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TENNESSEE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
SCHOOL COUNSELING MODEL & STANDARDS POLICY 5.103
Academic Standards
Attitudes:
AA1. Improve academic self-concept Skills Assessment
AA2. Display positive attitude toward work and learning Portfolio
AA3. Develop high expectations for achievement Portfolio
AA4. Apply self-motivation and self-direction to learning Portfolio
AA5. Model a sense of belonging in the school environment Student Activities
AA6. Build aspirations for postsecondary education and training Portfolio
Knowledge:
AK1. Specify high school graduation requirements, including pathway of study High School Plan
AK2. Describe the benefits of education for career, life management, and personal and professional satisfaction
Career Search/Job Demand
AK3. Articulate belief that postsecondary education and life-long learning are necessary for long-term career success
Portfolio
Skills:
AS1. Use test-taking, time management, organizational, and study skills to improve academic achievement
Skills Assessment/ GPA
AS2. Work independently Personality Assessment
AS3. Develop and practice effective technology skills Messaging Center
AS4. Utilize resources to overcome barriers to learning Counselor Resources
AS5. Exhibit creativity Portfolio
AS6. Set, evaluate progress toward, and achieve long and short term goals Portfolio/ File Vault
AS7. Demonstrate critical thinking and decision making skills to make informed decisions Portfolio/Test Scores
Experiences:
AE1. Experience academic growth and success Smart Goals/File Vault
AE2. Engage and persevere in challenging coursework Smart Goals/Portfolio
AE3. Create a secondary educational plan that includes transition to postsecondary education and the workforce
Smart Goals/HS Plan
AE4. Participate in enrichment or extracurricular activities Portfolio/Resume
TENNESSEE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
SCHOOL COUNSELING MODEL & STANDARDS POLICY 5.103
Social and Emotional Standards
Attitudes:
SA1. Develop positive attitudes toward self as a unique and worthy person Skills Assessment/
Personality Assessment
SA2. Develop positive attitudes toward others as unique and worthy people Portfolio
SA3. Respect diversity in culture, perspectives, values, and experiences Portfolio/Values
Assessment
SA4. Recognize each person is a part of a diverse local and global community Values Assessment
Knowledge:
SK1. Develop and articulate personal values, attitudes, and beliefs Values Assessment
SK2. Compare and contrast healthy and unhealthy behaviors Portfolio
SK3. Distinguish appropriate behaviors for a variety of settings and situations Portfolio
Skills:
SS1. Make ethical decisions and practice social responsibility Resume
SS2. Advocate for self in multiple settings using assertiveness skills SMART Goals, HS Plan
SS3. Demonstrate empathy toward others Resume, Values
Assessment
SS4. Effectively collaborate with others, cooperate with diverse perspectives, and communicate effectively in a variety of situations Explore (Middle School)
SS5. Exercise personal safety skills, including refusal skills Explore (Middle School)
SS6. Assume responsibility for choices and consequences Resume
SS7. Positively manage behavior and choices by applying self-discipline and self-control Resume
SS8. Persevere through challenges to achieve goals Resume
SS9. Select and utilize appropriate coping skills in the face of a specific challenge
SS10. Appropriately utilize social media to enhance learning, develop positive relationships, communicate, and engage in age appropriate entertainment Messaging Center
Experiences:
SE1. Participate in service projects, service learning, and/or philanthropic activities Portfolio/ Resume
SE2. Work effectively in diverse groups by developing and employing leadership and teamwork skills
Portfolio
SE3. Explore cultural, ethnic, philosophical, or demographical differences in a safe, positive, and nurturing environment
Student Activities
SE4. Create and sustain positive, supportive, and appropriate relationships with peers and adults that support success
Recommendations
TENNESSEE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
SCHOOL COUNSELING MODEL & STANDARDS POLICY 5.103
College and Career Readiness Standards
Attitudes:
CA1. Develop and articulate postsecondary education and career aspirations Smart Goals/File Vault
CA2. Articulate that career development occurs across the lifespan Career Search
CA3. Reflect on progress toward goals, display a growth mindset, and accept feedback to improve knowledge, skills, and abilities in order to meet goals Learn about Yourself
Knowledge:
CK1. Research and appraise characteristics of a variety of traditional and nontraditional occupations
Career Search/ Job Demand
CK2. Articulate how personal abilities, skills, interests, and motivations influence values, choices, and plans
Skills Assessment/Career
Search
CK3. Articulate the importance of responsibility, dependability, punctuality, integrity, and effort in the workplace
Values Assessment/Resume
CK4. Research and summarize the education and training needed to achieve specified career goals
Career Search
CK5. Examine and utilize resources for college affordability planning Money for College
