Adding Tools to Your Toolbox through Mentoring Meetings

Elementary Counselors New to Gwinnett

July 22, 2008

8:00-12:00

All School Levels Meeting Together

Topics for Discussion include:

  • Get Acquainted Activities
  • GSCEP & RBES
  • SASI Training
  • Monthly Reports
  • Lesson Plan Database
  • E-Handbook
  • Confidentiality & Mandated Reporter Training
  • Meeting by Worksetting
  • Professional Library Tour

August 21, 2008

1:30 – 3:30

Special Lesson Planning Session at BLES

Topics for Discussion include:

  • Lesson Planning
  • Make and Take

September 18, 2008

12:00-4:00

Topics for Discussion include:

  • Personal Safety Training – Lessons on Child Abuse Prevention
  • Getting Your Schedule Together - Class Guidance & Small Groups
  • Classroom Management Ideas
  • Competency Documentation Sheets
  • Management Agreements
  • Parent Conferences
  • Professional Organizations Information
  • Peer Consultation – discussion of individual problem cases
  • A Time for Reflection and Discussion


October 17, 2008

8:00-4:00

All Levels Meeting

Topics for Discussion include:

  • Tours – DFACS, InternationalCenter
  • Peer Consultation – discussion of individual problem cases
  • A Time for Reflection and Discussion

December 11, 2008

12:00-4:00

Topics for Discussion include:

  • Review of Standards and Competencies
  • General Activities – monthly checklists, a few ideas
  • School Climate
  • Attendance Ideas & AYP
  • Cyberspace Safety
  • Ideas for Special Needs Populations (i.e. – Tourettes)
  • Peer Consultation – discussion of individual problem cases
  • A Time for Reflection and Discussion

January 16, 2009

12:00-4:00

Topics for Discussion include:

  • Responding to Crises
  • RBES Follow-Up – Mid Year Review
  • Monthly Ideas – Check student attendance & grades, Staff Pick Me Up
  • Parenting Seminars
  • Make and Take – Several ideas and supporting materials completed
  • Peer Consultation – discussion of individual problem cases
  • A Time for Reflection and Discussion

March 25, 2009

12:00-4:00

Topics for Discussion include:

  • Standardized Testing and the Counselor’s role
  • End of the Year Survival Ideas
  • Transition to Middle School Activities and Ideas
  • Make and Take Activity
  • Peer Consultation – discussion of individual problem cases
  • A Time for Reflection and Discussion

April 29, 2009

12:00-4:00

Topics for Discussion include:

  • Data Collection & Analysis
  • RBES Conclusion
  • Celebration
  • Annual Evaluation & Reflection