ACTION PLAN - University of Ulster

ALook-Out-for-Number-One.@ Some educators took traditional Judeo-Christian American
positions and taught AJust say no .@ Others began an approach which included
Ainculcation of values and morality and developed programs and curricula to help
students understand, internalize, and act on such traditional values as respect, caring,
friendship, and cooperation. Due to increasing problems with drug usage, disintegration
of the family, teen pregnancy, teen suicide, and other indication of social upheaval and
collapse, parents, educators, and community leaders once again began to look to schools
as a place for values and morals education. Kirshenbaum=s values clarification process
includes four elements or steps. They are a value-laden topic or moral issue, a question
or activity introduces by a teacher or group leader, an activity or discussion where the
teacher or group leader ensures that all viewpoints are treated with respect and the
encouragement that students employ an array of Avaluing processes@ or Avaluing skills@
while considering the topic.
What can we do?
Since time management and goal setting actually begin with values clarification, this is
probably an area which could be developed either as a workshop or for inclusion in
FRYS.
The www.mtsu.edu/~u101irm website has values clarification exercises such as
Conducting a Values Action, Conducting a Values Shuffle, A Person Should Be ....., and
many more that could be incorporated in the FRYS class (time permitting) or as a group
or workshop. At the website, values are defined, and steps to ethical decision making
model are given. These are brief and easy to understand and could easily be incorporated
at the beginning of the Time Management portion of FRYS.
Pre-Registration Procedures:
What are we doing?
Each summer, the CASS staff participates in both the PREP and POP Orientation
sessions by providing information about ULM, CASS, tutoring, and FRYS. Judging by
the response of students and parents, they do hear what we have to say and begin to
develop a relationship with the counselor to whom either they or their children will be
assigned. During this year’s PREP sessions, the CASS counselors were invited to
actively participate in the scheduling activities of PREP. During Late Registration, one
or two of the CASS staff speak at the PREP session.
CASS also participates in Browse on the Bayou and the Northern Lights Career Fair in
order to promote the CASS. CASS made a special effort at the Northern Lights Career
Fair to distribute information about the undeclared option and CASS services into the
hands on high school counselors.
Special admissions and concurrent students are LUIO and have the services of the CASS
office available to them.
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