| WHAT IS A SCHOOL COUNSELOR? |  |  | | Ms. Amy Robinson |
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 AnxietyEvery
child 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 to
school.
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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
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 District Couseling Website
district couseling web site
| |  | | 10 Ways to show your child you care... | 1. Say goodbye to them when they leave the house with a hug and tell them you love them
2. Greet them when they come in the door from being gone, with a hug and say hello
3.Ask them about their day, who did they sit by at lunch, play with at recess
4. Really listen to them when they speak, maintain eye contact
5. Discuss their dreams and nightmares
6. Keep the promises you make
7. Wake them up in the morning by singing a song, any song, even a made up one
8. Establish routines to make their life predictable
9. Praise them when they try really hard to do something or do something really well
10. Admit when you make mistakes
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