Supporting LGBTQ Students: From Good Intentions to Action
Presenter Name(s)
Ken Jackson
Target Audience
Secondary
Independent
Counselor Educator, Supervisor
Abstract
When it comes to supporting LGBTQ students, counselors often have good intentions, but challenges translating into meaningful action. They often do not know what to do when situations arise or they are consulted. Participants will examine an LGBTQ Student Action Decision Making Model. They will then review a sample professional development created for middle school teachers to support a transgender student. Participants will then look a real life scenarios and apply the decision making model.
Description
The session will cover three areas:
1. LGBTQ Student Action Decision Making Model- They will look at an approach that I have used for 19 years when consulted about LGBTQ issues in schools. It covers equality, equivalence, and equity.
2. Particpants will review a real professional development given to middle school teachers who were seeking ways to support a transgender student in class. The focus on this is both practical applications for teachers and a model counselors can use when asked to created a professional development.
3. Scenario discussion- Particpants will be grouped and given one of ten real life scenarios. They will then apply the decision making model to the scenario. All of the cases are adapted from real events that have occured in schools.