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Thornton Middle School

What Does a School Counselor Do?

This includes the selection of classes and placement in appropriate courses, attendance improvement, and study skills.

Academics and Planning            

We assist students with registration, register new students, and make necessary class changes during the school year.

Registration and Scheduling

We can help monitor a student’s grades with progress reports, and we can help students with school success strategies.

Monitoring Grades

This includes suicide prevention, child abuse, pregnancy, substance abuse, and providing follow-up services and resource information as needed.

Crisis Intervention Services

Parent Support

Consulting

We are available to meet with parents and to set up conferences with teachers to address student needs.

We are available to help parents, students, and teachers find the community resources to help them achieve their best.

Our goal is to increase student awareness of the career and educational planning process and to provide resources for learning about careers.

We present lessons about school success, peacemaking, anger management, stress management, and career choices.

We counsel individuals and groups in a variety of social and personal growth areas.  (family and personal issues, peer issues, grief, self-esteem, etc.)

Counselors are active participants in the life of the school beyond the walls of the counseling office.

Career/Life Planning

Guidance Lessons

Personal and Social Growth

Contributing to the Operation of TMS