Guidance Curriculum: School Counselors provide guidance lessons to all grade levels. Pk-5th grade that facilitate student growth and development in the areas of educational, career, personal, and social development.
Responsive Services: School counselors intervene with or on behalf of those students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grades whose personal circumstances, concerns, or problems are threatening to interfere with or are interfering with their healthy development. This can take place in individual counseling, group counseling, or on as needed basis.
Individual Planning: School Counselors guide students to plan, monitor, and manage their own educational, career, personal and social development.
System Support: The system support component describes management activities which assure the delivery of high quality school counseling program, and service which indirectly benefit students by supporting other programs.
Skills Counselors Teach in Guidance Classes:
Intrapersonal Relationships
- Developing a positive self-concept
- Changing a particular behavior
- Developing ways to manage the demands of school, social activities, and family
- Making positive decisions and taking responsibility for actions
Interpersonal Relationships
- Evaluating how prejudices can be harmful
- Respecting and appreciating differences
- Learning how to effectively communicate with others
- Navigating relationships with friends, dating partners, family members, teachers, employers
Post-secondary Planning and Career Readiness
- Motivation to achieve in school
- Understanding how grades can affect post-secondary choices
- Selecting a career or college path
- Setting post-graduation goals
Personal Health and Safety
- Identifying resilience and positive coping skills
- Identifying assertiveness skills for personal protection
- Learning how to set personal boundaries
- Creating a personal wellness plan
