Students will make appointments with their Guidance Counselors to discuss and deal with matters concerning their academic program, career plans and personal problems.
Our counselors are trained to help you with your educational and personal welfare. You should avail yourselves of their assistance. Counselors will routinely call students in for individual conferences and will meet with them in large and small groups throughout the year for purposes of testing and career education.
To make an appointment with your counselor, come to the Guidance Office before school, after school, during lunch, and study halls to fill out a request for an appointment.
Within two days, your counselor will send a pass to you via your homeroom teacher. You should show the pass to your teacher whose class you are scheduled for at the assigned time, then immediately report to the Guidance Office.
If you cannot keep the appointed time, you must go to the Guidance Office to inform your counselor and to have the appointment re-scheduled.
The counselors are specially trained to assist students to realize their full potential. Depending on needs, the individual counselor can help students:
. Assess strengths and limitations,
. Make decisions about life,
. Develop positive attitudes,
. Choose the appropriate academic courses,
. Solve personal problems,
. Discover talents and abilities,
. Find a job,
. Design an educational plan,
. Decide on a career path,
. Increase self-understanding, and
. Coordinate when applicable with outside social service agencies
and institutions.
Counselors will routinely and for specific purposes call students to their offices for conferences. Students are encouraged to make appointments with their counselors if they have questions or problems or wish to discuss career plans. Each student will be seen by his/her counselor a minimum of one time per year.
Appointments for college visits or to meet with college representatives at the school must be completed and submitted 3 days prior to the visit or meeting. Students may be limited to the number of college visits they may attend, so they should choose wisely.