CK6. Research, select, and participate in postsecondary admissions and scholarship applications processes
Scholarships/College
Search
Skills:
CS1. Develop skills to locate, evaluate and interpret career information Career Search
CS2. Balance school, home, and community activities effectively Portfolio/Resume
CS3. Utilize internal and external resources to manage transitions and adapt to changing situations/responsibilities
Messaging
CS4. Communicate effectively using oral, written, and listening communications skills Messaging
CS5. Set clear, ambitious, and obtainable postsecondary goals Portfolio/File Vault
Experiences:
CE1. Participate in career and postsecondary institution exploration activities Apply to College
CE2. Assess and modify educational plan to support changes in educational and career goals
Career Search
CE3. Pursue and develop competency in areas of career interest Portfolio
CE4. Participate in college and career assessments Test Preparation
CE5. Complete the FAFSA FAFSA
CE6. Submit at least one postsecondary education, training, or workplace application; participate in TNPromise program, if applicable Apply to College
CollegeforTN.org Appendix
Apply to College-CollegeforTN.org allows high school student users to
Track a College Application so that counselors and students know the
steps and the deadlines they are required to meet when applying for
admission to TCAT, community colleges, or four year universities.
CollegeforTN.org does not allow students to apply to college through the
website, but it does send students directly to the school websites to learn
more about the admissions process. School Counseling programs can collaborate to design
programs for all CollegeforTN.org users during College Application and Exploration Week in
September. While seniors are applying for colleges, underclassmen can be shown the process and
then self-report prospective colleges to be saved to their digital portfolios.
Career Search-Users can narrow
down a career search based on
their values, interests, and skills, as
well as, research the average
salaries and Tennessee employers
hiring within these fields. The
Career Search allows students to
add careers to the Portfolio and
then rank these Career Interests.
In other words, a middle school
student may want to see which
careers fit her STEAM aspirations,
but succeeds in high school
engineering courses and is now
more interested in civil
engineering so she ranks civil
enginnering first on her Career list.
College Cost Estimator-When a user
saves colleges into his/her Portfolio,
the Financial Aide tools will
automatically input tuition and other
fees so that students can begin to see
what that school will actually cost.
Students can manually add in a
Financial Aid Award and then input the
specific work-study information and
grants they have been offered to get a
better picture of what the total price
of attending will be. This is a great task
for high school seniors in the final stages
of decisions during the months of February through May.
College Search- Students in middle school
and high school can search for colleges
within Tennessee and beyond. The most
helpful tool within the College Search is the
ability to narrow down a search for colleges
based on Academics, Size, Environment,
Campus Life, Costs, and Majors. School
counselors can connect a lesson about GPA
to a lesson about college match and reach with
the College Search tool. For example, counselors can show middle school students that there are
more college options when a student’s GPA is above a 3.0 GPA. Counselors can also show the impact
of an ACT score, or geography on a student’s options for
college after high school.
College Visit-High School students who have saved
colleges to their College List and Portfolio within
CollegeforTN.org can record the date and jot down
personal experiences about a recent college visit.
Students could be encouraged to complete a journal
response after a class field trip to a local institution, or
students could be asked to complete these over the summer to
show a demonstrated interest in certain colleges.
Counselor Resources-Counselor lesson plans and activities can
be found behind a Counselor login, allowing school counselors
and teachers the ability to locate specific lessons that meet the
new TN Counseling Standards. For example, students working
to complete a college essay for the College and Career Readiness
standards can find a specific 50 minutes-long lesson on writing and revising a college essay. To
request counselor access, a school-administrator, or state administrator must approve your
permission. Create a counselor account and request permission on CollegeforTN.org. Your approval
should take no longer than 24 hours to be completed.
Explore-Middle School Student Users are guided through CollegeforTN.org in 3 modules: What Makes
You Special, What Are Your Dreams, and How Do You Prepare? Here, middle school users walk through
the interest inventories, career/college aspirations, and the social and emotional expectations of
students in high school and beyond. School counselors can support middle school students Social
and Emotional Learning by guiding them through the lessons within a classroom with a homeroom
teacher or professional school counselor.
