Learning Goals for Guidance Class are taken from the American School Counseling Association National Standards. There are 3 domains that are addressed: Academic Development, Career Development, and Personal/Social. Standards are also placed into 3 subcategories: Learning Strategies, Self-Management Skills, and Social Skills.

Learning Goals for Guidance Class and the Counseling Program (Individual and Group Counseling) will come from the following standards:

• Demonstrate critical-thinking skills to make informed decisions

• Demonstrate ability to assume responsibility

• Use effective oral and written communication skills and listening skills

• Demonstrate creativity

• Demonstrate self-discipline and self-control

• Create positive and supportive relationships with other students

• Use time-management, organizational and study skills

• Demonstrate ability to work independently

• Create relationships with adults that support success

• Apply self-motivation and self-direction to learning

• Demonstrate ability to delay immediate gratification for long-term rewards

• Demonstrate empathy

• Apply media and technology skills

• Demonstrate perseverance to achieve long- and short-term goals

• Demonstrate ethical decision-making and social responsibility

• Set high standards of quality

• Demonstrate ability to overcome barriers to learning

• Use effective collaboration and cooperation skills

• Identify long- and short-term academic, career and social/emotional goals

• Demonstrate effective coping skills when faced with a problem

• Use leadership and teamwork skills to work effectively in diverse teams

• Actively engage in challenging coursework

• Demonstrate the ability to balance school, home and community activities

• Demonstrate advocacy skills and ability to assert self, when necessary

• Gather evidence and consider multiple perspectives to make informed decisions

• Demonstrate personal safety skills

• Demonstrate social maturity and behaviors appropriate to the situation and environment

• Participate in enrichment and extracurricular activities

• Demonstrate ability to manage transitions and ability to adapt to changing situations and responsibilities

Students will demonstrate these standards through classroom lessons, activities and/or individual/small-group counseling.