6 ounselor’s Role | Vital to Students 2B Ogden Standard-Examiner, Monday, oe January 2, 196 _ g One of the newer features oftheir assignments varies consideducation, the school counselor,|erably, but the Ogden City and has come quietly and extensive-| Weber County school districts ly into the public school picture are reasonably typical of prowithout the fanfare which has gressive school districts. announced many innovations. Both have counselors staffing Today almost any junior or their secondary schools, but not senior high school across the in the elementary schools. Both country has its staff of counse- do provide some counseling and lors who provide a number of other special persennel departservices to students which were ment aid from the central office. not so readily accessible only a Through Utah and generally decade or so ago—and that’s a across the country appears to short time in the long history of be a rising tide of recognition education, 2 the elementary schools are Drop in for a visit at any sec- an area where greater stress, ondary school in Northern Utah, should be given to counseliye be it in the Morgan, Davis, We- Services. ber, Ogden, Box Elder or an y It is in the lower grades ik other school district, and you'll many academic and ders find counselors at work as an problems” first pte and integral part of the school pro- where they can be-fandled best, gram, not aft: they, Nave become a From what sources and pres- built-in part_of a student’s way sures has the counseling office of life. “%« emerged? TYPICAL COUNSELOR MANY ASSIGNMENTS What does the typical assist- The counselor handles a wide ant counselor do? Is he a kind variety of assignments, many of truant officer, an assistant of which were those which an/assistant principal, a clerk, a extremely busy principal tried| psychologist, an administrator to care for, or which the teacher|of special tests, a specialist in attempted ‘to do as part of his| obtaining scholarships. an advis‘responsibilities to the student./er on personal problems, etc., hers are quite new, coming |etc.? from the growing complexity of} The proportion of each varies modern life, or quite directly|from district to district and even from: the requirements of gov-|from school to school within the ernment programs in the Sput-| district, and from day to day, nik era which insisted on the in- so that'a counselor may be any dividual attention counselors or all — and probably many could provide, more, A half-step toward the present Students drop in or are called day counselor was the dean of in to talk over problems rangmen orr the dean of girls in larg- ing from choice of a vocation to schools, busily oat to care class changes to personal and emotional problems, | ents. lone across the a Most counselors do not. consid- . COUNSELOR Mrs. Ashlaug Jackson checks test results with Wahlquist Junior High ninth grader Carol fo daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hanzlik of Plain City. : es can help discover emotional and able guidance service in brief, chology or the equivalent, and ||” mental problems which are de-| contacts i in connection with their | some teaching exp De ie veloping and get the students regular teaching work, but who, Under | the professional help they need.|May not have either the time certificati gencies are the, VALUABLE GUIDANCE or the nec training for more elimination ning Be ‘Most counselors feel they are! nounse- er themselves junior grade doing a job in partnership witht ‘have as psychiatris ut believe they! teachers, who oe ean 1 4do va qui required for such a requir | smanding work in- have work . 3 er S ee in Psy- the field of educat n.