Life After High School
The program that allows Georgia high school students to take college courses and earn both high school and college credit simultaneously at no tuition cost.
What is Dual Enrollment?
True or False: Going to see your high school counselor means you are in trouble.
What is False?
SMART goals stand for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and this final requirement.
What is Time-bound (or Timely)?
Georgia students must complete this specific credit combination across Health and Physical Education.
What is 0.5 credit of Personal Fitness and 0.5 credit of Health (1 full credit combined)?
This standardized testing program measures student proficiency in core high school courses in Georgia.
What is the Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS)?
The standardized test traditionally required by the U.S. military to measure aptitudes and determine job placement for enlistees.
What is the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery)?
The general policy that keeps conversations between a student and a school counselor private.
What is Confidentiality?
A coping technique where you intentionally focus on the present moment to reduce stress and anxiety.
What is Mindfulness (or Grounding)?
While Georgia does not require World Language credits for high school graduation, USG 4-year universities require this many credits in the same language.
What is 2 sequential credits of the same World Language?
These are the two high school English and Math courses evaluated by mandatory Georgia Milestones EOC assessments.
What are Literature & Composition II & Algebra Concepts & Connections?
A structured training program where a student learns a skilled trade through a combination of paid on-the-job training and classroom instruction.
What is an Apprenticeship?
Three critical situations where a counselor is legally and ethically obligated to break confidentiality.
What are: 1) Harm to self, 2) Harm to others, or 3) Abuse/neglect?
The recommended amount of sleep per night for high school teens to support healthy brain function and emotional balance.
What is 8 to 10 hours?
Under Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards, all high school students must complete 4 years of math, ending with a course at or above this level.
What is Advanced Algebra: Concepts & Connections (or equivalent higher-level math)?
State policy dictates that a student’s score on a Georgia Milestones EOC counts for this percentage of their final course grade.
What is 20%?
System of 22 technical colleges across Georgia offering certificate, diploma, and associate degree programs.
What is TCSG (Technical College System of Georgia)?
A small, structured group led by a counselor where students facing similar issues meet weekly to build skills and support one another.
What is a Small Group / Counseling Group?
The 3-digit crisis and suicide lifeline number available 24/7 across the U.S. for free, confidential support.
What is 988?
The 4 required Science credits must include Biology, a Physical Science or Physics course, Chemistry/Earth/Environmental Science, and this.
What is 1 additional core science elective credit?
The mandatory EOC assessments for Science and Social Studies cover these two specific courses.
What are Biology and United States History?
The term for a year taken between high school graduation and college entry, often spent working, traveling, or volunteering.
What is a Gap Year?
The national organization that sets standards, ethics, and framework models for school counselors across the United States.
What is the ASCA (American School Counselor Association)?
The time-management technique that uses a timer to break work into 25-minute focused chunks separated by short 5-minute breaks.
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
Georgia law mandates that all high school students take a course covering personal financial literacy, typically embedded into this required course.
What is Economics (or a standalone Personal Finance course)?
If a student is absent during the main EOC testing window, state rules require the exam to be administered by this deadline.
What is by the end of the next subsequent grading period (or during the makeup/retest window)?