Student Planning Guidance Curriculum

Counselors teach or facilitate teaching the following skills/competencies in Jordan School District.

Elementary
Middle
High
Adult

SELF KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge of the importance of self-concept. Knowledge of the influence of a positive self-concept. Understanding the influence of a positive self-concept. Skills to maintain a positive self-concept.
Skills to interact with others. Skills to interact with others. Skills to interact positively with others. Skills to maintain effective behaviors.
Awareness of the importance of growth and change. Knowledge of the importance of growth and change. Understanding the impact of growth and development. Understanding developmental changes and transitions.

EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL EXPLORATION

Awareness of the benefits of educational achievement. Knowledge of the benefits of educational achievement to career opportunities. Understanding the relationship between educational achievement and career planning. Skills to enter and participate in education and training.
Awareness of the relationship between work and learning. Understanding the relationship between work and learning. Understanding the need for positive attitudes toward work and learning. Skills to participate in work and life-long learning.
Skills to understand and use career information. Skills to locate, understand, and use career information. Skills to locate, evaluate, and interpret career information. Skills to locate, evaluate, and interpret career information.
Awareness of the importance of personal responsibility and good work habits. Knowledge of skills necessary to seek and obtain jobs. Skills to prepare to seek, obtain, maintain, and change jobs. Skills to prepare to seek, obtain, maintain, and change jobs.
Awareness of how work relates to the needs and functions of society. Understanding how work relates to the needs and functions of the economy and society. Understanding how societal needs and functions influence the nature and structure of work. Understanding how the needs and functions of society influence the nature and structure of work.

CAREER PLANNING

Understanding how to make decisions. Skills to make decisions. Skills to make decisions. Skills to make decisions.
Awareness of the interrelationship of life roles. Knowledge of different occupations and changing male/female roles. Understanding the continuous changes in male/female roles Understanding the continuous changes in male/female roles
Awareness of the career planning process. Understanding the process of career planning. Skills in career planning. Skills to make career transitions.
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