I have one more week before I have to report to work. When I went to the school this summer, the counseling suite was getting new carpets, so I wasn’t able to see my office. I also don’t know what students I’ll be working with yet. I haven’t been able to do all the things I wanted to do the last couple of weeks (review transcripts and schedules, create spreadsheets to keep track of graduation requirements for seniors, decorate my office, create a “where is the counselor” sign, etc.). I’ll probably go to the school next week to look at my office.
As a result of being bored and searching the web, I finally found PINTEREST (my new obsession). There are a lot of great ideas there. Some were new ideas and some were ideas I’d seen before but with a twist. I will be using several ideas this year—modified for high school of course J.
Some of my favorite ideas are:
· The faculty/staff appreciation gifts. I give beginning of the year and NSCW “gifts” to the counseling department and the entire faculty/staff.
· The “Where is the Counselor?” signs. The one I used was not as creative as the ones on Pinterest and counseling blogs.
· The confidentially poster from (http://www.schcounselor.com/). I ordered one myself.
· Custom binder clips. I love that I can make my own with Microsoft work and Modge Podge. Made some yesterday and they turned out great! I will be making more.
· Printing on post-its. Never thought of doing that. I am definitely going to have to try it.
· The master teacher binder. I always start the year off with a binder, but never finish the year with it. Thanks to the ideas from Pinterest, I have a better idea of how to organize it so I will use it all year long.
I’m going to try to add all the Pinterest ideas I made on another post. Hope it works
