What can your School Counselor do for you?

• Provide individual planning sessions and classroom guidance lessons to students in the areas of academic planning and success, career awareness and social/emotional development in accordance with planned objectives for grade level.

• Conduct structured, goal-oriented counseling sessions in systematic response to identified needs of groups of children. Themes include: academic skill building, social skill development, career awareness, conflict resolution, family issues, making healthy choices, etc.

• Provide information and skills to parents, school staff, administration and the community to assist them in helping students in academic, career and personal/social development.

• Take a leadership role in the infusion of counseling content into the curriculum, staff development and parent education programs.

• Assist parents in addressing school related problems and issues. Refer students and their parents, as needed, to appropriate specialists, special programs and/or outside agencies.

• Inform students and their parents as to pertinent test results and their implications for educational and career planning.

• Promote the liaison and coordination of school activities and resources and communicate between and among home, school, community agencies and business and industry.

• Plan and coordinate programs such as career and college fairs, scholarships, and other extensions of the counseling curriculum.

• Design, deliver, evaluate and revise a planned sequential and developmentally appropriate school counseling curriculum to include lessons in academic success, career awareness and planning and personal/social growth and understanding.

• Systematically develop and evaluate planning for high school and post high school on an annual basis through individual planning which results in a written career/educational plan for each student.

• Plan, implement, maintain and evaluate the systems necessary for the support, maintenance and improvement of the school counseling program.

• Articulate the school counseling program to students, parents, teachers staff and community.