Academic Functioning:Education Interventions

Catalog description

For School Counselors, understanding teaching and learning is critical. Besides testing and counseling, School Counselors are expected to serve on pre-referral intervention teams and to consult with over- worked teachers on a variety of issues. This course provides students with tools to perform those functions. Students attain a basic understanding of how people learn, as well as the most popular theories about learning as a social and cognitive process. Focus is on recognizing where and how learning problems typically arise, tools and strategies to prevent and/or remediate such problems. While there is an assessment component, this is not a testing course. The assessment in this course is dynamic in nature and used directly in intervention planning. Consultation issues are briefly covered.