School counseling lessons

Excellent and effective comprehensive school counseling programs aren’t a list of specific lessons or activities or celebrations, though. Great counseling programs meet the needs of their students. This means they look different. Your students can develop socially and emotionally and academically and behaviorally as a result of your work even if you don’t check off all of the boxes created by others.

Kids of all ages love playing games! School counseling games are no different! Kids of all ages seem to enjoy a game one-on-one or even if it’s skill’s based. I like to incorporate games into my small groups, individual and classroom lessons. Over the years, I have accumulated quite a big selection and I wanted to take some time to share a few of my favorites!

Quick, fun, no-prep SEL lesson activities that are perfect for before and after breaks or any time you need an extra fun guidance lesson

Are you a School Counselor, Psychologist, or Speech Pathologist who has a “LUNCH BUNCH” or other type of Social Skills Counseling Group? Have you been using regular old “Board Games” in the hopes of making your lunch bunch fun, but found that they really aren’t helping to teach specific “Social Skills” that your students may need, such as conversational skills, initiating play, and improving manners? Sure, your students are practicing turn-taking and sportsmanship, etc.

Building relationships with your grade 4 5 6 students should be your number one priority for a productive and engaging back to school class.

Part of my 3rd grade's problem solving unit, after we tackle conflict resolution, is to identify problems inside vs. outside of our control. As many, many

30 youtube videos for elementary school counselors to use during class lessons.

Help students develop self-awareness by incorporating lessons that target social emotional learning in the classroom. Find ideas and lessons for addressing SEL along with actionable ideas for helping develop social emotional learning in upper elementary and middle school classrooms.

Sometimes your last school counseling lesson of the year comes so close to the end, that it doesn't seem helpful to teach a new social emotional skill. Or

Explore 50 school counseling resources—from tools to books—that simplify your day, support students, and make your work more effective.

two fun games to use in classroom guidance lessons or small group counseling to teach and practice self control strategies -Counselor Keri

You're receiving dozens of similar referrals from teachers and your principal wants to know your plan for small groups. Meanwhile everything you learned in grad school is not coming in handy. Sound familiar? Welcome to back to school season, new counselor! Key Components of a School Counseling Program: Character Educat

Take the awkward out of hygiene conversations with your upper elementary and middle school students with hygiene lessons, individual counseling, family engagement, and collaboration. Read the blog post for tactical ideas and tools for helping your students practice personal hygiene.

The Good Egg Activities - use these activities to help students understand what is and is not their responsibility & practice self care for managing stress!

Whether you're new to elementary school counseling, or just looking to refresh your program content, this School Counselor Starter Bundle is for you! My bundle comes with everything from decor and curriculum mapping to games and brochures!

Keep your school counseling and social emotional learning lessons focused with these monthly themes. The 12 themes include topics like self-regulation, bullying prevention, self esteem and more. In this post, I share why these monthly topics are helpful and how you can implement them at your school.

Kindness demonstration to give students a visual representation of how kind acts create a ripple effect in the school community!

Are you curious about using centers in your school counseling program? Check out this breakdown that'll show you exactly how to set up your centers and download a FREE guidebook with over 100 school counseling centers!

Every school counseling office needs these 5 essential items. From the office walls to your desktop, what you put in your school counseling office sets the tone for your relationship with your students.

Come see how I set my schooling counseling office to best help my students!