Standards for Counselor Peformance Standards

Index of School Counselor Licensing Standards

INTRODUCTION

The effective school counselor focuses on students’ long-term academic, career, and personal/social development; effective counselor demonstrates the basic skills and dispositions to promote students’ autonomy, literacy, responsibility to self and others, and lifelong learning. With developmentally appropriate counseling and guidance, The ultimate goal is for students to become positive, courageous, confident, competent, and caring human beings. The educational system must develop citizens who can govern themselves and have a global perspective. The citizens must be flexible, resourceful and able to deal with open-endedness, complexity. The effective school counselor promotes students’ autonomy, literacy, responsibility to self and others, and lifelong learning through developmentally appropriate counseling and guidance.

The general outcomes of public education in Hawaii sought for all learners include the following general skills and dispositions: