LINKS Student Advisement Program
Curriculum Delivery Schedule Template
Recommended Topics by Grade Level
Topics selected are designed to meet content standard requirement for each grade level. Schools can rearrange or substitute topics/lessons as long as all content standards are
addressed at each grade level.
Lessons
9th
Lesson
10th
11th
12th
Quarter
1
9.1
9.2
9.3
Introduction to High School
Sophomore Year Orientation
10.1
Orientation to LINKS Program
Setting Ground Rules
Reviewing LINKS Curriculum and
Identifying Student Needs
Preparing/Organizing for Academic
Success
10.2
LINKS Program Review/Ground Rules
Review Goals Letter, Set New goals
11.2
10.3
Graduation Requirements—Checklist
Update portfolios
11.3
Goal Setting RTS
9.4
9.5
9.6
10.4
High School
Expectations/Responsibilities
21st Century Skills Goals Letter
Understanding Midterm
Report/Graduation Requirement
Study Skills Assessment
9.7
9.8
9.9
9.10
10.5
Sophomore Timeline—WV Planner
Understanding PLAN/PSAT/WESTEST
Results
Study Skills Assessment and Student
Plan
10.6
ACT Plan Prep
Test Taking Strategies
10.8
11.5
ACT/SAT Preparation
11.7
10.10
Registering ACT/SAT and other
assessments RTS
How to Prepare for College Visits –
Questions/Documentation
Time Management – Damon
11.8
Introduce Three-Year Plan
10.9
Building Your Portfolio
Stages of Career Planning
Junior Checklist Understanding
School Specific goals for Junior Year,
Credits/Graduation Checklist
11.4
11.6
12.2
12.3
12.4
12.5
11.10
Update
Portfolio/Transcript/Graduation
Checklist/WESTEST
Results/Extracurricular Update
Senior year Checklist – ACT/SAT;
Scholarships; Essays
College Day Prep
 Question to Ask
 Documentation Forms
ACT/SAT/ASVAB/WorkKeys
Test Prep
Senior Project Update -
12.6
12.7
12.8
Scholarship Search
11.9
Review Agriculture/Science/Natural
Resources; Arts/Humanities;
Business/Marketing
Senior Year Orientation
12.1
Interpretation of test
results/WESTEST, Writing
Assessment, (Acuity)
Study Skills Assessment and Plan
Support Services
Support Services – Tutoring, etc.
10.7
The Art of Learning - - Brain
Stretching
A Place to Belong (Clubs, etc.)
Junior Year Orientation
11.1
Filling out a Post-Secondary
Application College/CC
Requesting
References/Recommendations
Post Graduation Action Plan
12.9
Today not Tomorrow Stop Procrastinating
12.10
Military Careers/Exploring
Opportunities
Optional
9.11
Quarter
2
9.12
9.13
9.14
9.15
Optional
10.11
Timeline - - WV Planner
Reality Check/First Report Card
Where to Go; When to Tell - Community Resources
Making and Keeping Friends –
Chicago Peer Pressure High School
Why School? Chicago
10.12
10.13
10.14
10.15
Optional
11.11
Review Engineering/Technical; Health
Science/Human Services
Developing Peer Leadership Chicago
(Exploring Leadership 11) + D98
Critical Thinking Damon
Team Building
11.12
9.16
9.17
11.14
11.15
9.18
9.19
Interest Inventory Roads to Success
9.20
9.21
Programs of Study - - WVDE Site
Career/Technical
Test Taking Skills/Preparing for
Semester Exams - Chicago
Optional
9.22
Quarter
3
9.23
11.20
10.22
Anger Management
10.23
Conflict Resolution
9.24
9.25
11.19
Internet Safety/Social Networking
10.21
10.24
WESTEST 2/Writing Assessment
Test Prep/Understanding Relevance
10.25
12.17
Workplace Behavior - RTS
ACT PLAN Results/World of Work
Academic Success and Failure Chicago
Optional
12.18
Life Plan – Getting to Retirement –
Barb
Update Career Interest
Inventory/Career Plan RTS
Creating Winning Essays – RTS
11.21
Goals Progress –Reread Letter,
Progress Toward Choosing a
Concentration, Checklist
Transcript Review, Update Graduation
Requirement Checklist, AP, EDGE,
Dual Credit
12.19
11.24
11.25
Financial Literacy – Credit Cards
RTS
Financial Literacy – Car Ownership I
– II RTS
Living Expenses – Housing
Expenses and Leases RTS
Checking/Savings Accounts
12.20
FAFSA I How to Complete
Optional
11.23
Post Secondary Planning –
Promise, Job Apps, ASVAB, CC,
Tech Schools
Financial Literacy – Credit and Debt
RTS
12.21
11.22
Update Portfolio – Extracurricular
Activities, Community Service
12.14
12.15
12.16
11.18
10.20
Apprenticeships/Labor Unions
Interview Skills – RTS
