Week Six Lecture Notes

Darcy B. Tannehill, Ed.D.

Multiculturalism, Leadership, Teaching, and Counseling

• Multiculuralism– If projections continue, 47.2% of the U.S.

population will be comprised of minority populations

– Increased enrollment of international students– Greatest changes in community colleges and

public institutions– Student affairs plays a pivotal role

Multiculturalism

• Diversity vs. multiculturalism– Diversity is a structure that includes the presence

of individuals with different attributes such as culture, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.

– Multiculturalism is a state of being where a person feels comfortable and communicates well with people for any culture or situation

Multiculturalism

• Models of multicultural development– Intercultural sensitvity– Pedersen’s model– Multicultural Organizational Change

• Application of the models• Developing Competencies– Tools and techniques• Parker’s Action Plan• Power and Privilege Exercise

Leadership

• Conventional views of leadership• Alternative views of leadership– Servant– Transforming– Critical

• Paradigm of Leadership• Collaborative Leadership• Role of ethics in leadership

Leadership

• Competencies, Behaviors, and Beliefs– Self-development and change– Authentic relationships– Collaborative learning environments– Sharing power– Creative conflict– Shared Purposes– Asking critical questions– Developing a systemic view

Teaching

• Traditional teaching– Teacher as lecturer – Students as listener

• Good teaching– Links theory, teaching, and research to practice– Engages in critical thinking

• Learning as training– Administrative training– Professional-technical training– Mechanical-technical training– Interpersonal training

Teaching

• Essential skills and knowledge– Active, cooperative, and collaborative learning– Facilitating groups– Leading discussion and dialogue– Team building– Teaching multicultural populations– Training other trainers

Counseling and Helping Skills

• Components of the helping relationship– Genuineness– Unconditional positive regard– Empathy– Concretenes– Self-disclosure– Immediacy– confrontation

Counseling and Helping Skilles

• Model of the Helping Process– Phase I• Responding skills to communicate

– Phase II• Personalizing

– Phase III• Assisting to specify goals, make plans, and move to

action

Counseling and Helping Skills

• Developmental concerns– Normal issues and problems

• Remedial concerns– Opposite spectrum of development concerns

• Unclear concerns– Not easily classified

Counseling and Helping Skills

• Assess concerns• Helping intervention• Dealing with disturbed and disturbing students– Develop and intervention plan and team

• Assisting students in making life decisions• Minimum skills and knowledge required of

allied professional counselors• Ethical issues affecting helping relationships

References

• Komives, S.F. and Woodard, D. B., Jr. (Eds). (2004). Student Services: A Handbook for the profession. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.