1. Week Six Lecture Notes Darcy B. Tannehill, Ed.D.

2. Multiculturalism, Leadership, Teaching, and Counseling • Multiculuralism • If projections continue, 47.2% of the U.S. population will be comprised of minority populations • Increased enrollment of international students • Greatest changes in community colleges and public institutions • Student affairs plays a pivotal role

3. Multiculturalism • Diversity vs. multiculturalism • Diversity is a structure that includes the presence of individuals with different attributes such as culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc. • Multiculturalism is a state of being where a person feels comfortable and communicates well with people for any culture or situation

4. Multiculturalism • Models of multicultural development • Intercultural sensitvity • Pedersen’s model • Multicultural Organizational Change • Application of the models • Developing Competencies • Tools and techniques • Parker’s Action Plan • Power and Privilege Exercise

5. Leadership • Conventional views of leadership • Alternative views of leadership • Servant • Transforming • Critical • Paradigm of Leadership • Collaborative Leadership • Role of ethics in leadership

6. Leadership • Competencies, Behaviors, and Beliefs • Self-development and change • Authentic relationships • Collaborative learning environments • Sharing power • Creative conflict • Shared Purposes • Asking critical questions • Developing a systemic view

7. Teaching • Traditional teaching • Teacher as lecturer • Students as listener • Good teaching • Links theory, teaching, and research to practice • Engages in critical thinking • Learning as training • Administrative training • Professional-technical training • Mechanical-technical training • Interpersonal training

8. Teaching • Essential skills and knowledge • Active, cooperative, and collaborative learning • Facilitating groups • Leading discussion and dialogue • Team building • Teaching multicultural populations • Training other trainers

9. Counseling and Helping Skills • Components of the helping relationship • Genuineness • Unconditional positive regard • Empathy • Concretenes • Self-disclosure • Immediacy • confrontation

10. Counseling and Helping Skilles • Model of the Helping Process • Phase I • Responding skills to communicate • Phase II • Personalizing • Phase III • Assisting to specify goals, make plans, and move to action

11. Counseling and Helping Skills • Developmental concerns • Normal issues and problems • Remedial concerns • Opposite spectrum of development concerns • Unclear concerns • Not easily classified

12. Counseling and Helping Skills • Assess concerns • Helping intervention • Dealing with disturbed and disturbing students • Develop and intervention plan and team • Assisting students in making life decisions • Minimum skills and knowledge required of allied professional counselors • Ethical issues affecting helping relationships

13. References • Komives, S.F. and Woodard, D. B., Jr. (Eds). (2004). Student Services: A Handbook for the profession. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.