This technology focused EDITABLE cyber safety guidance lesson helps students learn how to protect their information and themselves online. Students will be able to define cyber safety, identify how they can be super cyber citizens, and identify what information is okay to share online. This resource includes an editable PowerPoint and Google Slides version. The editable aspect of this resource makes it easy to modify across different grade levels and settings. Take what you need! Guidance lessons are a great resource to use alongside your character education program and are an essential tool for Tier 1 RTI practices. **** Save 20% and have a lesson for every situation with my Guidance Lesson Super Bundle*** Lesson Includes: PowerPoint & Google Slides versions 2 Group Discussion Sharing Activities Digital Footprint Video Link Cyber Citizen Video Link Teacher's Guide Sides of the Room Game BENEFITING STUDENTS Students will learn about cyber safety and their digital footprint with actionable tools they can use at home and in the classroom. In addition, they will learn what it means to be a good cyber citizen. SAVING TIME This lesson is ready to use and designed to be very no-prep. WHO IS THIS DESIGNED FOR? This guidance lesson is designed for students grades 2-5 but it is editable and can be modified to work with other grades. If your students need a deep dive into cyber safety, digital citizenship, or cyberbullying check out my full 8-week technology group Tech-Savvy Tweens. Love Freebies? I do a Flash Freebie every month for all of my TpT followers. Click here to follow my store and get a notification when I post the monthly freebie. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELATED SCHOOL COUNSELING RESOURCES: ⁕ Guidance Lesson Bundle ⁕ Self-Regulation Mega Bundle ⁕ Tech Savvy Tweens ⁕ School Counseling Super Bundle --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Bright Futures School Counseling Blog and subscribe to my email list to gain access to my FREE RESOURCE LIBRARY. You will also receive a weekly email with my latest school counseling tips, research, and freebies! Also, make sure to check out my School Counseling Podcast and follow me on social media to be the first to learn about sales and new resources! School Counseling Simplified Podcast Bright Futures Counseling INSTAGRAM Bright Futures Counseling FACEBOOK
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two fun games to use in classroom guidance lessons or small group counseling to teach and practice self control strategies -Counselor Keri
This week my 5th graders learned about positive self-talk. I often worry about kiddos with all of the advertisements out there. Kids are bombarded with images of "perfect" people. Too often, children are faced with growing up feeling that they don't quite measure up. I hope that this lesson at least gets them to think about the positive qualities that they possess. I have attached the newsletter that I sent home with each student.
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I do a Classroom Guidance lesson at the beginning of the year with each of the 3 classes I'm in charge of; 8th, 9th, and 10th. During this lesson I go over what my main responsibilities are as a School Counselor; scheduling, testing, and counseling. When I talk about counseling with my students I always go into what are the three things that I have to report. I find it is a good way to open the door to that conversation, it also allows me to remind students of that conversation if and/or when they come down to talk to me. "Remember when I was in your classroom at the beginning of the year and I told you there were three things that I have to report?" Then I go into my conversation about our two types of diplomas, credits, verified credits, yadda yadda. It's amazing how many times you can over something and students still forget. I also give each student an "information sheet" to fill out and give back to me. My goal is to meet with each student individually to talk about what they want to take class wise, career wise, college wise, etc. During that time I find it will be helpful for me to have their information sheets to help me guide them. It also has some information to allow me to pick out students who might be in need of a little more attention counseling wise. Below is the information sheet. Before I finish my lesson, I give each student a checklist. I created these checklists, but I added them below to share with you :) I tell students that whether they are college bound or not, these sheets will help them graduate.
Intervention Time! In keeping with my annual tradition of being late to celebrate Halloween and Day of the Dead, I have composed a handout for your Social Work Tool Kit that presents a behavioral m…
Test anxiety coping skills are ways to handle stress and worry when taking tests. Kids and teens often use techniques like deep breathing, positive thinking, and breaking tasks into smaller steps to feel better. They also manage their time well, eat healthy, and talk to teachers or counselors for support. The Test Anxiety Coping Skills handout is a helpful resource that offers kids and teens insight into recognizing and managing test anxiety effectively. With three sections, it starts by highlighting the common signs of test anxiety, then provides tips to ease it, and ends with calming techniques. Using this handout allows kids or teens to instill these skills early on and become prepared to handle test anxiety throughout their academic journey. Pairing it with the Test Anxiety Activity worksheet enhances their understanding of personal triggers and reactions, which promotes self-awareness for sustained academic success. After finishing the handout, parents and teachers can suggest a "mindful reset" activity for kids or teens. This means taking a quick break, closing their eyes, and breathing deeply while picturing a peaceful spot. For instance, they might imagine a quiet beach or a calm forest, which helps them feel refreshed and ready to focus on schoolwork again. *This item is an instant digital download. A link to download your files will be emailed to you once payment is confirmed. Want more resources like this? Check out our full catalog of anxiety worksheets and handouts. References: Hamzah, F., Mat, K. C., Bhagat, V., & Mahyiddin, N. S. (2018). Test anxiety and its impact on first year university students and the overview of mind and body intervention to enhance coping skills in facing exams. Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology, 11(6), 2220. https://doi.org/10.5958/0974-360x.2018.00411.0 Hyseni Duraku, Z., & Hoxha, L. (2018). Self-esteem, study skills, self-concept, social support, psychological distress, and coping mechanism effects on test anxiety and academic performance. Health Psychology Open, 5(2), 205510291879996. https://doi.org/10.1177/2055102918799963 Türk, F., & Katmer, A. N. (2019). A study on the effectiveness of coping with test anxiety program based on cognitive-behavioral approach. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE), 8(4), 666. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijere.v8i4.20316
Help your students refocus on their goals and identify the strengths they have that will help them persevere and finish the school year strong with this fun perseverance activity!
