Counseling II: Problem Solving and Support

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Overview

Every day, educational counselors and student support coordinators in ABE programs help students negotiate issues that affect their abilities to pursue their goals. In this four-hour training, student support coordinators and counselors will learn how they can further support students’ learning, retention and achievement of goals through the application of problem-solving techniques. As they learn new techniques through practice in experiential problem-solving, they will increase their capacity to help students who come to them with a range of issues and abilities. Also, the participants will become more aware of the problem-solving strategies they, themselves, already employ and they will also improve their ability to teach and model for students the skills and attitudes of successful problem-solvers. Participants will learn to help students identify their own problems, needs and strengths as well as the most promising courses of action to addresses them, and will benefit greatly from gaining specific training in recognizing and expanding their problem-solving methods.

Details

When

March 20, 2009 from 10:00 am to 02:30 pm

Where

• QCC, The Harrington Learning Center, Room 109B
• 670 West Boylston St., Worcester, MA 01606

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Topics

Counseling

Contact info

Cathy Gannon
cgannon@qcc.mass.edu
508-854-2726

Indicators of Program Quality

IPQ3 - Student support services

Learning objectives

As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to:

·      approach problems and problem-solving from a variety of perspectives

·      understand how attitudes and emotions may have positive or negative effects on the problem solving process

·      develop a deeper awareness of their strengths and skills as problem-solvers while identifying areas for further development

·      apply and model problem-solving techniques with students so that students can apply them on their own

·      identify the most effective problem-solving approaches and techniques for the most common problems faced by the students in our programs (including, for example, preventive problem-solving; prioritizing and sequencing; perspectives and assumptions; and entry points)

Presenters

Laura Kransis

Presenters Bio

Laura Kranis, ABE Counselor at SCALE in Somerville, has worked in Adult Literacy since 1999. She has also worked as a psychotherapist, writing coach, learning styles consultant, life coach, crisis interventionist, family therapy team member, university instructor, and hospice intern. Her studies have included literature, psychology, linguistics, arts therapies, psychoanalytic theories, and existential philosophy. Thank goodness she’s also a comedy writer, or she wouldn’t be any fun at all!

Host RSC

Central Massachusetts Region

PDPs

no

Snow Date

Mar 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM