Grades 9-12 Guidance Benchmarks

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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The high school guidance program will help students continue enhance academic, social, behavioral, and career development. Guidance lessons will be delivered in group, individual, and classroom settings.
COURSE BENCHMARKS:
1. Apply principles to academic development.
2. Demonstrate appropriate personal/social development.
3. Develop strategies to make a successful transition from school to work.
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Benchmark 1: Apply principles to academic development.
Indicators:
1. Apply knowledge to learning styles.
2. Establish challenging academic goals in high school.
3. Develop and implement annual plan to maximize academic achievement.
4. Identify post-secondary options consistent with interests, values, achievements, and aptitudes.

Benchmark 2: Demonstrate appropriate personal/social development.
Indicators:
1. Develop a broad range of interests and abilities.
2. Become self-directed and independent learners.
3. Recognize, accept, and respect individual differences and ethic and cultural diversity.
4. Identify long-and short-terms goals and identify alternative ways of achieving goals.
5. Learn coping skills for managing life events.

Benchmark 3: Develop strategies to make a successful transition from school to work.
Indicators:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of the value of lifelong learning as essential to seeking, obtaining, and maintaining life goals.
2. Understand that school success is the preparation to make the transition from student to community member.
3. Learn about the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees.
4. Understand how school success and academic achievement enhance future occupational and leisure opportunities to achieve personal success and satisfaction.
5. Develop skills to locate, evaluate, and interpret career information in a variety of traditional and non-traditional occupations.
6. Understand the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, integrity, and effort in the workplace.
7. Apply academic and employment readiness skills in work-based learning situations such as internships, shadowing, and/or mentoring experiences.
8. Understand the importance of equity and access in career choice.