My Bio: David Marshall Beachboard
My name is David Marshall Beachboard and I am a graduate student at Liberty University. I am pursuing my school counseling degree and entering my last semester. I have my Bachelors degree in Psychology from Piedmont University where I was also a baseball player for 4 years. I am born and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. I love sports and spending time with my family, I also look forward to starting my career and helping students be successful.

Resume & CV: David Marshall Beachboard

 

Reflective Journal: David Marshall Beachboard
251210070459_Worldview_Reflective_Essay_1_2_.docx (.docx) 0.01mb

Reflective Journal: David Marshall Beachboard
251210071816_Professional_Growth_Essay.docx (.docx) 0.01mb

Competency Assessments: David Marshall Beachboard
This attachment shows various trainings I have completed during my time in the Liberty University counseling program. These certifications show my foundational knowledge and willingness to meet ethical and legal standards in school counseling. By having trainings and being prepared for things I may face within the school system, I am able to advocate for others and effectively use these programs or the knowledge I have gained to help others.  251210084306_Certifications_for_Counseling.docx (.docx) 0.14mb

Competency Assessments: David Marshall Beachboard
This file contains a form that I filled out in order to make sure I followed protocol with our school system when helping our school counselor with a suicide assessment. In this form I show one of the necessary interventions a school counselor must do in order to prevent suicide. By completing this form and following the steps in the protocol, I was able to make sure this student received the right services for them. After completion of this form I feel as though preventative measures helped the long term success and wellness of this student. Suicide Assessment (.pdf) 0.15mb

Competency Assessments: David Marshall Beachboard

This attachment is based on a completed project in which I had to choose a culture and identify the characteristics, the values and how they differ from my own culture. Though the culture I discuss was the elderly population, it gave me tools in working with families of my students to better understand the view of grandparents or elderly people having to take care of children. In this assignment, I learned about the importance of different cultures during initial investigation when trying to choose a culture. When deep diving into this culture I learned how important a cultures values can affect students and families and how as a counselor I must be informed of those values because it will greatly benefit my students. Understanding someone's culture can help build a relationship and better support the things that a student may value. 

Cultural Immersion (.docx) 1.61mb

Competency Assessments: David Marshall Beachboard
This document shows my ability to use relevant data to come up with a plan for a student and to implement that plan over a period of time. In this document, I set up a plan to work with this student based on relevant ideas by learning about the student and deciding what techniques would benefit them best. Being able to assess this student helped to provide the necessary resources in which the student could use to enhance them in areas socially, emotionally and mentally after implementing this plan. By being able to layout a plan and identify the needs of this student it has improved my ability as a counselor to review data and use it to my advantage by finding techniques that work and ones that do not. As a counselor projects like this one have shown me the importance of knowing my own skills and being able to learn about myself and where I also can improve. 251210073417_annotated_Practicum_20Benchmark_20Case_20Conceptualization_20_26_20School_20Counseling_20Services_20Treatment_20Plan_20DMB.docx_1_.pdf (.docx_1_) 0.19mb

Competency Assessments: David Marshall Beachboard
The assignment attached here is a program of guidance lessons based around social, emotional, and mental well being. These lessons were presented to 7th and 8th grade students to learn about being a "well-balanced" student. By using relevant data and research I used Character Strong as a guide to develop relevant lessons that would be presented to different classes in order to track the effects on attendance and discipline referrals. By being able to implement this program, I was able to evaluate this program and see what worked as well as what did not to hopefully implement it in the future with even better success.  Culminating Project Lessons (.pptx) 1.27mb

