AS A MIDDLE SCHOOL COUNSELOR, YOU WORK CLOSELY WITH YOUR PRINCIPAL...

19.As a middle school counselor, you work closely with your principal to meet the counseling needs

of the students. In your district, the position of Director of Counseling is new, so the Director is

initiating changes to bring your district’s program in alignment with the Texas Guide for

Comprehensive School Counseling program. The new Counseling Director has asked you to be a

part of the counseling leadership committee. The meeting conflicts with the period when you

relieve the principal in his office. Your best or first choice will be

A. ask your principal if it is okay to not relieve him once a week.

B. inform the director that you are pleased to be asked but decline the invitation.

C. invite the director to visit with you and the principal together to explain his vision and to explain

the direction for the district school counseling program.

D. tell the principal that the new Texas law prescribes that you must comply with the Director’s

invitation.