1) Think back to your high school days. Were you placed in a particular academic track? What type of academic program did you follow? What academic program did your friends follow? Did you notice differences in the various plans of study among students in your school? How did tracking affect your expectations of yourself and of your friends?

2)Prevention is a critical component of every student's education. Proactive approaches to student issues can help to alleviate future pitfalls.

Consider this scenario: You are concerned about the seniors in your caseload making a good transition to college life. You know that many students have difficulty adjusting the first year and that you have heard that the national dropout rate for first-year college students is approximately 30%. Students are beginning to receive their letters of acceptance and seem very excited about the independence that comes with leaving high school. There are still three months left before they graduate.

(a) How can counseling strategies address these issues?

(b) How will you use the dimensions of counselingclassroom guidance, group counseling, and individual counselingin your school setting? What are the issues that contribute to tough transitions to post-secondary education for students?

3)Apply:

1. Take the Implicit Association Test (IAT) at implicit.harvard.edu. Feel free to go in through the anonymous "guest" option rather than registering yourself. Choose an IAT that relates to a cause close to your heart. Explain why you chose this IAT.

2. What did you learn about your own unconscious biases? Where might these biases show up in your life? Consider your personal network, your behavior on social media, and your consumption of books, movies, TV shows, and podcasts. Consider how you interact with others at work, school or home, in a crowded place, and at a meeting or event. Where do you see your unconscious biases potentially leaking into your actions?

4) Interview Questions: Read:Sample Interview Questions - American School Counselor Association (ASCA) Choose ten questions and write down prepared responses

5) Ask a friend or family member who has not read this book to watch the following selective attention test:The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us. What was the outcome? How can this type of test be used to help us understand how we process information?

2. How does your school respond to the diverse needs of students in your community? What aspects of diversity are the most important to address?

6) Complete the sentence "I am. . . " with as many descriptors as you can in sixty seconds. Look at your list and write about how you described your own identity.