Competency Assessments: David Marshall Beachboard
This attachment is a lesson given to students entering high school that helped set a four year plan for them. It helped these students to be able to visualize and layout the next four years of their lives based on their current interest and the requirements they would need to complete. By helping these students visualize their high school careers, it helped build positivity and create goals for these students in which they could work towards during this time. This was developed to inform these students about the state requirements and how to get to graduation, as well as help relieve some tensions on selecting classes and things they are interested in. By giving this presentation, students were more aware of what they needed to take to graduate and could discover the different pathways they could take to reach their goals. 251210075014_annotated_High_20School_204_Year_20Planning.pptx.pdf (.pptx) 0.36mb

Competency Assessments: David Marshall Beachboard
Working with many partners and stakeholders, I created a resource guide for the county that was given to students and families. In working with all these various people, the importance of having resources for students became very evident to me. Being able to communicate with so many organizations, families, teachers and staff members, I was able to build great connections. When I was able to collaborate with others, it was a great feeling seeing how we all work together to help support our students and communities. Resource Guide (.docx) 4.36mb

Competency Assessments: David Marshall Beachboard
In this PowerPoint, I involved multiple stakeholders to address issues within the school and after receiving feedback I led a series of small groups on conflict management. This PowerPoint shows the process of creating the needs assessment, the data I looked to gain from it, the implementation and evaluation of this program that was created by me to benefit our school. This was an educational program for the students that also helped teachers learn about conflict management and teach strategies for dealing with conflict.  251210020855_Small_Group_Conflict_Management.pptx (.pptx) 1.10mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
260427082951_Degree_Completion_Plan.pdf (.pdf) 0.58mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
This course helped to define the ethical concerns a school counselor may face. By learning the laws and the ethical concerns in this course, the counselor can feel better equipped moving into their role within the school.

AIA Standard: Foundations  260427090621_COSC_501_Essays_Benchmarks.pdf (.pdf) 0.23mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
Learning about how the human body grows and develops equips the counselor with knowledge on different developmental stages that students go through. This course helps a counselor be able to identify the problems that students face in different life stages and the level of understanding or thinking they may have within these stages.

AIA Standard: Academic Development  260427085507_COUC_502_Essays_Benchmarks_1_.pdf (.pdf) 0.21mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
Understanding cultural differences can be so important in school counseling. In this course, we learned about different cultures and did a deep dive outside of our culture. To see how others view the world and the beliefs they have in other cultures, it helps the counselor be more equipped to work with a variety of students that are outside their own culture.

AIA Standard: Diversity and Advocacy 260427091511_COUC_504_Benchmark_Essays.pdf (.pdf) 0.40mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
Learning techniques that counselors use helps to polish the skills a person has and teaches new skills to help someone entering the school counseling world. When learning techniques, it is important to practice them and see the benefits of these skills in action. In this course you practice learning techniques that translate to the workforce on day one.

AIA Standard: Counseling Prevention and Intervention 260427092729_COSC_505_Benchmarks.pdf (.pdf) 0.64mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
In structured groups the class worked on assignments together in order to learn how to successfully run a group session. We looked at incident and used critical thinking and review with the class in order to decide what we would do in different scenarios and talked as a group about how in counseling different things arise and we must be prepared to address these incidents and understand what should be done.

AIA Standard: Counseling Prevention and Intervention  260511123119_COSC_512_Benchmarks.pdf (.pdf) 0.08mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
In this course, we looked at different programs an learned how to evaluate them by implementing our on that we can use in the school. Through these benchmarks we evaluated these programs and learned how doing evaluation is so important to ensure that the programs we put in place are correct and that they are actually working. This shows the counselor how to efficiently evaluate the programs they are using.

AIA Standard: Research and Evaluation 260427093647_COSC_515_Benchmarks.pdf (.pdf) 1.14mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
Deciding your own philosophy toward education and learning the values that one has around it can be pivotal in counseling. Having a good foundation in education is important to the school counselor and in this course I worked on the duty of the school system to educate our youth.

AIA Standard: Leadership  260511124733_Educational_Philosophy_Assignment.pdf (.pdf) 0.09mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
This assignment helped to break down the responsibilities of a school counselor as well as apply them to developmental stages of students. In this benchmark, we worked through crisis planning, suicide prevention and understanding how developmental stages affect the students we are working with.

