Service Learning

1. In Buena Vista Arts-Integrated elementary school as the think together program.
2. My contact is Rupa Patel-site coordinator, address- 5685 San Bernardino st. Montclair, CA 91763, email- buenavista@thinktogether.org
3.  During my service learning hours I will be working with children age 5-15, each of them have different personality, I was in charge of making sure they were finishing their work and been respectful, responsible, and safe. After their snack time they go inside to do their homework and once they needed help I would help them out and also play with them when it was play time. So far, its been good experiencing and spending time with the children.
4. Right now, I have zero hours of service learning.  Since I didn't have a place to go because of certain issues. Either I couldn't contact certain agencies or because of confidentiality issues. So this week I finally got a yes and Started today 2-07-12. 

Blog 13: Answer #1

EQ

What is the best way to become a successful middl school counselor?

Answer #1

A counselor is someone who gives guidance and helps you in certain fields of life. But in order to do so a counselor should fist be able to understand the reasons to why both males and females have different mind sets to know how to approach them.

Resources

1. Why Gender Matters by Leonard Sax. This book has several reasons to why male and females differ. For example females hearing is alot more sensative then males. Females vision tiggers certain colors. Explains why most girls like colorful colors rather than boys. Or how in society its well known that females are the ones who read. What happens is that in the brain these certain nerves in which appels to words rather then numbers or vise versa for males.
2. Girls Against Girls: Why Girls are so mean to eachother. This maily focuses on the females perspective. Explains how hormones, brain development, biological, society has a big part of why girls act the way they do.
3. Society vs the People. This articale explains how society has a big roll in how people see things. Teens are begining to dress as if they were around 18 when they are only 13. Boys are letting TV mold them. Most believe its fine to have one night stands and girls are okay with it.

I believe this is a great answer because you need background on how you should be able to approach  these teens. You might think its shocking how they dress but for them its something completely normal. A counselor should be able to fit in and in a way be a friend to the teen.