Individual guidance- Accurately and without bias guides individuals to plan, monitor, and manage the student’s own educational development including information regarding post-secondary opportunities, career development, and personal and social development
Academic Domain
Helping students meet the following ASCA Standards:
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Students will acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span.
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Students will complete school with the academic prep. essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post-secondary options, including college.
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Students will understand the relationship of academics to the world of work and to life at home and in the community.
Career Domain
Helping students meet the following ASCA Standards:
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Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.
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Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction.
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Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training and the world of work.
Personal / Social Domain
Helping students meet the following ASCA Standards:
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Students will acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.
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Students will make decisions, set goals and take necessary action to achieve goals.
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Students will understand safety and survival skills.
Individual Planning
The purpose of the individual planning system is to guide all students as they plan, monitor, and manage their own educational, career, and personal-social development. Schools can systematically use a variety of resources-staff, information, and activities-and to focus resources toward the students and to assist individual students to develop and implement personalized plans.
Through the individual planning system, students can:
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Set challenging educational, career, and personal-social goals that are based on self-knowledge and information about school, the world of work, and their society;
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Make plans for achieving short-, intermediate-, and long-term goals;
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Analyze how their strengths and weaknesses enhance or hinder the achievement of their goals;
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Assess their current progress toward their goals; and
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Make decisions that reflect their plans. As part of the developmental guidance program, the individual planning system includes:
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Age-appropriate, objective-based activities;
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Relevant, accurate, and unbiased information; and
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Coordinated advisement procedures to facilitate appropriate placement decisions by students and their parents. (Individual meetings, analyzing abilities, interests and/or skills, advising – personal/social, career, post-secondary, test taking job shadowing).
@Elementary School Counseling
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT
