By Laura Driscoll | Group Counseling , Individual Counseling
Without knowing you, I know that there are some worriers on your caseload. I’m sure that you are regularly looking for engaging activities for anxiety that will help your students. That’s probably how you wound up on this post. Well, dig in. This post has 6 key skills you want to cover in individual sessions […]
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By Laura Driscoll | Social Emotional Skills
Are you wanting to teach social emotional learning skills and are not quite sure where to start or where to fit it in your schedule? Start out adding in some simple routines that will help students practice social emotional skills throughout the day. Here are five SEL tools I think should be in every elementary […]
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By Laura Driscoll | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy , Individual Counseling
In every classroom there are students with anxiety. Counselors and teachers can support these students with a simple school-based intervention that will take them step by step through managing their worries. Students will learn how to create a plan for recognizing their anxious thoughts and challenging them. Hello KICK PlansKICK stands for four steps: Knowing […]
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By Laura Driscoll | Behavior , Teacher Consultation
I worked with a teacher, let’s call her Ginnie, who had the biggest heart and the worst classroom behavior management strategies. Very quickly into each year, multiple kids would be on behavior plans and she was modifying everything for everyone. It came from such a good place, but it was exhausting and not helping her […]
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By Laura Driscoll | Social Emotional Skills
So you are looking to add social emotional learning activities to your upper elementary classroom, but aren’t sure where to start? It doesn’t have to be complicated or another boxed curriculum. Focus on adding simple SEL routines to your day and engaging activities like the ones below to help students practice age-expected SEL skills. 1. […]
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By Laura Driscoll | Group Counseling , Individual Counseling
You are getting ready to start seeing a student for individual counseling. You know what to do for the first and second session. But then what? What’s your plan to get them to meet their goals and exit counseling? Without a plan, I see two things happen: You see the student for individual school counseling sessions […]
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By Laura Driscoll | Behavior
When did you learn to how to write a behavior plan? Was it during your first year in your job? I must have missed the class in grad school where we went from all the theory behind challenging behaviors and actually learned to intervene. You missed that one too? What I did learn quickly was that […]
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By Laura Driscoll | Social Emotional Skills
How do you incorporate social emotional learning into your classroom? It doesn’t need to be a specific block in your schedule or a boxed curriculum or when the school counselors comes in for 30 minutes. You can teach many SEL skills by weaving them into the activities you already use.To increase the impact of any […]
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By Laura Driscoll | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy , Individual Counseling
No school counselor would say that negative thinking is their top referral concern. BUT if you really stop for a second, isn’t it? Aren’t your little worriers filling their head with negative self-talk? Isn’t anger often the result of some quick (automatic) negative thoughts?Just like building a student’s awareness of their feelings, it is important […]
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