FAFSA –The Free Application for Federal Student Aid must be completed by every Tennessean to
become eligible for the HOPE scholarship and TN Promise awards. The FAFSA must be completed
each year that a student is receiving scholarships or grants. CollegeforTN.org allows students to store
and save their FSA Username. Counselors cannot see students’ secure FAFSA Login credentials, but
can monitor when a student has stored an FSA Username within CollegeforTN.org in order to support
students in meeting the milestone.
File Vault-Students can save and
securely store important
documents within
CollegeforTN.org. Students can
store a personal statement,
high school transcript, senior
capstone presentation, or even
teacher recommendations within
the File Vault. Now, counselors can impersonate, or switch between a student-view and a counselor
view in order to view these documents and prepare a counselor letter for college, begin building a
course schedule for rising 9th graders, or prepare community partners for senior thesis/capstone
presentations. Presently, counselors cannot batch print Files from the File vault, nor can counselors
store files within a counselor file vault. We are working on it!
Grade-Point Average (GPA)-The Tennessee Department of Education has pointed out that all 8th
graders need to know and
understand how GPA impacts
choices for college and career.
In order to make certain that all
8th graders (and others) know
how to calculate GPA, send your
student users to his/her
Portfolio. There, students can
Edit Portfolio in order to self-
report GPA and any test scores.
A best practice is encouraging all
students to enter these GPA
numbers after they receive a report card/progress report.
“Guide Me” Milestones-Depending on the age and
grade level of each user, CollegeforTN.org will
prompt students and counselors to complete
certain items each academic school year to make
sure that each counselor and student is working
towards college and career success. These
Milestones, created by the TN Department of
Education, are research-based and lead to higher
college-going rates and the expansion of college and
career cultures within schools. Counselors,
administrators, and state officials will be able to
monitor the amount of active students and counselors
who are meeting these milestones. CollegeforTN.org will also be able to directly nudge students
through the Messaging Center to encourage more students and counselors to hit all of the milestones
each academic school year.
High School Plan- Developing a plan for high school and beyond must start in elementary and middle
school. With CollegeforTN.org, students
can develop high school graduation
plans using credits required and the
Tennessee Graduation Policy and then
store that high school plan in their
Digital Portfolio, under the File Vault.
Interests Assessment-What careers
and work environments will keep
students engaged and enjoying the
work? Using these assessment tools,
students rank personal interests in
order to narrow down a college major
and a career field.
Job Demand- High School Students searching for Careers that are in high demand can narrow down
Career Searches by job
demand and save careers into
her/his portfolio. For example,
a student who is worried
about loans because a career
requires a Bachelor’s Degree
can now see how “in demand”
that job is in Tennessee and
use this information to make
decisions about potential
degrees and fields of study.
Messaging Center- Students
and all users can communicate
within schools through the messaging center. If students and users want the messages to come to a
specific email or cell phone number, users create these account preferences and then receive
CollegeforTN.org system-wide messages and also counselor-created messages. Students can develop
mature technology skills by composing a message within CollegeforTN.org via the Messaging Center.
Counselors can document regular interventions and conversations with students over time through
the Messaging Center. The messaging center is a one-way tool for students; in other words, students
must respond to communications via CollegeforTN.org.
Money for College-CollegeforTN.org has robust financial aid planning tools that can be accessed both
with and without creating an account. Students who want to begin saving in the elementary grades
can learn from financial aid myths
and even watch videos about state
and institutional scholarships.
Money for College allows high
school students the opportunity to
store an FSA Username, estimate
family contribution, estimate loan
costs, and compare college costs.
These results are saved securely
and privately to the student user’s
account within CollegeforTN.org.
Personality Assessment-Students
can take a Myers-Briggs Inventory on
CollegeforTN.org. When students are more aware of personal strengths and areas of growth, they are
much more likely to believe that future colleges and careers are well within their grasp. Counselors
can also use the Myers-Briggs to support students meeting Social and Emotional Standards, SK1
“Develop and articulate personal values, attitudes, and beliefs.”
Portfolio-Students create an online Portfolio with an appropriate picture and important resume
information that is stored on CollegeforTN.org. The Portfolio is available to students for a lifetime, as
long as the students still remember their username, password, and email address. The Portfolio is the
hub for counselors, parents, and students to monitor their own progress and keep track of goals,
activities, accomplishments, resumes, personal statements, and even store documents in the File
Vault. Encouraging students to regularly update activities, leadership roles, and even ACT and GPA to
the online portfolio, can support your school’s counseling program. Students can print out the
Portfolio in preparation of meeting with an adult counselor, or can export the document so they can
share with colleges or employers virtually. Students with an IEP, or 504 Plan may find the Portfolio
helpful because it celebrates assets, skills, and interests more personally for a student than a high
school transcript.
