TCC co-sponsored a high school counselor seminar for the ACT Company Workshop on November 24, in the Student Center, room 220.
Fred Alexander, regional director for Arkansas and Louisiana, was the presenter at the seminar. The objectives discussed were to present the Texas and national test score trends and provide copies to each participant, to review the similarities and differences of the ACT and SAT and provide participants with ACT/SAT equivalency tables, to demonstrate the ACT Assessment’s unique uses for the student in credit by examination, to demonstrate interpretive techniques with the ACT Interest Inventory and profile report for student academic/career planning, the implications of recent legislation and budget cuts on student financial aid, to review ACT’s student financial aid counselor support materials and need analysis forms, and to present a career planning program for helping counselors involve students, parents, teachers, administrators and the community.
All area high school counselors were invited to attend, and 15 counselors attended. TCC hosted a lunch and a program for the high school counselors in the afternoon.