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Helping in the Hallways

Expanding Your Influence Potential

Take advantage of informal encounters to encourage, motivate, and connect with students!

When school counselors venture outside the classroom or office, they can increase the number and effectiveness of encounters with students. The author helps counselors use these brief, less-structured interactions to create learning opportunities, improve student performance, and foster a positive school culture. This revised edition references the ASCA National Model and addresses legislation such as NCLB. Expanded sections provide:

  • Specific strategies for effective encounters
  • Experiences and perspectives from teachers, students, and administrators
  • Additional self-assessment activities and practice scenarios
  • Tables and sidebars highlighting key points

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781412956086
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2008
  • Page Count: 184
  • Publication date: June 04, 2008
Price: $39.95
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"A refreshing, timely model that can assist educators in impacting the large number of students they serve."
—Becky Brannock, Professor and Coordinator of School Counseling
Pittsburgh State University

"Touches on the heart and soul of school counseling and provides innovative, practical ways to empower school personnel to become more proactive in communication and leadership."
—Jason M. McGlothlin, Associate Professor and Coordinator of School Counseling
Kent State University

Take advantage of informal encounters to encourage, motivate, and connect with students!

When school counselors venture outside the classroom or office into less formal settings, they can increase the number and effectiveness of encounters with students. Helping in the Hallways, Second Edition allows counselors to use these brief, less-structured interactions to create learning opportunities, improve student performance, and foster a positive school culture.

This revised edition references the ASCA National Model and addresses legislation such as NCLB. Expanded sections provide:

  • Specific strategies for effective encounters
  • Experiences and perspectives from teachers, students, and administrators
  • Additional self-assessment activities and practice scenarios
  • Tables and sidebars highlighting key points

Use these strategies to promote a safe, comfortable environment for learning that helps students succeed in all phases of school life.


Key features

  • Updated to reflect current climate in school counseling and the ASCA National Model
  • Loads of strategies to demonstrate hallway encounters as a critical part of the school counselor's, teacher's, and administrator's role
  • Provides examples of "brief" counseling -- a research-based and proven strategy to help students
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Richard J. Hazler
Richard J. Hazler is professor of counselor education and coordinator of the Elementary School Counseling program at Penn State University. He has conducted research on a variety of topics and authored professional materials on bullying and victimization in schools. Hazler has worked as a school counselor and also as a counselor in the military, universities, prisons, and private practice and is noted for his work on humanistic approaches to counseling and counselor training. He has served as an elementary school teacher, writer, and director of programs for young people. His research and writing of numerous articles and books includes The Emerging Professional Counselor: Student Dreams to Professional Realities and Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Interventions for Bullying and Victimization. Hazler did graduate work at The College of New Jersey and earned a doctorate at the University of Idaho.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Life in the Hallways

Five-Minute Enlightening

Hallway Health

Joys, Risks, and Value

Learning Climate

Expanding Influence and Ideas

Finding Your Way in the Hallways

2. Hallway Challenges

Changing Pressures

Meeting Challenges in the Hallways

ASCA Collaborative Model

Making the Hallways Work for You

3. Evaluating Hallway Relationships

Security Spaces

Limited Time = Limited Goals

Readiness to Act

Context Assessment

Timing It Right

Location, Location, Location

Charting a Hallway Course

4. Courting Captive Clients

Environments for Change

Expanding the Hallways

Reflexes and Patience

Reacting to Readiness

5. Activating Adult Motivators

Power

Vulnerability

Joy

Tailoring Strategies for Teachers

Principal Investment

Appreciating Specialists

Forging Parental Partnerships

6. Steps to Hallway HELPING

Step 1: Hasten Normalization

Step 2: Evaluate Context

Step 3: Locate Common Goals

Step 4: Pragmatic Action Selection

Step 5: Initiate Multiple Connections

Step 6: Normal Adaptations

Step 7: Give Space

7. Student Development Openings

An Encouraging Word

Academic Thought Encouragers

Creative Communicators

Purposeful Words

Message Modeling

Affirmation Statements

8. Creating Adult Opportunities

Staff Supporters

Parental Partnerships

9. Daily Positive Messages

Body Talk

Big Ideas in Few Words

Final Reminders

References and Suggested Readings

Index

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Jason M. McGlothlin, Associate Professor and School Counseling Program Coordinator, Kent State University: "This second edition speaks directly to the reader and touches on the heart and soul of school counseling. It also provides innovative and practical ways to empower school personnel to become more proactive in communication and leadership."
"This second edition speaks directly to the reader and touches on the heart and soul of school counseling. It also provides innovative and practical ways to empower school personnel to become more proactive in communication and leadership."
Jason M. McGlothlin, Associate Professor and School Counseling Program Coordinator
Kent State University
Quote by Becky Brannock, Professor and School Counseling Program Coordinator, Pittsburgh State University: “As an educator, I certainly wish there had been a book of this nature when I first entered the profession 27 years ago! A refreshing, timely model that can assist educators in impacting the large number of students they serve, rather than the limited few who may actually seek out their services.”
“As an educator, I certainly wish there had been a book of this nature when I first entered the profession 27 years ago! A refreshing, timely model that can assist educators in impacting the large number of students they serve, rather than the limited few who may actually seek out their services.”
Becky Brannock, Professor and School Counseling Program Coordinator
Pittsburgh State University
Quote by Tom L. Petit, Elementary School Counselor, Ontario Local School District, Mansfield, OH: "An excellent resource that guides readers through the process of learning how to touch base with students in nontraditional settings.”
"An excellent resource that guides readers through the process of learning how to touch base with students in nontraditional settings.”
Tom L. Petit, Elementary School Counselor
Ontario Local School District, Mansfield, OH
Quote by Rebecca Powell Stanard, Professor of Counseling, University of West Georgia: "Quite simply a book that should be a part of every school counselor’s library.”
"Quite simply a book that should be a part of every school counselor’s library.”
Rebecca Powell Stanard, Professor of Counseling
University of West Georgia
Quote by Nicole R. Hill, Associate Professor and Licensed Professional Counselor, Idaho State University: "A must-read for all school counselors searching for methods to enhance the school environment and build a sense of community. This book inspires all of us to shift from 'thinking inside the box' to becoming more creative and ingenious thinkers."
"A must-read for all school counselors searching for methods to enhance the school environment and build a sense of community. This book inspires all of us to shift from 'thinking inside the box' to becoming more creative and ingenious thinkers."
Nicole R. Hill, Associate Professor and Licensed Professional Counselor
Idaho State University
Quote by The Bookwatch, June 2008, Midwest Book Review: "An excellent pick for education libraries, especially those catering to administrators."
"An excellent pick for education libraries, especially those catering to administrators."
The Bookwatch, June 2008
Midwest Book Review

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