Keynote Address: College and Work Readiness for All Students: A Major Goal of Comprehensive School Counseling Programs

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This presentation focuses on how school counselors, working within the framework of comprehensive school counseling programs, can help all students find purpose and direction in their education, take challenging coursework, and make a successful transition to work or postsecondary education. Find out how comprehensive school counseling programs can provide counselors with the structure and organization to help all students gain the knowledge and skills to understand themselves, feel connected to school, plan for the future, and reckon with possible barriers to learning. The need for close collaboration and consultation with parents, teachers, administrators, and other educational personnel is emphasized.

Speaker:
Norman C. Gysbers, Curators’ Professor, Educational, School and Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri, Columbia

Presented: 
June 5 2008
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