Counselor Connection
Collaboration is essential for school counselors. This mini-blog is for my counselor colleagues to share ideas, lessons and inspiration
This week I have the honor of presenting at the Arizona School Counselor's Conference. For the past two years I have facilitated an Elementary School Forum since I was the sitting Elementary School Vice-President. I'm happy to be back this year to doing a presentation about the programming at my school that I'm so proud of. I'll be co-presenting with two fabulous teachers from Sunset Ridge, Jessica Felix, a 3rd grade teacher and Elizabeth Epley, a 6th grade teacher on Teaching the 7 Habits; K-8. Last summer, our principal, Carrie Prielipp came across the book The Leader In Me by St ephen Covey. Upon reading the book she was inspired to push our school to develop better leaders. She encouraged several Sunset Ridge staff members to read the book and see how we could implement some of the strategies at our school. We soon realized that our school was already well on its way to being a model Leadership School. However, we still found several great ideas to take our program to the next level. During our AzSCA presentation you'll hear about how Sunset Ridge is working on implementing this program Kindergarten through 8th grade. As the school counselor I quickly realized that many of the "habits" taught by Covey could easily fit into my curriculum. Upon looking at school-wide data, I decided to work with grades 3 and 6 to teach the 7 habits. During our AzSCA presentation, you will see examples of lesson plans and activities that we used to teach these habits to our students. All lessons and activities can easily be adapted to fit any K-8 grade. We will also show how this program has influenced attendance and office referral data for these two grade levels. Below, you will find the power points that were used for 6th grade. Each lesson is aligned to the ASCA standards and to 6th grade standards. Feel free to adjust the lessons as needed for your needs. Any worksheets, should also be attached. Several of the slides have links to various YouTube Videos - be sure to note where those are so you are able to show them to your students. We have also included standards-based lesson plans for 3rd grade. Again, we have tried to include any extra worksheet that the lesson plan mentions. Both sets of lessons can be used a grade up or down or altered for other elementary grades. Third grade lessons are based on Covey's book The 7 Habits of Happy Kids. If you have any questions about the lessons or the activities, please feel free to contact any of us. For more information about how these were taught, you may visit the 6th Grade Level Updates or 3rd Grade Level Updates within this site. Good luck! And please leave feedback for us about our AzSCA presentation or about these lesson plans! It inspires us! Mindy Willard Jessica Felix, 3rd Grade Elizabeth Epley, 6th Grade [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Please email Mindy if you are interested in your own copy of these lessons.
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