Bilingual School Counseling, Advanced Certificate
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Increase your employability with just three courses as you prepare for certification as a Bilingual School Counselor. Understand the skills and cultural context it takes to help today’s ethno-linguistically diverse students succeed.
Why Earn an Advanced Certificate in Bilingual School Counseling at New York Tech?
Enhance your career options and add bilingual certification to your master’s degree with our Advanced Certificate in Bilingual School Counseling.
Fill the employment gap in schools by gaining advanced knowledge and skills working with diverse students and their families. You’ll take advantage of small class sizes with expert faculty and individualized advisement to create your own unique career path.
This Advanced Certificate fits into your busy schedule, with flexible class schedules in blended or online formats and classes offered on weeknights and weekends.
Upon graduation, you’ll be eligible to take the New York State Bilingual Education Assessment (BEA) to receive initial NYSED certification as a Bilingual School Counselor. In this role, you’ll help bilingual students thrive within their schools, but also help their families bridge the gap between home life and the classroom.
Some credits/courses taken in the Bilingual School Counseling, Advanced Certificate program can be applied to the School Counseling, M.S.
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What You’ll Learn
Add bilingual certification to your master’s degree with our Advanced Certificate in Bilingual School Counseling. Develop your skills and knowledge in the cultural context necessary to work with today’s ethno-linguistically diverse students and families.
Customize Your Studies
Customize your studies at New York Tech with our specialized programs, designed to enhance your skills and impact in areas like student behavior management, school counseling, and mental health counseling.
School Counseling, M.S.
Our highly personalized program prepares you to be a responsive, effective advocate for the academic, social, and emotional success of pre-K, elementary, middle, and high school students. Complete the program in two years full-time or three years part-time, on campus and in the field under experienced counselors’ supervision.
Student Behavior Management, Advanced Certificate
Make the classroom a safer and more productive environment by understanding the challenges displayed by children and adolescents with academic, behavioral, and social problems.
Mental Health Counseling, Advanced Certificate
Make a difference helping those in need of therapy, counseling, career planning, and crisis intervention in a variety of settings, with a focus on social justice, cultural sensitivity, and technology.
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Career & Salary Outlook
Schools are expected to hire more counselors and advisors to respond to the developmental, academic, and career-planning needs of their students (BLS).
Job Growth
Employment of school and career counselors and advisors is projected to grow five percent from 2022 to 2032 (BLS).
About 26,600 openings for school and career counselors and advisors are projected each year, on average, over the next decade (BLS).
Employers & Internships
- Copiague Public School District
- Legacy High School
- New York City Department of Education
- Stuyvesant High School
- West Hempstead Union Free School District
- Westbury Union Free School District
Career Options
- P-12 school counselor
- Academic advisor
- Career counselor
- College advisor
- Educational/youth support organization staff
Salary Projections
The median annual salary for school and career counselors and advisors was $61,710 in May 2023, with the highest 10 percent earning more than $100,050 (BLS).
Program Details
Learn more about the Bilingual School Counseling, Advanced Certificate program, including admission requirements.
- Applicants must have earned a master’s degree in counseling or school counseling from a New York State registered program or CACREP accredited program and hold provisional/initial NYS school counselor certification or its equivalent from another state.
- The applicant’s graduate transcript in counseling must reflect coursework in professional issues and ethics, social and cultural diversity, human growth and development, career development, counseling and helping relationships, and group work.
- All applicants will meet with a School Counseling department representative to assess both motivation and minimum language proficiency. References may also be required.
Application Materials
- Completed application; $50 nonrefundable application fee
- Copies of undergraduate transcripts and graduate transcripts, if applicable, for all schools attended. Copies of teaching certificates you currently hold, if you are seeking New York State certification.
- International student requirements: English proficiency, I-20, and transcript evaluation
Deadlines
Applications are reviewed on a rolling admission basis, as long as space is available.
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