I do agree. Because we are guiding these students through the most important time in their life. We are acting as advisers, helping them make decisions considering the advantages and disadvantages of alternatives that are available to them.
If your students trust you, and believe you are acting in their best interests, they will be more susceptible to your counseling.
I agree. While educating our students is our main role is so plain to see based just on our title of instructor or teacher, we are also practicing in the mental health business as well. By encouraging our students we help them build confidence. By coaching our students we can point out undesirable behaviors that will not allow for their full success in the future, then we can try to reduce or eliminate those behaviors over time. We help the student to become molded into what the industry wants as far as technical skills and with the professional soft skills as well. Many times the students HABEs must be overcome first to be able to be successful in both.
I do agree. Because we are guiding these students through the most important time in their life. We are acting as advisers, helping them make decisions considering the advantages and disadvantages of alternatives that are available to them.
If your students trusts you, and believes you are acting in their best interests, they will be more susceptible to your counseling.
So true. One other strategy is to have on-campus activities to get students involved in to connect them with the college and take their attention away from external goings on. The more campus clubs and activities you can manage to keep the students involved and connected, the better their chances of staying in school and keeping the focus of why they are there.
It sometimes feels that way, but in reality we are just experiencing may of the habits, attitudes, beliefs and expectations that the student came to us with and they need our help to re-route their focus. We have all faced those "mental health" students before, and although some are real issues, most are just a matter of redirecting their energy, guiding them to a higher self-esteem, and making them believe in themselves through use of the 3Ms.
I have to agree with “outside baggage" statement. Students are usually in a new city and state and then can get sidetracked on things going on outside of school. Just taking the time as an instructor and explaining, “it’s only temporary and stay focused on the big picture” can make a big difference.
As a general rule of thumb I agree with the statement. We sepend a lot of time coaching, cheering, and counseling students that want to quit school, are not passing classes, or bring a lot of "outside baggage" to school. Many times they only need someone to take an interest in them and give a strategically placed kind word or listening ear. In many cases we also work with the "high-flyers" as they want to show us the work they are doing and their successes.
I agree some of our younger studants may establish there work ethics from what they learn in our class, And keep them all through life.
