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.

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