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New Mexico Comprehensive School Counseling Program Guide |
Delivery System
Individual Student Planning |
Curriculum |
Responsive Services |
System Support
Introduction
A comprehensive school counseling program (American School Counseling Association, 2002) reaches every student in the school and is implemented by a credentialed school counselor. The ASCA National Standards delineate measurable student competencies in three areas, or domains. These are comprehensive in scope in that they encompass the Academic Domain, the Career Domain and the Personal/Social Domain of the student. The standards may be selected based on local need. A comprehensive school counseling program is preventative in design and developmental in nature. It is an integral part of the total educational program and is conducted in collaboration with the school community.
The Delivery System outlines the plan for the delivery of the NM Comprehensive School Counseling Program to students. Within the delivery system are four components: Individual Student Planning, School Guidance Curriculum, Responsive Services, and System Support.
Individual Student Planning
The Individual Planning component of the New Mexico Comprehensive School Counseling Program requires school counselors to coordinate ongoing systemic activities. These ongoing activities are designed to assist the individual student in establishing, monitoring and completing personal goals as well as developing plans for their future. In this way, counselors help all students plan and manage their own learning and help them to gain competencies in the Academic Domain, the Career Domain and the Personal/ Social Domain. This service includes advisement, assessment, placement and follow-up.
Individual planning will be an ongoing process. It will be integrated into the core curriculum by instructing students on setting short and long term goals, social skills, study skills, organizational skills, problem solving skills and decision making skills, and career awareness and career development. Students can utilize the counselor during one-on-one or group sessions for monitoring the progress of their individual planning.
School counselors are responsible for ensuring that all students have an individual plan for success and for monitoring and assisting students in the progression of their plan. The counselor, student and parents should collaborate in the planning, progression and documentation of the student's individual plan.
During the high school years this plan should be reviewed annually.
Some examples of topics within this component are:
- Study skills
- Goal setting
- Behavior planning and monitoring
- Social skills
- Bully prevention
- Promotion and retention information
- Transitions from school to school, school to work or school to higher learning
- Summer school programs
- Four-year or six-year plans
- Test score review, interpretation and analysis
- Career awareness
- Interests inventories
- Test taking strategies
- Yearly course selection
- Financial aid
- Senior exit interviews and surveys
- College selection
- Job shadowing, internships, entrepreneurship opportunities
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