Course Description
Introduces trainees to the use of evidence-based practices in comprehensive school counseling programming. Evidence-based practices in school counseling emphasize the use of data-based methods to target interventions, emphasize the selection and implementation of research-based interventions, and inform the evaluation of student outcomes.
Athena Title
Evidence-based School Counsel
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. To become familiar with data vocabulary and terms related to educational reform and the accountability movements 2. To understand the evolution of evidence-based practice and how changes in the educational landscape have prompted school counselors to adopt this approach in their work with students 3. To use a data-based decision-making model to define problems, choose interventions, and evaluate outcomes 4. To learn how to disaggregate and triangulate district-level, school-level, and survey data to make better informed decisions about school-wide programming and student interventions 5. To understand how collaborative data teams function within a school, ways in which a school counselor can become a leader on these teams, and examples of institutional and cultural barriers associated with data use in schools 6. To align comprehensive school counseling programs and multi-tiered systems of support through the delivery of evidence-based practices 7. To be able to use technology to analyze assessment and survey data, to create graphs and charts illustrating the results of these data, and create presentations that demonstrate the results of a school counseling intervention or program 8. To be able to identify the characteristics that are present in strong outcome research, including an understanding of such concepts as meta-analysis, reliability, validity, effect size, and statistical significance 9. To know how to develop classroom guidance programming, including understanding how to address issues of scope, sequence, assessment, and differentiation and how to link curriculum choices to existing research and the common core curriculum 10. To develop meaningful learning objectives and instructional plans related to broader curriculum goals and student needs and to know how to effectively assess learning through multiple modalities 11. To understand methods of evaluation for determining the impact of school counseling interventions and strategies for sharing these results with stakeholders
Topical Outline
• Introduction to evidence-based practices in school counseling, comprehensive school counseling programming, current educational trends, data terms • Summary of more commonly used interventions across school levels. Examples of EVP’s in the three developmental domains: academic, career, and social-emotional • Introduce data-based decision making model, asking essential questions, Understanding by Design • Review examples of state-level, district-level, school-level, and student-level data • Discuss collaborative data teams in schools- PBIS, RtI, EIP; developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders • Developing comprehensive school counseling programming, measurable learning objectives, multiple measures of assessment, linking to broader curriculum • Managing classroom behavior, co-instruction, differentiation, Universal Design for Learning • Elements of strong outcome research, basic research concepts • Using technology to collect data, analyze findings, create presentations, and reports
Syllabus
Public CV