Intermediate School Counseling Lessons

Our school counselors present lessons to our students in grades four through six each year. These are lessons that all of our students will have a chance to experience, mostly through classroom presentations delivered by our counselors. The work that our counselors do typically revolves around the social-emotional development, academic growth, and college and career development of our students. This work began with our elementary (kindergarten through grade 3) counselors and will continue with the secondary (grades 7-12) counselors. If you have any questions about these lessons, please contact your child’s school counselor:

Rozetta LaPlaca (Sherman)  rlaplaca@rhnet.org

Amy Elbogen (Vollmer)  aelbogen@rhnet.org 

4^th Grade:

• Students will continue to explore how to identify and manage their feelings, especially when engaged in a conflict with another person (social-emotional development).
• Students will continue to learn how to manage conflict with others, learning how to describe a problem and coming up with potential solutions (social-emotional development).
• Students will learn what it means to be respectful and responsible and how those qualities can help us stop bullying (social-emotional development).

5^th Grade

• Students will learn about empathy – understanding the feelings/perspectives of another person – and how empathy impacts the quality of our relationships with others (social-emotional development).
• Students will develop assertiveness skills – by learning how to disagree respectfully with others (social-emotional development).
• Students will learn about honesty and integrity and why they are important qualities of successful students (social-emotional development).

6^th Grade

• Students will meet with their school counselor to plan for junior high school. Students will select courses for 7^th grade and develop, with their counselor’s assistance, a plan for graduating from high school. Students will develop academic, career, and social-emotional goals (academic, career, social-emotional development).
• Students will take part in transition activities to help prepare them for junior high school (academic, career, social-emotional development).
• Students will learn about kindness and tolerance and how those qualities help to prevent bullying in our schools (social-emotional development).
• Students will continue to learn about assertiveness and how to resist peer pressure in a mature and respectful way (social-emotional development).