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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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EDUCATION 425-4 ?
COUNSELLING FOR THE CLASSROOM TEACHER
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LOCATION: ABBOTSFORD
Fall Semester, 1990
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Instructor: F. Groenewold
Every Other Saturday
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Phone: ?
589-3809
(Sept. 8- Dec. 8)
9:00-17:00
Location: W.A. Fraser Elementary School (Room TBA)
Abbotsford
PLEASE SEE SYLVIA FORAN FOR REGISTRATION DETAILS (291-3787)
PREREQUISITE:
60 hours of credit. Educ. 220 or Psyc. 100 and 102, or equivalent, or permission of
instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is intended for senior students or practicing teachers who wish to explore
the contributions counselling skills provide. The course is designed to develop some
counselling skills that can be applied within the classroom setting. A combination of
lectures, discussions, practice exercises and seminars will be used to explore such
topics as: the role of the counsellor in the school, different models of counselling,
effective helping skills, the use of group discussion to promote affective development,
and the use of assessment techniques in the classroom.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
1.
Change project and paper Q%. (Identification of a desirable change in one's
own life and a diary of application of some of the counselling
skills
learned in
class to this issue).
2.
Research task and class presentation %. Research a counselling theory
and include how this theory might be applied to a classroom situation.
3.
A report on how you have handled or might handle a specific issue in the
classroom. (Include theoretical orientation and skills/techniques you have
employed or would employ.) Q%
4.
Class participation LQ%.
TEXTS (Required)
Thompson, C. L., & Rudolph, L. B. (1983). Counselling children. Monterey:
Brooks/Cole.
Allan, A. B., & Nairne, J. (1984). Class discussions for teachers and counsellors
in elementar
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school. Toronto: U. of Toronto.
(Recommended)
Barber, J., & Allan, J. (1986). Managing common classroom problems. Toronto:
U. of Toronto.
Little, N. & Allan, J. A. B. (1988). Student-led Teacher Parent Conferences.
Toronto: Lugus Productions.