The first thing I
would like to address is the teaching verses educating aspect of student’s
future lives. I think this is a key component
even though it may be small when looking at how to get the healthy information
to our students. According to Dollarhide and
Saginak (2012) teaching is something that deals with giving instruction to and
educate means to advance the mental, aesthetic, physical, and moral development
of someone. I say this is important because
I do this in my resident hall. When I
create programs for the hall, I try to educate them through something fun. I do not sit them down and just teach them
the material. The one program that I did
was taking fair trade chocolate and Hersey’s chocolate and did a blind taste
test and then after they were done, I gave them a few facts about the
difference between the two. I had fun
and so did my residents. We need to
educate or students in unique ways and not just teach them.
When
I was looking at the curricular integration charts, I was really
surprised. I say this because everything
from my childhood makes so much sense now. When looking over some of the academic
subjects and some of the developmental curriculum that went into planning the
classes, my eyes just opened and I understood how they educate us. I mean there are some that I know make sense,
but then there are others that are tricky to put into the curriculum. I just now understand how we as school
counselors can educate our student’s healthy development topics.
When
looking at Akos’s (2005) article, he talks about the philosophy of middle
school counseling and how this age group is a really important group to educate
some of the healthy characteristics of a human being. This age is a curial period to educate
students on healthy habits and I think the curricular integration charts in the
Dollarhide and Saginak (2012) book matches that philosophy. I say this because looking at the elementary
and secondary level compared to the middle school one shows that there are much
more curial topics in the middle school chart.
Now I am not saying that the other two are not necessary but I feel like
the middle school curriculum has better topics than the other two. Overall, I think it is important to have a
curriculum at each level of learning and the curricular integration chart in
the Dollarhide and Saginak (2012) book is a good start.
Akos, P. (2005). The unique
nature of middle school counseling. Professional
school counseling, 9, 95-103.
Dollarhide, C.T., & Saginak,
K.A. (2012). Comprehensive school
counseling programs (2nd Ed.). New York: Pearson
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