Slinger Middle School Student Services

The step from elementary school to middle school can often be a confusing and sometimes even a frightening experience. The middle school counseling staff understands these feelings and is prepared to offer assistance.
 
Our primary mission at Slinger Middle School is to help you acquire the skills, knowledge, and values, which will help you to succeed in today's world. Such learning cannot take place while personal and academic problems are foremost in your mind. The counseling staff is here to help deal with the concerns you might have as a middle school student. They will not make decisions for you, but will help you get information and to think through your decisions. Following are some areas of concern that you will be dealing with in middle school:

Academic Development

• Developing internal academic motivation
• Developing good study skills
• Developing a sense of the future and how to learn most effectively
• Exhibiting problem-solving skills

Personal/Social Development

• Developing self and social self-concept
• Understanding and developing peer relationships
• Exhibiting positive attitude toward school, family, and self
• Learning to communicate with parents
• Understand physical, emotional, and intellectual growth & development
• Learning to cope with life's pressures, challenges, defeats, and successes
• Learning to deal with ongoing changes in personal and academic life

Career Development

• Understanding decision-making skills
• Learning to cope with transition in school, home and community lives
• Becoming informed about alternative education and vocational choices and preparation for them
• Relating personal interests to broad occupational areas
• Understanding and using communication skills
• Learning human conflict management with adults and peers

Slinger School District is committed to meeting the needs of students and helping each student deal more effectively with personal and academic challenges. A counseling program is an integral part of a school's total educational program.
 
The focus of Slinger Middle School's counseling program is prevention, intervention and promotion of self. This is achieved in part through the teaching of life skills such as decision-making, problem solving, and conflict resolution.