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Curriculum
Career Unit
Students will use Xello to explore their interests and skills and match those with potential career clusters and possible careers available. Students will then do a deeper dive and explore 2-3 careers that matched their interest or skills area and will explore and learn about post secondary options. As part of their Academic and Career Plan students will begin creating a storyboard of careers they are interested in, post-secondary options and set academic and career goals.
Human Responsibility Seminar
Students will learn factual information related to issues such as teenage sexuality and responsibility. the consequences of teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, contraception and birth control. The seminars are presented by local doctors and nurses from UW-Health.
8th Grade Planning Conferences
During the 2nd and 3rd trimesters students, counselors and their parents/guardians will be invited to meet in small groups and review their student's Academic and Career Plan and begin the process of graduating career and college ready. Parents/guardians and their child will discuss strengths, areas they need to work on, high school classes, and long term post high school goals. Students will review the Academic and Career Plan they have started in Xello and show their parents/guardians possible careers of interest, their storyboard, post- secondary options and goals they have set. Conferences will be led by school counselors while the students will have an active role in discussing their Academic and Career Plan with their parent/guardian.
Schools 2 Skills Tours
Based on a student's interest and skills they may be invited to sign up for a tour during the school year. The tour will visit a local business and post secondary schools to provide an opportunity to see what it would be like to work in a potential career or field. If a students goes on a S2S tour they will tour a local business and check out one of the post secondary options that fits with that career cluster best. Possible tours are Manufacturing, Health Care, Information Technology, Transportation, Business and Marketing, Agriculture and STEM. The tours are free of cost to the students.
Wisconsin Comprehensive School Counseling Model
The K-12 counseling department is committed to guiding students through academic, personal/social and career development in their pursuit for excellence and preparation for an ever-changing global society. We follow the Wisconsin Comprehensive School Counseling Model which includes a delivery system and is made up of the following components:
- School Counseling Curriculum
- Classroom activities
- Interdisciplinary curriculum development
- Group activities
- Parent Workshops
- Individual Student Planning
- Individual or small group academic evaluation
- Individual or small group academic advisement
- Student and Parent Educational/Career Planning Conferences
- Responsive Services
- Consultation
- Individual and small-group counseling
- Crisis counseling
- Referrals
- Peer facilitation
- System Support
- Professional development
- Consultation, collaboration and teaming
- Program management and operation
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