Classroom Guidance

Bi-weekly lessons are taught in the library. Lessons are designed to promote social competence and reduce children's social-emotional problems. The counseling curriculum teaches skills that promote healthy social-emotional development, empathy, impulse control, and problem solving.

Counseling guidance lessons ensure that students are meeting the following ASCA standards for academic, career, and personal/social development:

Academic Development

• Students will aquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span.
• Students will complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post-secondary options, including college.
• Students will understand the relationship of academics to the world of work and to life at home and in the community

Career Development

• Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.
• Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction.
• Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training and the world of work.

Personal/Social Development

• Students will acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.
• Students will make decisions, set goals and take necessary action to achieve goals.
• Students will understand safety and survival skills.