Dear Parents,
We want to extend a warm welcome to Tritt from the school counselors. Some of you may be first time parents in the Cobb County School system so we want to provide you with a brief overview of the counseling program. The elementary school counseling program is developmental and preventive in nature. We wear many different hats in this job and that is one of the things we love the most. Just as each student is unique, each day at Tritt brings new challenges and new successes to our job.
As counselors, we are mandated to teach lessons in three areas: Academic Development, Career, and Personal/Social. Each area has a national standard associated with it. We teach these lessons in each classroom on an every other week schedule. Kindergarten lessons are 20 minutes long and lessons in 1st-5th grades are 30 minutes in length. These lessons are designed to be informative and fun learning experiences for your child.
We also work with students in small group settings on topics such as changing families, self-control, friendship, anger management, and study skills/test-taking. Students are seen individually when referred by their teachers and/or their parents or when they ask to see us.
We are available for consultation with both teachers and parents. If you have a concern about your student’s academic or social progress/success, please feel free to call us. We can talk on the phone or set up a meeting here at school.
We also work with the teachers to help them understand and meet individual student needs. We send out classroom needs assessments in the fall and in the spring to ensure that we meet those needs in classroom guidance lessons, small groups, or individually.
If you have any questions or concerns during this year, please call us at 770-642-5633. We look forward to a happy and productive year working with you and your child.
Sincerely,
Judith Carter, Ed.S. (Counselor k,2,4)
Debbie Edwards, Ed.S. (Counselor 1,3,5)