Beacon High School Guidance
The school provides guidance and counseling services to assist students to understand themselves and to make the best use of their time and abilities both in and out of school. Each staff member plays an important role in the guidance of students, but the guidance counselors play the most direct part. Counselors work with students over the course of their high school career, assisting with educational and personal development.
Counselors spend a large part of their time in individual conferences with student s and parents, and serve as the student's prime school resource for receiving help in planning for future endeavors. While counselors cannot be specialists inn all matters affecting each student, they are familiar with the resources of the school and can obtain specialized information or services if needed.
Counselors can be of great help in choosing levels and courses of study, improving study habits, planning the post high school years, and organizing career or life goals; however, it is ultimately each student's responsibility to see to it that all of the imposed graduation requirements and application deadlines are met. Group programs which are offered in career areas and college counseling can assist students in gaining a better understanding of the competitive future they will confront.
Students are encouraged to see the guidance secretary during non-instructional time to arrange appointments with their counselor.
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