AIA Standard: Counseling Intervention and Prevention 260512071704_Benchmark_Assignment_1_.pdf (.pdf) 0.13mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
In this benchmark, we looked at programs and reviewing them to determine their validity and reliability. This was important as a counselor to learn so that when using various test, you can understand if a test is reliable to give you the information your looking for. I tested the Values and Motives Questions (VMQ) test. This was used to help me learn how to determine different variables in a test and see if the test was truly a good source when trying to gain information about my students.

AIA Standard: Assessment 260512072731_Benchmark_Reliability_and_Validity_Final.docx (.docx) 0.02mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
Building this collaborative model was important to see all the different pieces of school counseling come together. Learning about the importance of being a "complete" school counselor was a great experience and this benchmark helped to highlight the different pieces to ensuring the counselor is working with all the stakeholders and making sure they are following guidelines.

AIA Standard: Diversity and Advocacy 260512073825_Benchmark_Collaborative_Model.pdf (.pdf) 2.07mb

Courses Taken: David Marshall Beachboard
Learning how to develop school counseling programs, to run them in the school and then to evaluate them is a crucial skill for school counselors. Each school counselor can use the data they gain from these programs to identify how they can help out their students and see what the population they work with really needs. This benchmark helped to bring together a brochure that produced the beliefs and programs that were in place at the school I was working for. This was helpful to students to identify how counselors and the school were there to support them.

AIA Standard: Collaboration and Consultation 260512075750_Benchmark_School_Counseling_Brochure_AND_Data_Assignment_.docx (.docx) 17.97mb

Projects: David Marshall Beachboard
For this group, 4 students from 15 to 18 years old were focusing on conflict management. The main goal was to teach skills that would help these students deal with conflict between peers as well as teachers. The focus of this group was to help students learn how to take a deep breathe, to take 5 minute breaks, to find a calm space to problem solve, and to resolve problems. By teaching these students these skills, it would help them be more productive inside and outside of the classroom and learn how to avoid conflict that was interfering with their learning.  260427075815_Small_Group_Conflict_Management.pptx (.pptx) 1.10mb

Projects: David Marshall Beachboard
In this classroom guidance lesson I worked with 7th and 8th grade students to identify being a healthy student. This lesson was designed to teach these students about how being a complete student is physical, emotional, and mental health. Having students look at how they can make sure they have healthy habits, knowing where to go for help, and creating a healthy atmosphere, this lesson was geared to set all students up for success in learning about what they need. 260427080225_Internship_I_Culminating_Project.pdf (.pdf) 0.56mb

Projects: David Marshall Beachboard
This was a program designed for a group of 3rd grade boys. It was video game themed and worked on friendship building as well as dealing with conflict. These boys worked in teams to "level up" throughout this program and to learn skills that would help them deal with conflicts both inside and outside of the classroom. 260511115904_Small_Group_Conflict_Resolution_Regulation.pdf (.pdf) 0.95mb

Internships: David Marshall Beachboard

Prompt #1:

In your own words, summarize how serving in both elementary and secondary schools has contributed to your understanding of the diverse developmental needs of K-12 students, including exceptionalities? What have you learned about how K-12 students differ in their development and approaches to learning?  How have you created opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners? 

Working in both an elementary as well as a secondary placement has expanded my knowledge on how to help students at all stages of life. Learning how students with exceptionalities present different things at different stages has helped me be prepared at any level to help students. When working with the K-5 student population I was unsure how they learn and how they work. Shortly after spending time with them, they are so hands on and so exciting to work with. They learn through so much modeling and playing that helps to foster a positive learning environment for them. The older students in the secondary setting have a much different approach, working with them through stages of development and the struggles they face is much deeper and emotionally it was vital I learn the signs to look for. As a counselor I looked to be creative for all my students that needed support outside the classroom, by creating extra time for small groups, learning how they learn best and helping to build positive relationships, I created opportunity for students that was outside the normal learning environment to help them. Understanding this population of students and how to support them in 504 and IEP plans is important as a counselor to create these opportunities that give all populations the same representation and support. 

