School Counseling Program

Students have the opportunity to:

• Understand importance, influence, and maintenance of a positive self-concept.
• Learn and utilize social skills which assist in working positively with others and in making friends.
• Demonstrate integrity, dependability and responsibility.
• Recognize and develop talents, abilities, interests, skills, and motivation.
• Understand and practice a healthy lifestyle.
• Utilize planning techniques to identify and achieve specified goals.
• Learn and apply assertive decision-making process.
• Develop effective coping and problem-solving skills.
• Learn skills to balance life roles, expectations and activities.
• Identify personal values, attitudes, and beliefs.
• Gain respect for others' points of view and differences.
• Diversify interests to gain experience and express creativity.
• Use reflection and feedback for self-evaluation and growth.
• Understand how individual choices and actions affect self and others.
• Gain knowledge of learning styles to positively influence school performance.
• Express feelings in an appropriate manner.
• Recognize personal boundaries, rights, and privacy needs.

Students have the opportunity to:

• Communicate for understanding.
• Practice problem solving.
• Use reasoning and critical thinking.
• Access and use information.
• Expand and integrate content knowledge.
• Initiate own learning over a lifetime.
• Balance reason and emotion in making good decisions.
• Gain understanding and skill in drawing conclusions and consider consequences of those conclusions.
• Develop proficient skills in reading, writing, math, speaking, listening and using technology.
• Develop good work habits.
• Develop effective time and task management skills.
• Accept mistakes as essential to the learning process.
• Take pride in work and achievement.
• Develop strategies for dealing with stress.

Students have the opportunity to:

• Participate in the community to promote personal and public good.
• Understand and promote the democratic process.
• Learn to understand the balance between individual and group rights.
• Respect diversity and differences.
• Understand and support law and order in society.
• Become informed about social issues.
• Use community experiences to enhance the school experience.
• Understand that school success prepares for the transition from student to community member.
• Recognize that everyone has rights and responsibilities.
• Gain an understanding of appropriate and inappropriate physical contact.
• Prepare to be an employable, economical and productive citizen.

Students have the opportunity to:

• Understand and implement the career planning process.
• Know and understand benefits of educational achievement to career opportunities.
• Understand opportunities in non-traditional occupations.
• Obtain skills to understand, use, locate, evaluate, and interpret career information.
• Develop skills to enter and participate in further education and training.
• Know skills necessary to seek and obtain jobs.
• Develop strategies for dealing with change and transitions.
• Use an educational plan to support career goals and select course work that is related to career interests.
• Develop hobbies and vocational interests in order to balance work and leisure.
• Develop a positive attitude toward work and learning.
• Practice skills in applying technology, allocating resources, developing interpersonal skills, evaluating information and understanding systems.
• Gain understanding of the inter-relationship of life roles and the impact of work on individual, family, and society.
• Develop skills in writing a resume, filling out an application, and interviewing well.
• Experience work base learning, such as job shadows, internships, and apprenticeships.
• Know about the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees.