Counselor Educator and Administrator: What Do They Want From Each Other?

Abstract

Unfortunately, a relatively large majority of teachers, school administrators, and other school personnel view the counselor and his function in a vastly different perspective than do his mentors, the counselor educators. In an attempt to bring the academic world together with the world of reality (the school community), a workshop format was developed to provide counselor educators and top‐level school administrators an opportunity to meet and to discuss issues of mutual concern. Although some of the issues generated would seem fairly commonplace in another context, here they served to bring about considerable rapport and good feeling between the counselor educator and the administrator. Indications are that further workshops be held to bring school people and counselor trainers together, to serve both the purpose of acquainting the school person with the counselor's perceived function, and to introduce the counselor trainer to the real problems of the school environment. Not of small significance are some of the misconceptions that administrators have concerning the activity of the school counselor, due in part to the lack of communication between administrator and training institution and vice versa.

A Role for the Counselor Educator in Teacher Education

“…But, interestingly enough, these come from other professionals in the field. Boller (1973) found that school administrators think counselor educators should playa more vital role in the training of teachers. In a discussion about "teacher centers," Fibkins (1974) maintained that as teacher centers develop they need people with participant observation, communication, human relations, and small group processing skills to help teachers plan renewal and retraining systems.…”