Recommendations-When students
Track a College Application, they
are prompted to research the
number of teacher
recommendations a school
requires or suggests. Students are
encouraged to have a teacher in
mind to write their
recommendation(s) before they
leave for summer break leading up
to senior year. It is important that
middle school and high school
students know about the recommendation requirement for many colleges so that students are aware
that forming positive relationships with counselors, teachers, and administrators will support students’
college and career aspirations.
Required Classes-All elementary, middle and high
school students must be aware of Tennessee high
school graduation requirements. The state of
Tennessee wants to make certain that all students
are taking the correct courses, ACT/SAT and the 22
required credit hours in order to be able to apply for
TN Promise and to graduate from high school with a
clear pathway. See High School Plan for ideas on
how to store a HS Plan and Postsecondary Plan into
your students’ Digital Portfolio using File Vault.
Resume-Under each student’s Portfolio, students are encouraged to create and keep an updated
resume. The resume imports students’ personal address, activities, accomplishments and other items
and then creates a printer-friendly resume. The resume is automatically stored within a Students
Digital Portfolio for the life of the student. Students can be expected to update/complete a resume
prior to senior year so that counselors can begin to know students and craft personalized counselor
letters to colleges and universities.
Scholarships and Money for College- Users can search national and Tennessee specific scholarships
through the Money for College and Scholarships Search. Counselors can virtually recommend
scholarships to specific groups of students and also students can add scholarships to a saved list.
When scholarships are added to a student’s list, the deadlines appear in the student’s
CollegeforTN.org calendar, helping parents, counselors, and students stay on track to complete the
right scholarships for the most amount of money.
Skills Assessment- Users can take a skills survey within the site and save the results in order to
customize career and college searches. The skills inventory is not an aptitude test; skills results ask
students to self-report strengths, ensuring that Counseling Programs are helping all students meet
the TN Counseling Standards, i.e. CA3-Reflect on progress toward goals, display a growth mindset, and
accept feedback to improve knowledge, skills, and abilities in order to meet goals; CK2-Articulate how
personal abilities, skills, interests, and motivations influence values, choices, and plans.
SMART Goals- Students need to set short term and long term goals in order to take steps towards a
pathway. An editable PDF allows students to create social, academic, or career goals. Counselors can
locate this resource under their Counselor Resource page, Student Activities. Students can edit the
PDF and then can store SMART Goals within their file vault and Portfolio.
Student Activities-Within a user’s Portfolio, the student is encouraged to keep updated clubs,
organizations, or groups in which that user is an active member. Users will edit his or her portfolio
and then be
prompted to clarify
which career field or
category fits best.
Counselors can use
students resumes to
support academic
and career pathways,
as well as learn more
about the student in
order to form positive
counseling
relationships.
Test Preparation-
Students need to
know what to expect
on the ACT and SAT
tests before they take
the test. CollegeforTN.org
allows students to register for the ACT/SAT and learn more about the test by taking a practice test.
Students are also required to enter a Target Score for the ACT during junior year of high school.
Schools can celebrate test scores and use these target scores to support students’ aspirations and
address social and emotional needs.
Test Scores-Students are required to complete an ACT or SAT in order to attain a regular diploma
from the State of Tennessee. Students can input their ACT scores into the Portfolio and enter the
sub-scores for the ACT test as well. Now, students can compare to see if summer
enrichment/summer bridge programs will help them test out of remedial courses while in college.
Target goal scores also help students create a goal to strive for each time they take the ACT test.
Track College Applications-When users have added at least one college to their list, users can track an
application within the site. Users can put in the deadline, requirements and other important
transcript information so they can begin to see how “ready” and on track they are to apply for
college(s) and complete the necessary paperwork. Schools can use this part of the site during College
Application and Exploration Week to show students all the steps required in order to complete a
college application before they become seniors in high school.
Values Assessment-What will students value in the work place? Students need to think critically about
what they deem important in life and in the future. If students can identify the important aspects of a
career and/or a career cluster, then students can begin to fill in the blanks and search for meaningful
work and academic pathways. Students can import values results into his/her career search and can
retake these assessments. The Values Assessment can help counseling programs engage students in
conversations about specific social and emotional needs in their future careers. If students have
certain values as middle and high school students, then students are very likely to continue to have
these values into their adult lives.