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We’ll explore coping skills for anxiety that adults can use, and we have an overview of lessons that help kids understand and overcome their worries.
As counselors, sometimes we are given tasks that take us away from actually offering counseling services to children. I am lucky in that I do not have many of those tasks; however, this year I was …
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Hook students in this classroom guidance lesson with a backpack scavenger hunt! Students search in organized or messy backpacks for items to demonstrate how being a responsible student helps get us started on the right foot! Students identify their responsibilities in their homes, school, community, and to themselves and identify feelings associated with responsibility. Includes lesson plan (objectives, outline, materials list, ASCA standards alignment), example scavenger hunt list, blank scavenger hunt form to personalize, handout, handout example, and objectives assessment checklist. I use this lesson with fourth grade, but it is appropriate for grades 3-5. This lesson is included in my fourth grade classroom guidance lesson bundle and ULTIMATE classroom guidance lesson bundle! Take a look at my other individual classroom guidance lessons! Keep in touch: Counselor Keri on Pinterest Counselor Keri on Twitter Counselor Keri Blog Counselor Keri on Facebook Counselor Keri on Instagram: @counselorkeri [email protected] Terms Copyright © Counselor Keri, Keri Powers Pye. All rights reserved by author. This product is to be used by the original downloader only. Copying for more than one teacher, classroom, department, school, or school system is prohibited. This product may not be distributed or displayed digitally for public view. Failure to comply is a copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Clipart and elements found in this PDF are copyrighted and cannot be extracted and used outside of this file without permission or license. Intended for classroom and personal use ONLY. See product file for clip-art and font credits.
Creating hands-on counseling lessons can be easy and inexpensive. You can often find inspiration by looking through your junk drawers or craft boxes! String is one craft supply that many people have sitting around and it can easily be incorporated into hands-on lessons for school counseling. String is a great tactile tool that is inexpensive and comes
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I have been in a whirlwind of all things Minecraft since my son started playing. He had been begging to play for months. I was extremely hesitant about it, knowing that it wasn't intended for his age group and could be played multiplayer. I was under the impression that I could not turn off the
Many years ago, when I first started as a "Guidance Counselor" (that's what we were called back then), I had a wonderful, forward thinking, district level "Guidance" Coordinator. She saw the yearly budget battles that each Spring found state legislators discussing cuts to School Counselor, Media, Music, and Art positions and decided to do something about it. As a proactive individual, she believed in the power of data and was determined to protect the jobs of her Counselors. She had us start collecting data long before collecting data was in everyone's consciousness. Our "guidance" logs tracked how our time was spent daily and was then compiled into monthly reports to indicate the amount of time we spent performing direct and indirect services to students. This data collection helped secure School Counselor positions in every elementary school in our county at a time when many other positions were being cut. Today logging how we spend our time is more important (and easier) than ever as School Counselors around the country advocate for their positions and the ability to determine how their services are utilized in their schools. As a member of the Facebook group The Elementary School Counselor Exchange, I have read numerous posts about record keeping, accountability, paperless forms and surveys, and a general feeling of distress at the misuse of our specialized education, abilities, and skills. In many schools we are the most expensive lunchroom hostess, hall monitor, or registrar to be found. We are being asked to perform jobs that do not require a Masters degree in School Counseling, and in so doing are being prevented or severely limited in performing the student-centered services that do. When you think about it, this makes school districts and administrators very poor stewards of the human resources they have in their School Counselor. Rather than investing their School Counselor resource in services and programs that can close the achievement gap, administrators are requiring School Counselors to perform tasks that could easily be performed by any number of reasonably intelligent and responsible adults on campus. The ASCA National Model clearly outlines the role of the School Counselor and gives examples of what is and is not appropriate usage of a School Counselor's time. ASCA recommends 80% of a school counselors time be spent in direct and indirect services to students. In situations where the skills and services of the School Counselor are being misused or under utilized, it is even more compelling to provide the data that gives an accounting of how we spend our day. Because many of the things we do are not visible to the eyes of our administrators or colleagues, there is a great deal of misunderstanding and misinformation about what our job entails. There is also the confidential nature of some of our services that are not readily apparent to those who evaluate us or have the final say in our programming. Therefore, we are often called upon to do jobs that actually impair or interfere with the job of being a School Counselor. This is where Google Forms can help a School Counselor provide the process data needed in documenting how their day is spent. There is so much more that can be done with Google Forms in terms of perception