What is a School Counselors Role?

How Counselors Help...

A counselor works with staff, students, parents and the community to provide developmental assistance to students. They are dedicated to promoting a positive and safe school environment and improving the academic achievements of all students. Counselors help eliminate barriers to success by facilitating access to information, resources and support services appropriate to each student's needs.

Counselors assist students in planning, monitoring, and understanding their own educational and personal development. They play an important role in helping students explore academic options and transition from one grade level to the next.

They also provide individual and group counseling for students whose personal concerns or problems put their personal, social, career and/or educational development at risk.

Counseling Activities

Counselors direct many campus activities and help promote campus level and district activities including:

• • Cyber safety and drug free activities/programs/presentations

  • Elementary/Middle/HS Guidance

  • Middle School College & Career Planning

  • High School Orientation/4 Year Graduation Planning

  • Career and College Planning

  • Career and College Fairs

  • College Days and College Night parent and student events

  • PSAT/SAT/ACT Prep and Registration/SAT School Day/TSI 

  • College Financial Aid Workshops

  • Military Planning

  • Academic Support

  • Social/Emotional Support

  • Healthy Relationships/Dating Violence Prevention

  • Character Education

College and Career Planning

Counselors at the middle and high school levels play an important role in helping students with career exploration and planning for college and/or a career.

Counselors help students:

• identify and develop broad career options through flexible individual graduation plans

• re-evaluate and revise graduation plans based on their developing interests, talents, and aptitudes

• explore careers that are nontraditional for their gender

• acquire information about current and emerging careers, including employment data and projections

• prepare for high-skill, high-wage careers

• learn about financial aid opportunities for post-secondary education and training

The mission of the school counselor is to provide a proactive comprehensive, developmental counseling program addressing the academic, career, and personal/social development of all students.

Through a partnership with parents/guardians, staff, and community members, every student is supported and enabled to become a successful, productive citizen and lifelong learner in a diverse and ever changing world.