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Course Title | Relationships and Personal Safety: A Focus on Consent |
Course Number | ISCA 306 |
Course Overview | The aim of this course is to engage educators and counselors in conversations about consent, boundaries, coercion, sharing nudes, healthy relationships, slut shaming, sexual harassment and sexual assault so that they feel comfortable having these conversations with their students, administrators, faculty and parents. Participants will leave with videos and tools that they can use to create a lesson and have individual conversations with their students.
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Social Emotional Domain Standard A: Students will demonstrate the dispositions, knowledge, and skills to develop and maintain positive relationships with self and others. Standard C: Students will demonstrate personal safety skills Global Perspective & Identity Development Domain Standard A: Students will demonstrate the dispositions, knowledge, and skills needed in order to be culturally competent global citizens. Standard B: Students will examine the complexity of identity development and the impact identity has on relationships with others. Standard C: Students will advocate for a world where all identities are affirmed and validated |
B-SS 3. Provide short-term counseling in small-group and individual settings A.4. Academic, Career and Social/Emotional Planning d. Provide opportunities for all students to develop a positive attitude toward learning, effective learning strategies, self management and social skills and an understanding that lifelong learning is part of long-term career success. A.7. Group Work Facilitate short-term groups to address students’ academic achievement, postsecondary and career exploration, and social/emotional well-being.
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Intended Audience | This course is suited to participants who are new to international school counseling as well as to those who have years of experience.
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Essential Questions | How will I use the knowledge I acquired in these workshops to create lessons for my community? How can conversations about consent and boundaries with my students affect how my students interact with each inside and outside of school? |
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Knowledge | Skills |
Participants will have knowledge about: | Participants will be able to: |
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About the Facilitator |
Cheryl-Ann has facilitated workshops and presented at conferences for AIELOC, AMISA, ISS and CIS. Cheryl-Ann started her consultancy business Weekes Enterprise, LLC in February 2022 to facilitate workshops for students, educators, parents and community organizations around the topics of consent, boundaries, mental health, psychological safety and inclusive counseling. |
Cheryl-Ann Weekes (M.Ed. in Counselor Education) has worked in the U.S. since 1997 and in international schools for eleven years with experience in high school counseling in Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Thailand, Egypt and the Ivory Coast. Cheryl-Ann has extensive experience working as a school counselor with expertise in mental health and social emotional counseling, college counseling, advisory planning and academic counseling. Dates and times of offerings | May 14 and 17, 2024 - 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM GMT |
Contact hours | 6-hour course |
Time commitment between sessions | 30 minutes between 2 sessions to read two articles |
Required Resource(s) |
Pre Course Work: Watch conference presentation video: The “What” and “Why” of Consent and its Importance for Our Schools” so you know the parameters of consent and connections to boundaries, the how of flirting and sharing nudes. These topics will be mentioned at the beginning of the workshop.
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References | American School Counselor Association (2019). ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards & Competencies. Alexandria, VA: Author. American School Counselor Association (2022). ASCA Ethical Standards for Counselors. Alexandria, VA: Author.
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