Prompt #2: – The Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling (ASERVIC) states, “The professional counselor recognizes that the client’s beliefs (or absences of beliefs) about spirituality and/or religion are central to his or her worldview and can influence psychosocial functioning.” How have your field experiences contributed to your understanding of the importance of including K-12 students’ religious and spiritual supports, especially if religion and spirituality are valued by the K-12 student?

Learning about students religious and spiritual beliefs can show a lot about why the student functions they way they do. Though as the counselor in a public school you cant talk about religion with your students, you can see how important it can be within that students life. It often serves as a guide for students and can help the counselor understand what the values the student and the family may have. Working in multiple settings throughout this program, religion can play a role at all ages and no matter the age the worldview helps the counselor to see the rationale on decision making at all stages of development. 

Prompt #3 – How have your field experiences contributed to your understanding of the importance of including the K-12 student's family, community, and culture as a source of support? 

Having the students family involved is a pivotal piece to helping any student. No matter the stage of development, the presenting issues or the solution you view as the counselor, it is so important to support the student through involvement with all the people in their lives. When a student has family involvement, I have seen in my experiences how much that can mean to supporting the student. In order to make students feel safe and supported, you should look to always involve the people that have the most influence on that students life.

Prompt #4 – How has your field experience strengthened your professional identity as a school counselor? What aspects of the school counselor's role, scope of practice, and the referral process have you learned from collaboration and consultation?

This field experience has helped me understand my strengths and weaknesses as a school counselor. By being placed in schools of different ages, it has helped me learn the skills I need as a counselor for students of all ages. This experience helped me grow and learn from other student service staff around me that helped me to see others views and to learn the true job that a school counselor is expected to do. Learning how many people are involved in a students life, and just how much a difference we can make was such an eye opening experience that I learned in this field experience. Being placed in the school that was both elementary and secondary, I learned the skills that I need to be able to support these students no matter my placement and feel more well rounded as a counselor than before. Working with different counselors taught me different things that I will take from all them to ensure I am using all the tools I have been provided to do my ultimate job and support my students. 

Exam History: David Marshall Beachboard
260424122855_Praxis_ScoreReport.pdf (.pdf) 0.33mb

Licenses & Certifications: David Marshall Beachboard
260515125550_Field_Experience_Summary_Final.pdf (.pdf) 0.27mb

Licenses & Certifications: David Marshall Beachboard
260521103155_Mental_Health_Specialist_Training_Mental_Health_Specialist_Certificate.pdf (.pdf) 0.08mb

Licenses & Certifications: David Marshall Beachboard
260519123835_Psychological_First_Aid_28PFA_29_Online_Certificate.pdf (.pdf) 0.55mb

Licenses & Certifications: David Marshall Beachboard
260519123606_Dyslexia_Training_Certification_1_.pdf (.pdf) 0.05mb

Licenses & Certifications: David Marshall Beachboard
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Licenses & Certifications: David Marshall Beachboard
260519122806_Supporting_Caregivers_of_Youth_with_Substance_Use_Problems_Certificate.pdf (.pdf) 1.72mb

Licenses & Certifications: David Marshall Beachboard
260519122712_Schools_and_Grief_Helping_Students_Cope_with_Death_Certificate.pdf (.pdf) 1.72mb

Licenses & Certifications: David Marshall Beachboard
260519122359_David_Beachboard_Regulations_Governing_the_Use_of_Restraint_and_Seclusion_in_Elementary_and_Secondary_Schools_in_Virginia_Modules_Quiz_Certificate_CIEES.pdf (.pdf) 0.01mb