SCN:600 School Counseling
Professional Dispositions and Behaviors
Part 1: Personal and Professional Traits List
Compile a list of personal and professional traits you must display to maintain professionalism as a school counselor. Consider both your areas of strength and areas for growth in developing your list.
Reflect on the areas of development you will focus on during your practicum to foster your growth and development as a school counselor. These areas of growth can be generated from the ASCA School Counselor Self-Assessment of the Delivery Competencies Part IV, ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards & Competencies Self-Assessment assignment and the Professional Dispositions: Survey and video assignment, both found in Topic 4 of SCN-501.
Part 2: Reflection
After compiling the list of professional and personal traits, write a 500-750-word reflection and address the following:
- Discuss your identified professional and personal traits informed by ASCA’s School Counselor Professional Standards & Competencies and GCU’s Professional Dispositions of Learners. You should identify a minimum of three strengths and three areas of growth.
- Explain how you will build upon your areas of strength during your practicum experience.
- Read the “Statement on the Integration of Faith and Work.” Explain how a school counselor with the Christian worldview might build upon areas of strengths to develop a professional identity.
- How might faith diversity factor into this process?
- Identify concrete action-oriented steps to assist you in your areas for growth.
- Explain how advocacy and leadership play a role in your professional identity development as a school counselor in training.
- Describe ways your site supervisor and course instructor can help you further develop your professional identity as a school counselor in training.
- Describe how you will collaborate with students, families, staff, and administration.