WHAT IS A SCHOOL COUNSELOR?

 

The counselor helps students deal with various issues affecting their lives and academic progress.  Counselors provide classroom lessons on topics such as  feelings identification, community building, anti-bullying, conflict management, friendship and career and college exploration.  The counselor consults with parents, teachers and outside agencies to help the student and family.

The counselor offers small group and individual counseling. Some of the topics may focus on making good decisions, getting along with peers and school staff, study skills, self control, handling frustration and coping with anxiety.  Support groups focus on family changes, incarceration, or the illness or death of a loved one.

The counselor provides responsive services, responding to students' immediate needs through one-on-one counseling or peer mediation.

The counselor is available to help your child have a productive and successful year at Maxfield Elementary.  The counselor, Ms. Robinson works part-time at Maxfield and is available on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.  She can be reached at 651-293-8680 or email amy.robinson@spps.org

School Anxiety
Everychild

Bulletin board displaying a Kindergarten self esteem lesson

has days when he or she does not want to go to school. Children suffering from school anxiety, however, feel that they can't go toschool.

What causes school anxiety treated? It is important that parents and teachers work together to identify what is prompting the anxiety. Usually helping the child feel more secure, along with behavior management techniques to teach the child how to handle difficult situations is helpful.

What should you tell you tell the child?
1. All children must go to school by law. Staying home is not an options.
2. Their family, teachers, and counselors will work withe them to address any of the reasons why they feel they can not attend school. But the child has to work on it as well.
3. Their families love them and things will get better.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

BARACK OBAMA, speech, Feb. 5, 2008