• Helping develop positive attitudes among students towards self, family, and community.
• Counseling with students individually and in groups to understand and appreciate their unique qualities and to grow personally and socially.
• Supporting students by teaching skills for achieving success.
• Developing and delivering classroom guidance lessons that teach skills such as making healthy decisions, resolving conflicts, and respecting others.
• Assisting students to become invested in their school success by showing them how school performance relates to future opportunities.
• Working collaboratively with students, parents, and teachers to identify and remove barriers that may impede student achievement.
• Assisting students to develop personal awareness and explore personal goals.
• Helping develop communication and interpersonal skills needed to relate well to others.
• Providing a comprehensive and developmental guidance and counseling program that impacts all students K-12.
• Assisting students
To learn
To work
To live
In the 21st century.
IN OUR CHANGING WORLD:
• By age 21, today's young people have faced more decisions than their grandparents faced in a lifetime.
• One out of five families move each year.
• Everyone faces career decisions.
Young people face critical decisions about their academic success, their personal and social relationships and their future career.
Young people face greater risks than previous generations:
• Young people face increasing violence in our society and in their schools.
• Some young people face hopelessness that can lead to self-destructive behavior.
Children affected by these and other issues are not able to achieve at their full academic potential. The counselor's primary task is to help them become better learners by providing a comprehensive program that includes responsive services, individual planning, systems support and a guidance curriculum