Your school counselor is

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Your school counselor is
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Welcome from your Counselor!

• I am your advocate.
• I will help with academic planning concerns
  like
• Decision making,
• Personal, Social Emotional Issues
• I will help with selection of post secondary
  opportunities.

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Your success in high school will directly depend
on how much time and effort you put into it.
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So, think about your goals.

• Are you planning to go to work right after high
  school?
• Are you planning to go to a technical school or
  the military?
• Are you planning to attend college?

• BECAUSE
• What you learn in high school will help determine
  what you do after you graduate.
• Will you be ready to go to work, to college, the
  military or tech school?

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You need 25 credits to graduate.

• You get the opportunity to earn 32 credits during
  your
• high school career
• 4 credits per semester
• 8 credits per year
• times 4 years

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How do you earn credits?

• Semester 118 weeks
• Block 1
• Block 2
• Block 3
• Block 4
• Term 19weeks
• Term 29 weeks

• Semester 218 weeks
• Block 1
• Block 2
• Block 3
• Block 3
• Term 39weeks
• Term 49weeks

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Graduation requirements

• 4 credits in English
• 3 credits in Social Studies
• 3 credits in Science
• 4 Credits in Math
• .5 Credit in Fitness
• .5 Credit in Health
• 1 Credit in Technology Education
• 1 Credit in a Fine Art
• 3 Credits in Career Pathway
• 5 Credits in Additional Electives

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Career Pathways

• Arts Communications
• Business Management Systems
• Health Services
• Human Services
• Industrial Engineering Technology
• Natural Resources Agricultural

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Completer Status

• In addition to earning to credits you must have a
  program of study.

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University Systems of Maryland Program of Study

• The graduate leaves with the courses necessary to
  enter a post-secondary institution
• Math level of Algebra 2 and beyond
• 2 Credits in the same foreign language.

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Career and Technology Education Completer.

• The graduate leaves with work-readiness skills in
  a concentrated career and technical area
• 4 credits in an approved
• CTE Completer Program

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Both CTE USM

• This student completes both programs of study
  with increased options for success at a
  post-secondary institution and a career.

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High School Assessments

• 9th grade Government Algebra
• 10th grade English Biology

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Student Service Learning

• This is partially infused in your curriculum.
  You earn some hours from middle school if you
  attended a middle school in Frederick County. In
  some high school classes you earn 4.5 hours per
  class.

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TRANSCRIPTSEvery day of the school year you are
building a transcript.A transcript is a
snapshot of you. Prospective employers may ask
for it. Colleges will ask for it. It will be
the first piece of information from which you
will be judged.
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Your transcript includes

• Your name and address
• Courses and grades
• Two cumulative grade point averages
• unweighted and weighted
• Two Ranks in class unweighted and weighted
• Attendance

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Attendance is very important! If your attendance
is poor, you could fail based on attendance alone.

• More than 5 illegal absences in a term will
  result in a failing grade for all of your classes
  for that term.
• More than 10 illegal absences in a semester will
  result in a failing grade for the class.

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Individual Counseling Record

• I will meet with you once a year to help you plan
  for your future.
• On the ICR form, I will circle credits you will
  earn this year.
• Together we will formulate a projected schedule.
• We will review your
• Completer status
• High School Assessments
• Career/college goals

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After your counseling meeting, please take home
theResource Packet

• Web Sites
• FCPS Portal Pages
• Transcript
• Individualized Counseling Record Form

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I will meet with each of you individually to
discuss your high school plan.
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When you plan your classes for the rest of high
school, begin with the end in mind.Consider
what you want to accomplish during your senior
year, then work backwards to plan classes for
next year. Think of prerequisites!
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• Power Point contributed by Patricia
  Baunoch-Ulrich
• Editors Sharon Boettinger
• Carla Thomas
• Ruth Farnsworth