• Elementary Counselor Web Resources

Elementary School Counselor Role - click here for useful links

School counselors are professional educators with a mental health perspective who understand and respond to the challenges presented by today’s diverse student population. As school counselors, our primary goals are to enhance student achievement, and we do this in a variety of ways inside and outside of the classroom.  School counseling services and our roles are determined by the educational, career, and personal/social developmental needs of our students.

The following services may be provided to all students:

• short term individual counseling
• group counseling
• crisis counseling/intervention
• new student transition
• community agency referral
• classroom instruction
• character education
• career education
• staff consultation
• parent conferences
• parent education/resource
• bullying prevention
• transition to and from school
• safety development
• conflict mediation and education
• alcohol/other drug education/prevention/concerned persons
• RTI
• PBIS

School Counseling Web Resources

Curriculum and Counseling

• Monthly Themes for Enhancing Student and Learning Supports at School: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/schoolsupport.htm
• School Counseling Resources at WisconsinSCENE: http://schoolcounselor.groupsite.com/group/wisconsin
• Books/Stories Online:  http://storylineonline.net/
• School counselor ideas and printables: http://pinterest.com/search/?q=school+counselor
• Smart Board Social Skills:  http://exchange.smarttech.com/#tab=0
• CESA 8 School Counselor Standards and Benchmarks- Lessons : http://cesa8counselorstandard.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=130
• Guidance Curriculum West Virginia Department of Education: http://wvde.state.wv.us/counselors/guidance-curriculum.html
• DPI list of Samsha Approved Research Base Curriculum : http://www.dpi.wi.gov/sspw/pdf/tobaccoprograms.pdf
• Interactive Books Online:  http://wedolisten.org/
• Social Skills, Pragmatics and social stories:  http://speakingofspeech.com/
• Promoting the Social Emotional Development and School Readiness of Young Children Birth to Age 5 : http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/

• PBIS Cool Tools Listed by Behaviors:  http://pbisworld.com/
• Wisconsin PBIS Network: http://www.wisconsinpbisnetwork.org/
• PBIS Ideas and Printables: http://pinterest.com/search/?q=pbis

RTI

• Intervention Central: http://interventioncentral.org/
• Trauma-Sensitive Schools: http://dpi.wi.gov/sspw/mhtrauma.html

• Seclusion and Restraint Law: http://dpi.wi.gov/sped/sbseclusion.html
• Ethical Standards: http://www.schoolcounselor.org/files/EthicalStandards2010.pdf