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Working together to increase learning!

This piece explores the essential partnership between school counselors and special education teachers in fostering student growth. While both teams bring vital strengths such as creativity, patience, and strong communication skills, challenges like limited knowledge of each other's roles and time constraints can hinder collaboration. The article discusses barriers to effective relationships, highlights effective communication strategies, and emphasizes the importance of shared responsibilities in advocating for students. Together, they can streamline processes, improve student outcomes, and create a supportive school environment.

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Working together to increase learning!

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  1. Working together to increase learning! Collaboration between school counselors and special education teachers

  2. Strengths • School counselors • Creative • Patient • Good listeners • Team players • Student focused • Assertive • Special education teachers • Knowledgeable about their field • Patient • Creative • Team players • Student focused • Assertive

  3. Weaknesses • School counselors • Limited knowledge in the special education policies and procedures • Pressed for time • Limited access • Need to improve on time management and organization skills • Special education teachers • Limited knowledge of the counselor’s role • Pressed for time • Communication

  4. The Wright Family • Everyone take a penny and stand in a circle. • Listen carefully for two things • What is going on in the story • And for the words right and left • If you hear the word right, pass your penny to the right, if you hear the word left, pass your penny to the left.

  5. Barriers to an effective working relationship • Lack of communication • Not understanding • Last minute deadlines • Limited access/lack of information • Power struggle

  6. Roles we play • Counselors • Caregiver and sometimes parent • Advocate • Cheerleader • First line of defense for teachers • Coach and drill sergeant • Mediators and instigators • Special Education teachers • Advocate • IEP coordinators • TEACHERS! • Mediators for parents and regular education teachers

  7. What's working • Communication- when teachers need something on the counseling end it gets done…eventually. • Teachers help counselors find the needed information

  8. Needs vs. wants • Access to IEPs and behavioral plans • Opportunity to participate in IEP meetings • Updated mods • To know who the teacher of record is. “It’s a battle!” • Unnecessary steps- process needs to flow better • Need information sooner

  9. What we can achieve • A more streamlined method of getting paperwork done. • Student growth! • A happy faculty and staff. • Clear up misunderstandings.

  10. Q&A*Thibodaux High School*Keena Lewis*Salena Richard*Ashley Edwards

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