Guidance ~N~ Action
A Manual for Educational Counselors/Facilitators
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Overview Guidance ~N~ Action is a program developed with a two-fold purpose, 1) To help minimize the workload of school counselors/facilitators. 2) To facilitate the inclusion of students who never participate in extracurricular activities, giving them an opportunity to truly take pride in changing the culture and climate of their schools. When children make the transition from elementary to middle school, it is very important that they be well endowed with empowerment and entrepreneurial skills. With this concept in mind, I felt there needed to be two categories of clubs for students to participate in, foundation clubs and supplemental clubs. The foundation clubs are yearly clubs that the students participate in from the beginning of the school year until the end of the school year. The scheduling of meetings and the material that is covered during the school year is at the discretion of the counselor/facilitator. The purpose of the foundation clubs is to monitor the growth and maturity of the students based on the number of meetings throughout the school year. The supplemental clubs which are semester based are designed to give more students an opportunity to participate in a variety of clubs. The counselor/facilitator has full discretion as to which clubs are needed at their individual schools. The supplemental clubs can be phased in over a three to five year period. The students can exercise their individual personality and choose the club that best suits them. This action eliminates teacher bias in choosing the students that are labeled as “good” students. One of the main objectives of this program is that the students learn key concepts during the time they are participating in the various clubs. Students are required to take a pretest at the beginning and a posttest at the end to measure the application of the concepts learned during the semester in which they participated. To ensure their knowledge of the concepts, the clubs, which meet on a weekly basis, are required to take a weekly test. The students also incorporate these concepts into the morning announcements starting the second semester of the school year. At the end of the school year all students that participated in any of the clubs, evaluate the effectiveness of the program by completing a questionnaire. The most rewarding part of this program is that the students are taught train-the-trainee concepts where existing students train incoming students on club operation and purpose. For the counselor, the role is therefore switched from that of counselor/facilitator to coach/liaison. With this in mind the counselor/facilitator can continue with his/her daily duties while the students display the concepts that they have learned for one full semester.
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Guidance ~N~ Action is preparation endowed with an infinite affiliation for success. This program is designed to cultivate the traditional stance of public school life to an elevated advancement that involves closing the gap between the children that are celebrated and those that are tolerated. The guiding lights of our mission are to induce students understanding and conceptual outlook of life, develop and maintain greater coping and adaptation skills toward the overall school experience. Children often times steer where they stare, however with proper guidance imparted they can be groomed into being responsible, well rounded adults. Moreover, the vision entails the conception of liberation for every child to push past their immediate environment to reach the climax of possibilities for tomorrow. The program is patterned to transform dreams into reality with the energetic concept of GGL (Go expecting, Get what you came for, and Leave Smiling).
About the Author
Marquis Cooper, Sr. is an award winning educator, father, Professional school counselor, Executive Director of 12welve(www.12welve.ning.com), a community based organization designed to increase leadership and responsibility with at risk males and females that is transferable to their communities, and author of Guidance ~N~ Action (www.guidancenaction.com) a program designed to change the culture and climate of public schools by “bridging the gap” while “removing the cap” of limitations, between the children that are celebrated and those that are tolerated. A seasoned seminar leader and motivational speaker. He has delivered presentations and keynote addresses at national conferences, school districts, workshops, universities, colleges, schools, and meetings in various states. He is emerging as one of today’s most powerful and dynamic speakers.
Marquis holds a B.A. degree in Elementary Education, a M. Ed degree in Counselor Education, and is currently seeking a Doctorate in Education Administration from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Over the past 10 years he has served as an advocate for children of all capacities. He provides an uncommon understanding to the issues of students both in the public and private sectors, the juvenile justice system, the primary, the middle, the secondary and at the post secondary level.
He has coined the quote, “if you leave and grow, you can come back and plant.” He continues to plant seeds of success and change by helping others to understand that your current circumstance does not dictate your future. His work is beneficial to all people. He continues to impact the lives of all he comes in contact with. His compassion, self-sacrifice, dedication and keen intellectual insight into the personal and social development of students, parents, men and women of all ages has left many individuals with a sense of empowerment and a need for change.