Sir Wilfrid Laurier S.S.

Guidance and Career Education Program

Each student has an assigned alpha counsellor. Guidance Counsellors are available to provide students with educational, career and personal support throughout their high school years. Through individual assistance, seminars and presentations, counsellors will support students in exploring educational and occupational opportunities.  In addition, counsellors are equipped to help students work through obstacles /barriers and to assist students with transitions to work and to post-secondary education.  Grade nine students receive the additional assistance of Laurier’s peer helpers, senior students who are trained in communication skills.  Peer helpers assist grade nine students in orientation, tutoring, classroom support and one on one helping.

The Student Services section of Laurier’s home page -www.tvdsb.ca/SirWilfridLaurier.cfm provides links to career and post secondary information.  The home page also provides information on courses.

While in secondary school, students have many decisions to make regarding their future.  The guidance program and the career studies course provide Laurier’s students with practical information to help guide them in their decision making for both future courses and post-secondary plans. Parents and students are encouraged to attend information sessions on pertinent topics such as course selection and post-secondary options which will be held at Laurier and at other locations in the TVDSB.