NC School Counselors Guidance Essential Standards

1. NC School CounselorsGuidance Essential Standards Regional Summer Institutes

2. Todaysmeet http://todaysmeet.com/Oct12guidmtg Use this link today to share ideas, ask questions, or make comments.

3. NC K-12 Guidance Essential Standards Our Goal:NC public schools will produce globally competitive students. The Purpose of Standards:To define and communicate the knowledge and skills a student must master to be globally competitive. Mission

4. New Common Core State Standards &Essential Standards • Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and NC Essential Standards(ES) are for all subject areas – including Guidance Curriculum • Based on Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy • Aligned with ASCA National Standards for Students (National Model)

5. NC K-12 Guidance Essential Standards: What are they? • “Must Have" goals of the guidance curriculum • Skills, understandings and learning experiences students master at each developmental level progressing to the next level • Focused on higher-order knowledgeand skills all students should master - Assurance that every student learns essential content and skills for the 21st Century • Assessed in the classroom via formative, benchmark/interim, and summative assessments to inform of student learning and teaching practices.

6. Crosswalk of Standards ASCA National Standards for Students NC K-12 Guidance Essential Standards for Students Socio-Emotional Cognitive Career • Personal-Social • Academic • Career • Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Proficiency Levels • Readiness/Exploratory/Discovery (RED) • Early Emergent/Emergent (EEE) • Progressing (P) • Early Independent (EI) • Independent (I)

7. Standards are not… • Intended to be the comprehensive school counseling program • The same as the School Counselor evaluation or appraisal instrument ************************************** School counselors are leaders in their school and advocates for creating positive systemic change

8. Our Guiding Question? What do students need to know, understand and be able to do, to ensure their success in the future, whether it be to continue progressing through current study, post-secondary college or a career?

9. 4 Questions of a PLC (DuFour) • What do we want students to learn? (NC Guidance Essential Standards) • How will we know if they have learned it? (Data Literacy) • How will we respond when they don’t learn it? (Connecting to Serve All Students) • How will we respond when they already know it? (Connecting to Serve All Students)

10. How I teach this standard The Big Picture Standard Differentiation Connections How this standard is assessed: formative benchmark summative How this standard is reflected in student behavior/work Connections

11. Understanding the Standards • Preamble – Overview and purpose • Preamble Scavenger Hunt Activity • Table Teams: Answer and Discuss the questions of the Scavenger Hunt

13. Understanding the Standards • Standards are for Students • Proficiency Levels – based on student readiness, NOT a grade level placement • Clarifying Objectives indicate what students are to know, understand, and be able to do

14. Proficiency Levels, Strands, Standards and Clarifying Objectives….No Grade Levels, Oh My! • Strand 1(S1): Socio-Emotional (SE) • Strand 2 (S2): Cognitive (C) • Strand 3 (S3): Career (CR) • 2-4 Essential Standards per strand with clarifying objectives for students to master within the proficiency levels for each standard

15. Dr. Lorin W. Anderson RBT Module at NC Education

16. CreatingGenerating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing thingsDesigning, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.EvaluatingJustifying a decision or course of actionChecking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging AnalyzingBreaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationshipsComparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating, findingApplyingUsing information in another familiar situationImplementing, carrying out, using, executingUnderstandingExplaining ideas or conceptsInterpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing, classifying, explainingRememberingRecalling informationRecognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY Higher-order thinking

17. Remembering

18. Evaluating

19. Evaluating Activities and Products • Write a letter to the editor • Prepare and conduct a debate • Evaluate the character’s actions in the story • Write a persuasive speech arguing for/against…

20. RBT and Guidance Essential Standards

21. Life As a School Counselor

22. Example: Essential Standard Readiness:RED.SE.1 Understand the meaning and importance of personal responsibility. Clarifying Objective: RED.SE.1.1Understand the importance of self-control and responsibility. Activity: RED.SE.1: Your best friend tells a lie about you to several of your friends. • Describe how this makes you feel. • Draw a picture showing how this made you feel. • List three (3) things you can do in this situation to help you control your emotions.

23. Example: Essential Standard Early Independent:EI.SE.1 Understand the meaning and importance of personal responsibility. Clarifying Objective: EI.SE.1.1 Explain the impact of personal responsibility on others. Activity: EI.SE.1: You are with two friends when a third friend asks you to steal an item off the lunch line. • How would you categorize this behavior (stealing)? • What function will your personal values play in your decision making about this request? • Analyze how your decision in how this matter could affect your future.

24. Understanding the Standards Team Activities: Alignment Activity - Look at the Standards Sheet on your table. List guidance curriculum activities you or teachers in your school are currently doing that align with the clarifying objectives/standards/strands

25. Where do I find the Guidance Essential Standards & Unpacking Documents • NCDPI School Counseling(LiveBinders) • NCDPI School Counseling Wikispace