Ferguson Elementary Professional School Counselors
Ferguson Elementary Guidance and Counseling Mission Statement:
The mission of the Ferguson Elementary School Counseling Department is to provide all students with access to comprehensive and developmentally appropriate counseling services which promote equity in achievement. Students will focus on their academic, career, and personal/social growth which promotes the well-being of the whole child. Ferguson Elementary students will acquire the academic knowledge and skills to be successful lifelong learners. Through a partnership with students, educators, parents, and community members our students will be college and career ready and able to complete in a global economy.
Ferguson Elementary Guidance and Counseling Vision Statement:
Students who experience the Ferguson Elementary Comprehensive Counseling Program will be life-long learners who fulfill their dreams through problem solving, critical thinking, trailblazers in their communities, and are world class citizens. These students will be culturally aware advocates who exhibit and embrace social, academic, and emotional growth. They will be a college and career ready in order to soar in a global work place.
Ferguson Elementary Guidance and Counseling Philosophy:
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The mission of the Ferguson Elementary School Counseling Department is to provide all students with access to comprehensive and developmentally appropriate counseling services which promote equity in achievement. Students will focus on their academic, career, and personal/social growth which promotes the well-being of the whole child. Ferguson Elementary students will acquire the academic knowledge and skills to be successful lifelong learners. Through a partnership with students, educators, parents, and community members our students will be college and career ready and able to complete in a global economy.
Ferguson Elementary Guidance and Counseling Vision Statement:
Students who experience the Ferguson Elementary Comprehensive Counseling Program will be life-long learners who fulfill their dreams through problem solving, critical thinking, trailblazers in their communities, and are world class citizens. These students will be culturally aware advocates who exhibit and embrace social, academic, and emotional growth. They will be a college and career ready in order to soar in a global work place.
Ferguson Elementary Guidance and Counseling Philosophy:
- All students can learn, achieve and be successful.
- All students have worth and should be treated with
dignity and respect.
- All students should have access to core curriculum
lessons and counseling services and will strive to remove barriers to
learning.
- All students have the right to participate in a
developmentally appropriate comprehensive school counseling program.
- The professional school counselors will advocate for
all students to be successful.
- The School Counseling program should be designed and
delivered by a certified professional school counselor.
- The counseling
program will be planned, evaluated and refined according to school wide data
and a result based evaluation system.
- Ferguson school counselors will abide by the Code of
Ethics of both the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and the American
School Counseling Association.
- Along will the faculty and staff of Ferguson
Elementary, Ferguson Elementary Professional School Counselors will strive to
develop student leaders who have a passion for lifelong learning and are either
college or career ready.
- Ferguson
school counselors will participate in ongoing staff development at the local,
district, state, and/or national levels.
- Parents
play an integral role in their child’s education and should be including in all
educational decisions.
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