Deck 13: School Counselors As Coordinators, Collaborators, and Managers of Resources

Question 1

Which of the following is the common denominator of coordination, collaboration, and managing resources in a school counseling program?

A)prioritizing, organizing, and delivering the components of the program
B)the power they have to extend the influence of the school counseling program to enhance the personal and academic success of each student in their charge.
C)partnering and teaming with other educators
D)extending the program by bringing in human and material resources
E)delineating strategies to bring resolution to a problem

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Coordination of the school counseling program means _________________________.

A)developing career and academic plans for each student's success
B)collaborating and teaming with faculty and staff
C)working with community agencies
D)prioritizing, organizing, and delivering the components of the program
E)meeting with stakeholders to resolve an issue

Answer 2

D

Question 3

School counselors establish priorities by __________________________.

A)looking to the school counselor's job description of the school
B)first identifying the needs of the school
C)asking the PTA to find out what parents want school counselors to do
D)examining state and community reports on school counseling
E)doing whatever the administrators and teachers want

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Coordination of services means ________________ and efficiently organizing and delivering the components of your school counseling program.

Question 5

Implementing outreach efforts to get human, monetary, and technological resources from the internal community and the external community is

A)presenting classroom guidance lessons
B)leading counseling groups
C)managing resources
D)providing staff development
E)serving on committees

Question 6

When school counselors partner with students, students become an extension of a school counseling program by _______________________.

A)serving as allies for other students
B)becoming sounding boards for other peers
C)contributing talent and skills as tutors, mentors, aids, and speakers
D)being instrumental in positively influencing their peers
E)all of the above

Question 7

In managing resources, a school counselor seeks the _____________ of parents, students, teachers, administrators, community and business partners, and technology to garner support and redistribute duties.

Question 8

The components of a school counseling program include _____________________.

A)individual/group counseling
B)consultation services
C)career and academic advising
D)classroom guidance lessons
E)all of the above

Question 9

The school counselor as coordinator of school counseling services utilizes the expertise and services of others to deliver optimum _______________.

Question 10

Managing resources is extending the school counselor program beyond just the _____________________________ counselors can provide, by bringing in human and material resources such as parents, students, teachers, administrators, community members, business partners, and technology.

A)therapy
B)direct services
C)administrative assistant work
D)negotiating
E)advising

Question 11

Which of the following external community members are feeling the responsibility of helping educators deliver the daunting task of educating our citizenry?

A)agencies and businesses
B)alumni and neighborhood associations
C)civic and church organizations
D)universities, colleges and postsecondary institutions
E)all of the above

Question 12

Effective collaboration entails linkages among administrators, teachers, businesses, and community agencies characterized by _____________________________.

A)willingness to isolate credit, blame, rewards, and penalties among groups
B)commitment to the tie and energy required to develop relationships, common goals, and supportive key players who can smooth the way
C)elimination of those who don't support a school counselor's plans
D)endorsement of a spirit of competition to ensure achievement of goals
E)all of the above

Question 13

Taking collaboration to a higher level and working cooperatively with colleagues to gain numerous benefits such as an increase in professional energy, social interactions, and collective talents, describes a school climate of __________________________.

A)collegiality
B)loyalty
C)allegiance
D)collectivism
E)peer facilitation

Question 14

Working collaboratively with the administration, teachers, the community, and agency programs in overarching, interlocking commonalities strengthen the impact of the school counseling program by ___________________________.

A)the examination of blame, rewards, and penalties among groups
B)collectively focusing on common goals
C)the school counselor to act as an expert in partnerships
D)competition among the stakeholders to achieve the goals
E)all of the above

Question 15

_____________________ is the process of partnering and teaming with other educators, individuals, and groups of the internal community and external community to deliver the components of the school counseling program.

A)Direct service delivery
B)Coordination of services
C)Collaboration
D)Management of resources
E)Advocacy

Question 16

Collaboration is entering into a ________________ or liaison with other individuals, groups, or members of other institutions who share a common mission of student success.

Question 17

The benefits of collegiality include a ____________________________.

A)deeper and more professionally satisfying level of collaboration
B)more immediate pay increase
C)great increase of job satisfaction and level of personal activity
D)strengthening of work relationships that result in friendships outside the school
E)heightening of esteem among co-workers as to job performance

Question 18

CASTT is an acronym for _________________________________.

A)community members, administrators, students, teachers, and technology
B)counselors, administrators, students, teachers, and technology
C)counselors, administrators, services, time management, and tools
D)collaboration, associations, success, teachers, and task force
E)none of the above

Question 19

Technology has the potential to increase school counselor efficiency by ______________________________.

A)expediting tedious repetitive tasks
B)providing accurate, timely data from information-management-systems
C)connecting communications between counselors and the school district
D)identifying and eliminating school practices that deter equitable access
E)a, b, and d

Question 20

_________________ is an efficient and effective way of disseminating information and analyzing results.

Question 21

Effective collaboration requires a willingness to share credit, blame, rewards, and penalties.

Question 22

The school counselor as coordinator determines the ______________ of the school counseling program and identifies the mechanisms and resources necessary to carry them out.

Question 23

CASTT is an acronym for Collaboration, Administration, Service, Teaching, and Technology.

Question 24

Explain and give examples of how school counselors can CASTT a wider net to encourage and enhance the going rate of post-secondary education for all students. Salient Points to Consider
a. what is CASTT?
b. ways in which to utilize community members
c. ways in which to utilize administrators
d. ways in which to utilize students
e. ways in which to utilize teachers
f. ways in which to utilize technology

Question 25

The school counselor, in an effort to be a leader and motivator to get others involved in a school counseling program, must manage different resources and _________________.

Question 26

The four components of a comprehensive school counseling program that addressed the ASCA National Standards and the ASCA National Model include classroom guidance lessons, individual/group counseling, consultation services and ______________.

Question 27

Explain how coordination, collaboration, and management of resources are the mechanics that guide the school counseling program.Salient Points to Consider
a. the definition and benefits of coordination
b. the definition and benefits of collaboration
c. the definition and benefits of management of resources
d. CASTTing a wider net

Question 28

Coordination of the school program includes both direct service delivery and indirect service delivery through the brokering of resources.

Question 29

School counseling program goals are set in the ____________________ phase based on the needs identified in the preceding priorities phase.

Question 30

The role of the school counselor as a direct service deliverer has expanded to that of ___________________ of resources in an effort to focus on all students.