Research demonstrates that a comprehensive, developmental approach to school counseling is associated with gains in academic achievement. As a result, Ideal Elementary has a highly-trained full-time guidance counselor as part of our core instructional and leadership team.
Ideal Elementary’s school counseling programs are comprehensive, collaborative, and developmental. They serve all students and families, encourage and promote student achievement, offer an assortment of services, and provide one-to-one support when needed.
Our Ideal Elementary Guidance Counseling Programs:
- Implement classroom guidance and small groups targeting student mastery of academic/educational competencies.
- Facilitate cross- and same-age peer tutoring for students needing a extra academic support, and
- Conduct workshops and in-services for parents, teachers, and staff on ways to foster student learning.
Elementary age students benefit from Ideal’s ”how to get ahead in school” guidance curriculum, which includes such topics as listening, study, and test-taking skills, building positive school attitudes and behaviors, effective writing and reading skills, and homework completion skills.
Ideal Elementary’s Students Benefit in a Variety of Ways
- Students acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that contribute to effective learning at Ideal Elementary and beyond.
- Students at Ideal Elementary are already preparing academically to go to college and have a fulfilling and well-paying career.
- Students understand the relationship of academics to the world of work and to life at home and in the community. This understanding spurs them to reach for the best academically.
- Students make informed decisions, set goals and take necessary action to achieve their goals.
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