The School Counseling Core Curriculum is a plan of structured lessons or activities designed to build students’ knowledge and skills as appropriate on the developmental continuum. This may be done through classroom instruction, group activities, and parent workshops and instruction.
Individual Student Planning is when a school counselor assists students individually in understanding, monitoring and managing their development, and coordinates activities designed to help students with their goals and plans.
Responsive Services or interventions are provided by the school counselors to meet students’ immediate needs and concerns or to respond to specific problems that affect social/emotional or academic development. This includes crisis response, consulting with and referring to outside resources, etc.
System Support includes those management activities needed to assure the implementation and ongoing evaluation of a high quality, developmental, comprehensive school counseling program. This includes professional development, collaboration, and data analysis.
Elementary school years are the entry level for students to participate in the school counseling program. Learning is focused on :
Increasing self-awareness
Increasing social skills
Developing self-efficacy