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New School Counselor Perceptions of Their Mentoring and Induction Program
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Loveless, Carol P. – Georgia School Counselors Association Journal, 2010
School counselors in their first year of practice within the profession or within a new school district can experience challenges in assuming the professional responsibilities associated with their role. Mentoring programs are one form of professional assistance that has been recommended in the literature for new educators, including school…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Program Effectiveness, School Counselors, Staff Orientation
Perceptions Held by New School Counselors of Their Induction Training Programs
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Loveless, Carol P. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Current literature on the effectiveness of structured mentoring or induction programs for new counselors is lacking. Concurrently, new school counselors often experience difficulty in assuming the professional responsibilities associated with their role during the initial year of practice. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Suburban Schools, Program Improvement, Program Effectiveness
Day-to-Day Activities of School Counselors: Alignment with New Directions in the Field and the ASCA National Model[R]
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Walsh, Mary E.; Barrett, James G.; DePaul, Jillian – Professional School Counseling, 2007
Role changes in the profession of school counseling take considerable time to be enacted in practice. The purpose of the study in this article is to examine whether newly hired elementary school counselors working in urban settings can implement (a) new directions for practice that have emerged in the recent school counseling literature (i.e., a…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, School Counselors, School Counseling, Elementary Education