Preparing School Counseling Trainees in Professional Legislative Advocacy
Professional legislative advocacy is a pathway to improve the field of education as it may lead to policy changes that impact schools and the profession directly. Higher education educators have the opportunity to infuse in their students the skills and confidence to become advocates for their resp...
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Indiana University Office of Scholarly Publishing
2023-04-01
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Professional legislative advocacy is a pathway to improve the field of education as it may lead to policy changes that impact schools and the profession directly. Higher education educators have the opportunity to infuse in their students the skills and confidence to become advocates for their respective disciplines. In this study on an approach to teaching, we developed a training intervention to teach and build school counseling trainees' confidence for engaging in professional legislative advocacy and evaluated its effectiveness in an initial study. Compared to pretest scores, the participants had significant gains in knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to professional legislative advocacy after the training intervention. Their posttest scores were also higher than a sample of school counselor trainees who did not participate in the training. We discuss the implications of these findings and suggested research directions.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c3eac1b9d45f44368e0ce6e06d34f0662023-04-16T02:36:53ZengIndiana University Office of Scholarly PublishingJournal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning1527-93162023-04-01231Preparing School Counseling Trainees in Professional Legislative AdvocacyPatrick Mullen0Adrienne BackerJennifer NilesNancy ChaeWilliam & Mary Professional legislative advocacy is a pathway to improve the field of education as it may lead to policy changes that impact schools and the profession directly. Higher education educators have the opportunity to infuse in their students the skills and confidence to become advocates for their respective disciplines. In this study on an approach to teaching, we developed a training intervention to teach and build school counseling trainees' confidence for engaging in professional legislative advocacy and evaluated its effectiveness in an initial study. Compared to pretest scores, the participants had significant gains in knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to professional legislative advocacy after the training intervention. Their posttest scores were also higher than a sample of school counselor trainees who did not participate in the training. We discuss the implications of these findings and suggested research directions. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/33257professional legislative advocacyschool counselor traineesprofessional identityschool counseling |
| spellingShingle | Patrick Mullen Adrienne Backer Jennifer Niles Nancy Chae Preparing School Counseling Trainees in Professional Legislative Advocacy Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning professional legislative advocacy school counselor trainees professional identity school counseling |
| title | Preparing School Counseling Trainees in Professional Legislative Advocacy |
| title_full | Preparing School Counseling Trainees in Professional Legislative Advocacy |
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| title_short | Preparing School Counseling Trainees in Professional Legislative Advocacy |
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| url | https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/33257 |
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