11.17
10.19
Communication Skills – Chicago
Completing Job Application
Learning Strategies – Damon
Career Research - - RTS
Resources for Finding Employment,
Volunteer Opportunities, Internship
11.16
10.18
Making Your Resume Shine – WV
Education Planner
12.13
Update Resume – Chicago
Note Taking - Damon Chicago
10.17
12.12
Communication Feelings – Chicago
Improving Organizational Skills –
Chicago
10.16
Rights and Responsibilities – Chicago
(9)
11.13
http://wilderdom.com/games/InitiativeGames.html
How My Grades Affect My Future - GPA, Promise, NCAA Clearinghouse,
Credit Recovery
Decision Making - Roads to Success
Optional
12.11
Optional
12.22
Stress Management Fun – I’m in a
Hurry to Get Things Done
Transcript Portfolio
Update/Graduation Checklist/Draft
Senior Schedule
Designing a Senior Project
FAFSA II
12.23
12.24
Graduation Transcript
Checklist/Portfolio Update
Staying Motivated/Staying on Track
12.25
9.26
9.27
9.28
9.29
9.30
9.31
9.32
Trans-scripting/Looking
Ahead/Scheduling
Educational Choices/Opportunity
Cost - Cost of College, EDGE, Dual
Credit, Financial Aid, AP
Rights/Responsibilities/Entitlements Chicago
Begin Planning Senior Project
10.26
Improving Communication With Parents
10.27
Review for WESTEST 2 Online
Writing Assessment
12.27
11.28
Personal/Group Responsibility;
Cooperative Groups
12.28
Self-Esteem/Self Control
10.29
Risk Taking Behavior
Personal Finance/Budgeting
11.29
10.30
Everybody’s Doing it – Ethical Behavior
I
10.31
Everybody’s Doing it – Ethical Behavior
II
10.32
What Can We Learn From Our Seniors?
Respect for Self and Others
12.26
11.27
WESTEST 2 Writing Assessment
10.28
Safe Dating/Healthy Relationships
Community Service
Relating School to Career
11.26
Quarter
4
9.34
Optional
11.30
11.31
Dealing with Diversity/Global
Awareness Prejudice/Discrimination
10.33
Getting Along with Others—Diversity
9.35
Active Listening—Chicago, Missouri
– Damon
9.36
Assertive vs. Aggressive
Communication/Behavior
Problem Solving
9.37
Coping with Self-Defeating Behavior Il -
10.37
9.38
10.38
Student Led Career Awareness
9.39
11.38
Take a Deep Breath – Stress
management
Finalizing Senior Projects
12.35
Finalizing Senior Projects
12.36
WESTEST Prep
11.39
Work Ethics and Professionalism
12.34
Thinking Like a Genius
11.37
Prepare for WESTEST/Review of Test
Taking Skills
Stress Management
10.39
Student Led Career Awareness
Culminating Project
(Interview Exposition)
11.36
Multiple Intelligences
Read 9th Grade Goals Letter/Self
Evaluate/Write a Do’s/Don’ts of Goal
Attainment to Sophomores
Sophomore Presentations
Do’s and Don’ts or “Work on Senior
Projects”
Optional
12.33
Almost Seniors – Am I Ready?
Chicago
Job Readiness – Chicago
11.35
Learning to Learn
Resume Building
9.40
11.34
10.36
12.31
12.32
11.33
10.35
12.30
Optional
Coping with Self-Defeating Behavior I,
10.34
Make New Friends but Keep the Old
Peanut Activity - Diversity
Optional
Transitioning to from Classroom to
Careers . . . Successful
Communication-Conflict Resolution
Post Graduation Anxiety
12.29
Lifestyles/Careers/Educational
Obtainment Treasurer’s Real Games
11.32
9.33
Work Ethics/Personal Responsibility
– Chicago – Deb Hall
Connecting to Community
Finalizing Senior Projects
12.37
Education after HS- RTS - Evaluating
Programs
Education after HS- RTS - Choosing
a College
Education after HS- RTS – College
Culminating Project Week
College and Workforce survival Tips
12.38
12.39
Living on my Own “Motivating
Without Mom”
School Experience Evaluation/plan
Culminating Project
9.41
(Get a Life)
Update Portfolio, Introduction to
Senior Project
10.40
10.41
9.43
9.44
Research I
12.40
11.41
Education after HS- RTS – College
Research II
12.41
Planning For a Safe Summer - Chicago
10.42
Evaluating the 9th Grade
Experience/Advisee Program
Optional
11.40
(Get a Life II)
How to Meet Service Learning
Self-Evaluation/Setting New Goals
9.42
Culminating Project
11.42
Evaluating LINKS Experience
10.43
11.43
Optional
10.44
Education after HS- RTS – College
Research III
Evaluating Junior Year
Senior Year/LINKS Evaluation
Graduation Readiness
12.42
12.43
Optional
11.44
Survey
Optional
12.44