Flashlight Presentation
- 1. School Counseling Classroom Lesson Results Presentation (7th Grade) Academic & High School Planning Mission Middle School Counseling Program Anahi Amador & Gloria Torres School Counseling Interns
- 2. School Counseling Program Overview The Mission Middle School School Counseling Program Mission is to offer a comprehensive data-driven American School Counselor Association (ASCA) school counseling program that supports ALL students reach their academic, social/emotional, and college/career potential & success. ASCA Domains: Academic Development College/Career Readiness Social/Emotional Development
- 3. Rationale - Why Did We Teach This Lesson? The National Office for School Counselor Advocacy (NOSCA, 2018) states that middle school counselors create opportunities to explore and deepen college and career knowledge and skills necessary for academic planning and goal setting to support students’ college and career readiness by: ● Identify their strengths, build resiliency skills, make personal commitments to learning ● Help students use good learning habits ● Look and evaluate data on promotion and GPA Our pre-test confirmed that many students did not know about the GPA requirement for promotion, how many choices they had for high school, or which high school was lottery only. This pre-test will serve as a great jumping off point for future lessons for our 7th and 8th graders.
- 4. Lesson Objectives, ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors Student Objectives: ▪ Students will understand basic information about eighth grade promotion and the high school transition by participating in a counselor-led class discussion. ▪ Students will identify their own GPA and test scores, and develop an academic SMART goal by working on the student data tracker worksheet. ASCA Domain: ▪ Academic Development Mindsets & Behaviors: ▪ M 4. Understanding that postsecondary education and life-long learning are necessary for long-term career success. ▪ B-LS 7. Identify long- and short-term academic, career and social/emotional goals
- 5. Process Data ▪ Who: 328 students (all 7th graders) ▪ Where: Social Studies classes (Mr. Martinez & Mr. Bunker) ▪ When: Thursday, April 5 and Monday, April 9, 2018 ▪ What: School counselor generated lesson on: ▪ 8th grade promotion requirements ▪ High school transition in EUHSD ▪ Academic review ▪ Academic SMART goal setting
- 6. I believe I can be successful in 8th grade. Strongly agree: 28% → 39% Perception Data. 91% of students believe that they can be successful in 8th grade
- 7. Strongly agree: 33% → 43% I believe I can promote to high school.Perception Data. 93% of students believe that they can promote to high school
- 8. What GPA do I need to promote to high school? Perception Data. 342% Increase! 84% of students know that they need a GPA of 2.0 or higher to participate in 8th grade promotion celebrations
- 9. How many choices do I have for high school in the EUHSD? Perception Data. 142% Increase! 97% of students know that they have 4 high school options to choose from in the EUHSD
- 10. Which high school selects students by lottery only? Perception Data. 67% Increase! 92% of students know that Del Lago Academy is the only high school that selects student by lottery only
- 11. S.M.A.R.T. Goals worksheet 79% of students can identify and evaluate their GPA and test scores (MAPS and CAASPP) and develop an academic SMART goal. % of Students that were able to create an academic SMART goal. Perception Data.
- 12. Examples of students’ academic SMART goals. Perception Data.
- 13. Limitations, Implications, Lessons Learned + Next Steps ▪ Kahoot ▪ Post-test showed increase in % of students who “strongly disagree” ▪ Likely due to responses being public and students wanting a reaction from their peers, who often looked around the room at the reveal of the answers and asked out loud, “Who put strongly disagree?” ▪ SMART Goals ▪ We found that in the class periods where we had more time (Monday, compared to shortened periods on Thursday), more students were able to successfully create an academic SMART goal Next Steps: ▪ Continue to monitor student GPAs and Standardized Tests Scores ▪ 8th grade core curriculum lessons on promotion and high school planning
- 14. Thank you to all Mission Middle School staff, and in particular Mr. Martinez and Mr. Bunker, for your contributions to these efforts and your support of the school counseling program. We could not do this without you!