The American School Counseling Association sets the following standards to guide school counseling programs. https://www.schoolcounselor.org/

These standards have been utilized in development of programs currently available at BMS:

ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Students will acquire the attitudes, knowledge, and skills       that contribute to effective learning in school and across the lifespan
• Improve academic self-concept
• Acquire skills for improving learning
• Achieve school success
• Students will complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post-secondary options, including college.
• Improve learning
• Plan to achieve goals
• Students will understand the relationship of academics to the work of work and to life at home and in the community.
• Relate school to life experiences

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

• Students will acquire the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make informed career decisions.
• Develop career awareness
• Develop employment readiness
• Students will employ strategies to achieve future career goals with success and satisfaction.
• Acquire career information
• Identify career goals
• Students will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, training, and the world of work.
• Acquire knowledge to achieve career goals
• Apply skills to achieve career goals

PERSONAL/SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

• Students will acquire the knowledge, attitudes, and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.
• Acquire self-knowledge
• Acquire interpersonal skills
• Students will make decisions, set goals, and take necessary action to achieve goals.
• Self-knowledge application
• Students will understand safety and survival skills.
• Acquire personal safety skills