Education 425-4
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Counselling for the Classroom Teacher
Fall Semester, 1984
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Instructor: Patricia Wilensky
Phone: 321-6589
Mondays, 5:30 - 9:20
Location: Downtown
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is intended for senior students or practising teachers who which
to explore the area of school counselling and develop some counselling skills
that can be used within a classroom setting. A combination of lectures,
discussion, practice exercises and films will be used to introduce counselling
systems, communication skills and important issues of school and personal
counselling.
OUTLINE OF TOPICS
Topics will include:
Counselling theories
Classroom climate
Developing your own counselling theory
Classroom teaching as counselling
Role of the school counsellor
Understanding psychological reports
Teacher wellness and burn-out prevention
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1.
Minor
paper - reaction to issues raised in course
30%
2.
Group
presentation
30%
3.
Final
examination - take-home short essays
40%
TEXTBOOKS
Hendricks, Gay The centered teacher. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall,
1981.
Weinhold, B.K. and Elliot, L.C. Transpersonal communication. Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.., Prentice-Hall, 1979.
Belkin, G.S. Practical counselling in the schools. (2nd edition) Dubuque:
Wm. C. Brown, 1981.