The South Dakota Annual School Counselor Evaluation and Support Documentation are available for use by all school districts in South Dakota. The goals of this new evaluation include:
  •  Work with other educators to ensure student success.
  • Address student’s emotional needs and design a course for their lives and careers beyond high school.
  • Proactive guidance services are offered through a curriculum of classroom presentations based upon developmental needs of children’s age.
  • Provide responsive services that emerge from issues that appear either in students or groups as a whole.
  • Help students acquire communication skills, healthy self-images and appropriate relationships.
  • Help students determine strengths for post-secondary planning.
  • Serve as a resource to students, teachers, parents, and the school as a whole.
  • Design appropriate academic program to eliminate negative behaviors.
  • Collaborate with teachers to present guidance lessons for behavior management, or classroom procedure management.
  • Regularly confer with parents about any number of issues that affect student learning, typically related to behavior and emotions.
  • Interpret cognitive, aptitude, and achievement tests, student records, and assist stakeholders in identifying and resolving student needs, issues, and problems.​
Click the files below to access the South Dakota school counseling evaluation tools.
SD School Counselor Evaluation Supporting Document
File Size: 325 kb
File Type: pdf
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SD School Counselor Annual Evaluation Report
File Size: 10 kb
File Type: docx
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SD School Counselor Annual Evaluation Rating Spreadsheet
File Size: 1111 kb
File Type: xlsx
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