data too, but for now let's start with how a School Counselor's day is spent. The Google Form here is a compilation of duties and responsibilities shared with me by my School Counselor colleagues from the Facebook group The Elementary School Counselor Exchange. The variety of unrelated duties represented in this form have been assigned to School Counselors leaving them, in many cases, without the time or support to pursue relevant school and student needs. It is my hope that School Counselors can use this form to demonstrate, with data and visual representations of graphs, how their time is being spent, both in an effort to create change and to show progress towards that change. The link for the Counselor Activity Log above allows you to make a copy so you can make any additions or deletions you want in order for this form to be more representative of your specific situation. To make your own copy, first open the above link. You should see the form in the gray version. Don't edit yet. Once opened, go to File in upper left corner. Click on File and you will see Make a copy. Click on Make a copy, then you will be asked to rename the form and click ok. Next, close my form you just used to make your copy. Now go to your Google Drive and look for the form you just renamed. Also be sure, the word shared is not beside your form. Shared means your information is not private. Next click on the name of your form and you should see the gray version ready for you to make your edits. Now you are ready to make edits and personalize my form for your usage! A WORD OF WARNING! Remember, I made the link to this form public so I could share it with you all. That means the responses (if anyone is thinking of just using the link to this form) are public too. Anyone on the web can see it. So please, do not put student information in the form above before making your own private copy. Usage of this specific link without copying to your Google drive first will result in your data being recorded in a shared file and anyone on the internet can see your confidential student information. As you begin making entries to your form, data will be recorded in a spread sheet like this one. Your Google Drive will have a document titled with the name of your form and the word responses in parentheses. If you want to sort your data, open the responses document, go to Data, click on the column you want to sort and choose sort from A-Z or sort from Z-A. When you are ready to view your data in graphs, open your form, click on Responses and then Summary of Responses to view your graphs and data. Many thanks to the School Counselors who shared their unrelated duties with me for the creation of this form. It is my hope you will find it useful as you document your daily activities and strive to gain the support you need to bring your program in line with the ASCA National Model. Do you have a method for recording how you deliver services to students? What have you found most effective for collecting process data and giving administrators an understanding of your job role? If you are interested in more information about Goolge forms, or how you can quickly and easily create your own, follow this link to my post with step by step instructions, with pictures!
A school counseling needs assessment helps quantify our impact and plan for future changes. Kate from EduKate and Inspire makes it easy with Google docs.
Virtual learning is here in full effect! Whether your school is fully online or hybrid (both online and in person) as school counselors and educators in general, we need to also transition our work online to remain in the mix - we don’t want “out of sight, out of mind” side effects. Transitioning our work online also includes school settings that are in-person as well. Look, with what’s going on with our current global health crisis affecting a multitude of school settings across the world, we d
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Over the last few weeks we've been discussing feelings in kindergarten. I took it a step further this week by bringing attention to the warning signals our bodies give us. It's important to not only understand our feelings, but also to know how to recognize what our body feels like during different feelings. I shared with students a large poster labeled with a variety of warning signs we might feel in our body when we are experiencing a strong emotion. We went through each of these and modeled some of them together to remember how it feels. Students even added some of their own warning signals they experience in their body during a strong feeling. By knowing our bodies, we can self-soothe and use self control to be appropriate in public when we are furious, saddened, disappointed, lonely, etc. I then had students evaluate how which warning signals they experience in their bodies during strong feelings. I gave them each a chart with 5 feelings and a sheet full of the warning signals we reviewed on the chart. They looked at each feeling and paired it with the warning signal their body gives off. Finally they cut it out and glued it to their paper. I walked around to aid in the process, but for the most part they were very aware of how their bodies responded to strong feelings and we found that we are each unique.
Environment matters. From the office walls to your desktop, what you put in your school counseling office sets the tone for your relationship with your students. How do you make your students feel welcome? What do you want your students to be doing and thinking when they come into your office? For me, it's all
Improve communication in the classroom by encouraging students to develop their active listening skills. Illustrated cards feature 10 actions students can take to become better listeners. Pair with the Conversation Starters bulletin board set to build speaking and listening skills and keep the conversation flowing.\n\nEach set includes 11 pieces: \n• Be an Active Listener banner (16\" diameter)\n• 10 active listening cards\n• Teaching guide
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