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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is created for candidates to assist in recognizing and understanding the personal and cultural dynamics that exist in schools today. This course will address the development of a "new counselor" who will form a partnership with teachers, parents and administrators that will introduce and explore strategies and techniques to address the challenges of school populations with diverse personal, cultural, cognitive, emotional and gender differences. This partnership will promote a wholesome school community of shared understanding and common educational goals.
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3.00 Credits
The new DSM -5 classification system of psychopathology will be studied with emphasis on symptomatology, etiology, and implications for treatment modalities. Special emphasis will be given to the new research based system of diagnosis as it impacts students and educational systems. Various treatment interventions, including the adjunctive use of medications, are presented.
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3.00 Credits
Candidates investigate group dynamics and processes related to counseling theory by participating in group counseling demonstrations. This course is designed for candidates to gain group counseling skills, and self-awareness about one's own qualities, needs, motivations, and values that can either facilitate or interfere with one's effectiveness as a group participant and group leader. Group counseling will be clearly differentiated from group guidance. Potential uses of group counseling in schools and methods of organizing group counseling sessions are addressed. Candidates are expected to arrange a visit to a school or agency to observe an actual group session at the level for which they are seeking certification or the age group with which they will be involved[LSL(1]. *Note: All clearances (criminal background check, TB and child protective registry) must completed and on file prior to registering for the course.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to enable candidates to understand, apply, and formulate programs as they apply to postsecondary planning and career readiness. Candidates will develop an understanding of the role of the school counselor, especially as this relates to developing a college-going and career readiness culture for all students, particularly students in poverty or facing other barriers to postsecondary planning. This course includes a focus on engaging students in early career awareness, planning, and making informed postsecondary choices crossing the spectrum of K-12 and using the ASCA National Model as a framework. Candidates will learn about the usefulness of data to guide academic planning, and the steps involved for transitioning students from elementary school to middle school to high school, and then to postsecondary training and college. This course also includes topics that relate to postsecondary planning, including NCAA eligibility criteria, financial literacy, financial aid, career selection, NOSCA 8 Components of College & Career Readiness, ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors Standards, completing FAFSA's, and the college admissions process. http://nosca.collegeboard.org/eight-components
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6.00 Credits
Individual Counseling Skills and Strategies is a 6 credit semester course that equips a novice school counselor's tool belt with tools and techniques to counsel individual students. The course provides novice counselors with opportunities to learn and apply theory, strategies, and techniques to assist students with social/emotional development, academic development, career development, and/or crisis intervention. Candidates will apply ethical and legal standards to individual counseling sessions and to real life practical applications. Candidates will learn and apply intervention strategies to meet the needs of students that reflect current issues in our schools today. This course will also provide opportunities to learn and apply a variety of data collection methods and student monitoring that may lead to the referral process. During this course, candidates will learn and practice basic counseling/interpersonal skills. *Note: All clearances (criminal background check, TB and child protective registry) must be completed and on file prior to registering for the course.
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3.00 Credits
The family structure is explored as candidates learn how to meet the needs of children at school through family counseling. Knowledge of family dynamics, social and cultural issues, and parenting education are explored as the class considers issues of sexuality, child abuse, substance abuse, sex-equity, and the impact of special needs children on the family structure. Socioeconomic, ethnic background and race are addressed in terms of their influence on children in families. Candidates will research and report on community and agency resources and referral services available for children and their families. *Note: All clearances (criminal background check, TB and child protective registry) must be completed and on file prior to registering for the course.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the counselor as consultant in matters concerning child behavior, test interpretation, grades, and a child's ability to function socially, academically, and physically. Strategies for consulting with teachers, administrators, and parents are explored in order to help the child develop skills to be successful in the school setting. Candidates examine distinctions between counseling and consulting and the need to increase collaborative consultations in schools, families, and the community.
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews special education law, including relevant statutes, cases, and regulations. Candidates will receive advanced training in the development, monitoring, and implementation of IEPs and 504 Plans as related to school counseling. The course addresses professional issues related to the school counselor's role in the evaluation, referral, monitoring, and consultation of students with special needs. In addition, this course will help to develop awareness of one's own values, attitudes, and beliefs as they relate to school counseling with students with special needs and their families.
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3.00 Credits
This non-certification practicum course will give counselor candidates an opportunity to build skill development and to demonstrate competence as a student services practitioner while participating in a clinical experience outside of the K-12 school setting. Completion of this practicum does not lead to State of Delaware certification. Candidates who choose this course option are not eligible for school counseling certification in the State of Delaware. This may impact the certification eligibility for all states. It is the responsibility of the candidate to keep current with certification requirements of states other than Delaware. Two hundred (200) internship hours must be completed to fulfill practicum requirement for the non-certification option. Clinical course work in the Master of Education addresses the needs of diverse student populations facing rapid social, economic, and technical changes. Practical application in the counseling field is balanced by detailed consideration of philosophy, ethics, and theories necessary for a helping professional. In addition to the completion of an intervention project, it is expected that the candidate will perform individual counseling, group counseling and a professional presentation.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to prepare future school counselors to analyze and understand the scope and purposes of testing programs and the process of test administration. Candidates will explore commonly used assessment instruments that address learner aptitude, achievement, interest, intelligence, content areas, and traits like self-esteem, values, and modalities to help in the decision making process. Statistics necessary to understand and interpret test and research data will be examined. Candidates will learn how to gather information through research, such as questionnaires and follow-up studies. The methods for analyzing the data and reporting the results will be described. The use of computers and other technology in scoring and interpreting tests and other research data will be explored. An individual research project is required.
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