What are the benefits for your student?

• Focuses on all students
• Enhances students’ academic performance
• Centers on students’ needs
• Seeks students’ input
• Encourages more interaction among students
• Provides a developmental and preventative focus
• Promotes knowledge and assistance in career exploration and development
• Enhances life coping skills
• Helps students feel connected to school
• Enhances students’ personal/social development
• Develops decision-making skills
• Increases knowledge of self and others
• Broadens knowledge of our changing work world
• Increases opportunities for school counselor-student interaction
• Develops a system of long-range planning for students

The following video explains the role of the school counselor: