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Georges Vanier Guidance

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Guidance Department Timings: 8:15 AM - 4:15 daily

What do Guidance Counsellors at Vanier do?

Guidance counsellors at Vanier provide:

  • Educational Counselling
  • Career Counselling
  • Personal/Crisis Counselling
Counsellors assist students with 
  • Course selection for registration in day school, summer school, night school
  • Timetable changes
  • Registration for college and university courses
  • Scholarship information
  • Transcript information
  • Career Centre information
  • Responsibilities

Registrations

  • Counsel new students
  • Evaluate documents
  • Test & assess where necessary
  • Timetable appropriately
Visa Students       

  • Assist with counselling & timetabling of Visa Students.

Ontario Student Records (OSR)

  • Read incoming ones & disseminate pertinent information
  • Evaluate & up-date transcripts where necessary
  • Read outgoing ones to remove inappropriate information

Timetable Changes

  • Organize timetable changes routines for students
  • Update numbers in classes
  • Counsel students about appropriate courses

Social Services

  • Process letters
  • Notify Social Services when student is no longer in the school

At-Risk Students

  1. “Time On Task” - counsel students when they are sent out of class
  2. Meet with teachers & students to try to resolve conflicts
  3. After each report counsel students who are failing

Grade 9

  • Grade 9 visits
  • After Grade 9 info night
  • ESL testing for Grade 9 feeder school students

Bulletin Boards

  • Maintain and update bulletin boards across from the Student Services area (you might want to check these boards for Scholarships, contests and notifications)

Grade 10

  • Registration (Course selection)
  • Contact with feeder schools (student recruitment, organizing student tours)
  • Forest Valley visit
  • Grade 10 BBQ with parents, teachers and students
  • Information night for parents of next year’s Grade 10 students
  • Organize student leaders as ambassadors
  • Grade 10 orientation
Course & Career Information Day       

  • Design & organize this day every Spring
  • Contact Colleges & Universities
  • Plan special morning timetable
  • Organize & distribute Course Planning packages for students & teachers

Scholarships

  • Identify nominees for university & community scholarships
  • Identify award winners for commencement
  • Write letters of recommendation
  • Submit supporting documentation
  • Advertise available scholarships
  • Identify award winners for recognition assemblies & graduation

Transcripts

  • Award credits & diplomas for night school & summer school credits
  • Assess new students & award EQV’s
  • Examine transcripts for accuracy

Student Promotion

  • Organize promotion meetings and process results
  • Participate in graduation planning and ceremony (prepare diplomas and awards)

College Applications

  • Personal & career counselling
  • Organize visitation of liaisons
  • Counsel students about college applications
  • Follow-up about changes & errors

University Applications

  • Personal & career counselling
  • Organize visitations of liaisons
  • Counsel students about university applications

Summer School Registration

  • Counsel students
  • Sign application forms, send out & file

Career Centre

  • Update & maintain career material
  • Make University & College materials available to all students
  • Disseminate college, university, & career mailings that come in daily
  • Inform students about part-time, full-time, & summer job availability
  • Take students on career related trips

Virtual School

  • Provide information about taking Virtual school courses
Advanced Placement
  • Coordinates the Advanced Placement Program at Georges Vanier.

Volunteering

  • Provide information about volunteering opportunities
  • Organize volunteer fairs
  • Document history of community service for students

Apprenticeship Programs

  • Organize trade fairs
  • Provide Information about Apprenticeship programs