Grade Level: Kindergarten

Goal 1: Skills for Learning
The student acquires the attitudes, knowledge, aptitudes, and skills that contribute to effective learning in school.

The student will:

1. Demonstrate good listening skills.
2. State the importance of self-control.
3. Explain the need for a positive attitude.

Goal 2: School Success
The student employs strategies to achieve success in school.

The student will:

1. Describe how learning encourages independence.
2. State the role and function of the school counselor.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of school and classroom rules.
4. Identify the school counselor by name and title.
5. Demonstrate a sense of belonging to his/her school.
6. Learn about problem-solving strategies.

Goal 3: Academics to Life Success
The student understands the relationship of academics to the world of work and to life at home and in the community.
The student will:

1. Define manners and how to use them.
2. Raise his/her hand when he/she wants to participate.
3. Demonstrate the need for sharing.

Goal 4: Investigate Careers
The student acquires the skills to investigate the world of work in relation to knowledge of self and to make career choices.

The student will:

1. Discuss his/her likes and dislikes.
2. Define the concept of work and understand that everyone has a job.
3. Tell why all jobs are important.
4. State that all careers are open to everyone regardless of gender, race, creed, etc.

Goal 5: Career Success
Students will employ strategies to achieve future career success and satisfaction.

The student will:

1. List classroom jobs.
2. Identify the various settings that work can be done.
3. Tell why being a student is a job.

Goal 6: Relationship Between School and Work
The student will understand the relationship between personal qualities, education and training in the world of work.

The student will:

1. Identify members of the school staff and their jobs.
2. Discuss various careers in the community.
3. Identify the school counselor by name and understand his/her role.

Goal 7: Respect Self and Others
The student acquires the knowledge, attitudes, and interpersonal skills to help understand and respect self and others.

The student will:

1. Identify and express feelings.
2. Explain the importance of taking care of his/her body.
3. Discuss his/her relationship to others.
4. Identify important people and enjoyable activities.
5. Identify various feelings terms.
6. Describe the basic feelings of happiness, sadness, and anger.
7. Discuss how social skills affect relationships.
8. Identify positive characteristics in a friend.
9. Share feelings and listen with respect to the feelings of others.

Goal 8: Goal Setting and Attainment
The student makes decisions, goal sets, and takes action.

The student will:

1. Identify choices made at school and home.
2. Work cooperatively with classmates.
3. Identify tasks completed independently.

Goal 9: Survival and Safety Skills
The student understands safety and survival skills.

The student will:

1. Practice group cooperation.
2. Identify choices made with help.
3. Identify someone with whom he/she can share feelings.
4. Identify two ways to help him/herself to feel better.
5. Express feelings at home and at school.
6. List basic ways to stay safe at home and school.
7. Identify strategies to cope with anger.