Student Needs Enter Higher Education-Counseling

As a high school counselor, I encourage students every day to take rigorous coursework to prepare them for post secondary education. They need rigorous coursework meeting state standards, district requirements, entrance assessments, and to be well-rounded in all areas. I also know that students need to be emotionally, physically, and behaviorally prepared for the move to higher education. I find students that have outside challenges to also over come. Many it is poverty, peer pressures, lack of social skills, and motivation. Counselors follow a curriculum when working with students to address student issues, yet, many fall through the cracks.