We care about each of our students and are aware that every child has different needs. While our faculty members support our students from Preschool to Grade 12, additional counseling services are also provided.
We promote academic achievement, facilitate post-secondary planning and foster personal growth in our students through individual attention or group activities.
What is School Counseling?
As outlined by the American School Counseling Association (ASCA), a school counseling program is: comprehensive in scope, preventative in design and developmental in nature. So what does this mean?
• Comprehensive in Scope:
School Counselors focus on what students from Kindergarten through 12th grade should know and be able to do academically, mentally and socially.
• Preventative in Design:
The school guidance curriculum teaches specific skills and learning opportunities that serve as prevention education.
• Developmental in Nature:
School counselors offer programs suitable for each student’s appropriate developmental levels.
Programs Offered By Our Counseling Department:
The objective of the EAL program is to facilitate the inclusion of non-native English speaking students in their mainstream classes.
We strive to provide quality EAL support for our students. Although students are required to have a certain level of English proficiency according to the year level they are applying to enter, we work with our EAL team and homeroom teachers to enable the EAL students’ transition into the mainstream class.
We adapt ‘ESL in the Mainstream’ in our curriculum and track student progress with our EAL Scope and Scales (starting from the date they are screened for admissions purposes till they are included in the mainstream class).
There are mainly two types of EAL support provided at HJIS: