific object of interests Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) a disorder characterized by chronic excessive worry accompanied by three or more of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, concentration problems, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance There is not an individual counseling action plan or results report. Mindsets and Behaviors for Student Success Action Plans verify that all components are deliberated. They address the why, when and how lessons, activities and interventions are delivered to students. Completing an action plan requires the school counselor to reflect on the most effective and efficient delivery of services and how to express the best data story for each. The three types of action plan are: core curriculum, small group responsive services and closing-the-gap. Results Report allow an honest evaluation of the delivery of core curriculum, small group responsive services and closing-the-gap action plans. They also provide the opportunity to describe how to do it better the next time. Closing-the-Gap Action Plan This plan addresses academic, attendance or behavioral discrepancies discovered through school data. It might target students with excessive absences, below expectation achievement, or multiple disciplinary infractions. Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Prohibits intentional discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin in places of public accommodation. student learning outcome (SLO focuses on the skills that students are expected to master in a course. Unlike a learning objective, it's measurable. For example, an SLO would say ''Students will be able to identify and describe assigned cell organelles with 80% accuracy.'' This example would be considered a student learning outcome because it specifically describes what a student needs to be able to do, including the level of accuracy they are expected to attain. What are the basic goals of Bowen's approach to assess family dynamics in order to prescribe recommendations to individuals on how to function best in social relationships at home, work, or elsewhere. What is Bowen's family systems theory? a scientific theory of human behavior that views the family as a living system whose relationships are primarily influenced by emotion. Each family member influences the others to some degree. Preconventional Morality level of moral reasoning occurs during the early years and up to pre-adolescence. Children in this level are prone to obey parents and other authority figures in order to obtain approval and avoid punishment conventional morality level of moral development is characterized by the adherence to societal norms as a standard of moral conduct. While level one is marked by compliance, level two is marked by conformity with social norms. Adolescents moving toward young adulthood begin to shift from a narrow individual moral perspective that is essentially self-serving