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As part of the Pathways Connection Program, special attention is given to students in 8th grade to help them understand how they are fearfully and wonderfully made during this difficult stage of development. All eighth grade students will take personality, spiritual gifts. and learning styles assessments, as well as a career interest inventory.
These assessments are geared toward helping adolescent students answer the developmental stage questions of “Who am I? and Where do I fit?” Our school counselor will meet individually with each student and their parents to review their testing results, as well as, facilitate in-class guidance sessions focused on students learning how to make educated decisions about their future based on their God-given gifts and abilities.
This testing information follows students as they transition to high school and is utilized in student’s individual academic and college and career planning curriculum.
Middle School Counseling and Guidance Overview
Cumberland Christian Academy’s Middle School Counseling Program consists of working with and supporting students in the areas of:
- Academic development
- Personal and social functioning
- Career development
By partnering with parents and working alongside teachers, our school counselor works to support 6th-8th grade student success in all areas. School counseling support is provided through:
- Individual student meetings
- In-class guidance sessions geared towards appropriate grade level topics
- Emails distributed through Renweb system regarding topics pertaining to middle school students and their parents
- Pathways Connections: a program designed to assist eighth grade students by providing testing to assess personality, spiritual gifts, learning styles, and career interest.
- Parent academies: (geared towards relevant support topics to help parents in their role as parents and partners with CCA)
- The Middle School Landscape–How to Flourish and Thrive in Middle School
- The Eighth Grade Testing Overview–Introduction to the DISC-Model of Understanding Human Behavior/Personalities, Spiritual Gifts, Learning Styles and Career Interest Inventories–Helping Students Understand Themselves and Others
- Transitioning to High School
Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP)
Our professional school counselor identifies qualified 4th, 5th, and 7th grade students based on their outstanding performance on standardized achievement tests. These students may join the Duke TIP program and have the opportunity to take the EXPLORE, SAT, or ACT early as well as participate in other advanced academic opportunities throughout the year. For more information see www.tip.duke.edu/7gts.
Sherry Campbell - CCA Professional School Counselor
s.campbell@cumberlandchristian.org
Sherry Campbell, M.S., L.P.C., holds a M.S. degree in Counseling, a Christian Counseling Diploma, a B.S. in Psychology, and an A.A. degree. In her 20 plus years in counseling—as a Licensed Professional Counselor, GA Certified Professional School Counselor, and ACSI Professional Guidance Counselor Specialist—she has served as a mobile assessment coordinator, in-patient program director, and an individual and group therapist in private and church based counseling centers. For the last 9 years she has served in private Christian schools as a professional school counselor working at all levels, elementary, middle, and high school.