Your school counselor is on staff as a resource to you, the student. Here is a list of reasons why you should get to know your school counselor and take advantage of the many ways they can make your life a little easier. Counselors can help
With school: by helping you identify your talents
With relationships: by listening
With career planning: by helping you learn about careers and preparing for your future
With college: by helping you access applications and scholarships
With life: by helping you learn how to organize and adapt to change
The Hunter High School Counselors Comprehensive Guidance Counseling Program states that ALL students should gain competencies in the areas of personal, social, educational and career development. We provide training for students to effectively function with peers and others in the school, home and community setting.
We offer developmentally appropriate programs. We want to provide skills for preventative interventions while developing and protecting student individuality and safety. We want to recognize and acknowledge differences, while focusing on how to help each student succeed.
We view guidance as a vital and necessary component for student success and value the importance of career planning and decision making for life after high school. Our Student Educational Occupational Plan (SEOP) involves the student, parent and counselor. It is the vehicle that promotes planning from 10th grade and beyond graduation.
Our Comprehensive School Guidance Program is guided by developmentally appropriate competencies. This is accomplished through Guidance Curriculum, Individual Planning, Responsive Services, and System Support.
We assist students in becoming responsible adults who can develop realistic and fulfilling life plans based on an understanding of themselves and their needs, interests and skills. In addition we want to help students become competent in their decision making and career planning through individual SEOP's and guidance curriculum. We also want to help students learn to take responsibility for their own behavior and to work with others.
Program
Hunter High School follows the model established by the Utah State Office of Education for Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance. This program focuses on:
Reaching 100% of the student population
Providing a programmatic approach to approach to guidance
Ensuring accountability
Eliminating non-guidance activities for counseling personnel
Developing student competencies to address student needs
Defining the role of the school counselor within the Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance Program model.
Program Delivery Components
A. Guidance Curriculum is designed to address competencies to be developed by all students and implemented through classroom and group activities.
B. Individual planning involves students, their parents, and school counselors in a planning process that tuides and monitors the students' personal/social, educational, and career development.
C. Responsive Services focuses on providing help to students who face obstacles that interfere with personal/social, educational, or career development goals through prevention and intervention programs, counseling consultation and referral.
D. System Support includes the management of activities that establish, maintain, and enhance the total guidance program and support the total school program.
District Re-certification
In the spring of 2005 a Comprehensive Guidance District Recertification Team spent the day at Hunter High reviewing our program. The team recertified our program for 3 more years, giving the program above average marks in eleven different program areas.
The Hunter High School's Counseling and Guidance Center is a state-approved Comprehensive Guidance Center. Hunter's site reviews were conducted in the spring of 2002 and March of 2005, with our next site review scheduled for the spring of 2008.
Grades serviced include 10-12.
Student to Counselor Ratio is approximately 390 to 1.
Accreditation: Northwest Accreditation 2002-2003.
Hunter High School is located in the west side of the Salt Lake Valley/Granite School District. Granite School District headquarters will be located on State Street just south of the I-80 interchange. The neighborhood community consists primarily of residential housing and light commercial business.
The Hunter High School Counseling Center is open on all regular school days from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Counseling Center is also open on extended days during August to help assist with new student registration and with accommodating changes in students' schedules. Students and parents may contact a counselor via phone, email, or call the Counseling Center for general information during normal business hours.
Telephone: (801) 646-5361
Fax: (801) 646-5374
Address: 4200 South 5600 West in West Valley City, UT 84120