Most dropout prevention programs and alternative learning programs involve school counselors. However, the school counselor has a responsibility for all students in ensuring access to needed services by advocating for students who may have personal issues interfering with their learning. School counselors assist students in acquiring skills for planning, monitoring, and managing personal, career, and lifestyle development. Responsibility for oneself is the cornerstone of this learning. School counselors help students to relate academic achievement to personal career success.
School counselors encourage personal growth and development throughout the life span.
They also ensure that those who come from a culturally diverse background will have access to appropriate services and opportunities that promote maximum development. The last goal is the bailiwick in which principals and counselors must work closely together to develop a school setting free of drugs and violence and to provide a disciplined environment conducive to learning. Two significant works have been published in the 1990s relating education to the workplace. The only other choice is to assure that our workers have the high skills necessary to compete in the global market. This challenge should be a motivating tool for counselors working with students to develop critical thinking and problem solving by choosing higher level courses in school.