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Guidance and Placement Services
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Guidance programs have a purpose of assisting students make informed educational and career decisions.  Guidance programs in Missouri provide the resources and materials to ensure that this process unfolds in a systematic, comprehensive manner.  They are integral parts of each school's total educational program designed to support, facilitate, and encourage classroom instruction and student achievement.

The Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Program is a developmental framework designed to assist students in acquiring and using life-long learning skills through the development of academic, career, self-awareness, and interpersonal communication skills.  It is developmental by design and includes sequential activities organized and implemented by certified school counselors, with the active support of teachers, administrators, students and parents.

The Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Program is designed to serve all students in grades K-14 and help ensure equal opportunity for all students to participate fully in the educational process integrating academic, career, and personal/social development.

The Guidance and Placement System provides a uniform, yet flexible, set of standards and components for guidance and placement in area career centers.  These components  focus on services to students and provides for accountability and program improvement. 


News and Notes

Students are often deemed eligible for different types of services as a result, in part, of an administration of an individual intelligence test.  The position paper from the National Association for Gifted Children below gives some guidelines to be considered when using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition (WISC-IV) for determination of eligibility.

National Association for Gifted Children Position Paper

Military Recruiting in Missouri Public Schools

  Advisory Committee Recommendations on Recruiting   Advisory Committee Letter on Recommendations
 

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Page updated:  February 8, 2008


Guidance and Placement Services
Bragg Stanley, Director
Phone: (573) 751-7966
Fax: (573)526-4261
Bragg.Stanley@dese.mo.gov


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