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School Counselor Education Program Guide University of Massachusetts, Amherst GENERAL PROGRAM INFORMATION Spring 2012 Mission School counselors can have a powerful influence on childrens academic, vocational, personal, and social development. We believe that school counseling practices and programs need to be grounded in an understanding of the ways that childrens development is shaped by the contexts within which they live. School counselors need to be able to intervene at the individual level and also at the level of the school, family, and community system. School counselors have an ethical obligation to ensure that the school within they work provide quality education for all children. We believe that all school counselors must be multiculturally competent and committed to social justice and equity in education. We recruit a diverse student body that includes students of many races, backgrounds, and nationalities because we believe that it is important to include a broad spectrum of perspectives in order to understand and solve problems in education. We take great care in developing a community composed of our faculty and students and expect everyone to be responsible and contributing members of that community. Our program is modeled after CACREP standards, is NCATE approved, and satisfies all the requirements for Massachusetts School Counseling Licensure. Our own expectations for students exceed these requirements. We typically admit 7-15 students per year so that we can work closely with all our students. We only admit students who we anticipate will be develop into exemplary school counselors and leaders in the field. Consistent with our association with the Education Trust, in addition to traditional school counseling skills, we expect that all students will develop exemplary skills in: ? Leadership ? Advocacy and Systems Change ? Teaming and Collaboration ? Program Coordination ? Assessment and Use of Data ? Use of Technology