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Redesigning School Counseling

School Counseling Benefits

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BENEFITS FOR STUDENTS

1. School counseling helps students master defined student standards in the area of academic development.

2. School counseling helps students master defined student standards in the area of career development.

3. School counseling helps students master defined student standards in the area of personal-social development.

4. School counseling helps students develop the self-knowledge required to help them make educational and career decisions.

5. School counseling helps students explore the world around them including labor market trends, career opportunities, and educational options.

6. School counseling helps students make long-term and short term plans for their future based on their educational and career goals.

7. School counseling helps students understand the relationship between their successes in school today, workforce readiness, and their future standard of living.

8. School counseling helps students successfully address personal and/or social issues that are interfering with learning.

BENEFITS FOR TEACHERS

1. School counseling helps teachers work with students who are motivated by their understanding of the relationship between school success, workforce readiness, and their future standard of living.

2. School counseling helps teachers work with students who show personal management, social skills, and learning strategies required for academic success.

3. School counseling helps teachers partner with parents and community members in conveying high expectations to students.

4. School counseling helps teachers understand real-world applications for academic content taught at school.

BENEFITS FOR ADMINISTRATORS

1. School counseling helps administrators have a common language for discussing students' educational, career and personal-social development; student assistance needs, and the school counseling program.

2. School counseling helps administrators evaluate students’ future plans, academic engagement, career interest and other choices foundational to academic success.

3. School counseling supports administrator’s efforts to:

· Engage students in learning

· Engage struggling students in extra help programs

· Increase attendance

· Decrease disruptive student behavior

· Parents who lack sound parenting skills

BENEFITS FOR PARENTS

1. School counseling helps parents assist their children with . . .

· Developing meaningful academic and career plans

· Day-to-day choices that support their future plans

· High school course selection decisions

· Postsecondary and financial aid decisions.

2. School counseling programs help parents provide accurate information for their children about careers, postsecondary options, financial aid, and academic choices in grades K-12 that impact students’ future.

3. School counseling programs help parents utilize school and community resources in guiding their children.

BENEFITS FOR THE LOCAL ECONOMY

1. School counseling programs help the local economy by encouraging students to . . .

· Take rigorous academic and technical courses that support their career interest.

· Enroll in courses and programs where they develop sound “habits of mind” such as the ability to gather and analyze data, apply concepts between disciplines, and make decisions.

· Establish sound “soft skills” such as responsibility (attendance, punctuality), leadership, team-work and the ability to work with authority.

2. School counseling programs help the local economy by enabling employers to:

· Convey the degree of academic rigor required for their future workforce to educators

· Convey to real-world applications for academic concepts to teachers

· Provide work-site learning opportunities for students such as internships and job shadowing

3. School counselors help the local economy by teaching students:

· Find careers that meet their career interests, aptitudes and preferences

· Determine what level of academic preparation is required by employers for jobs of interest

· Find potential jobs using electronic media

· Develop a career network

· Prepare a resume

· Interview

· Connect with job placement services in the community