Counseling and Students Services at Dalian American International School provides social and emotional, academic, and learning support for all students. Students are guided through a year-to-year guidance program that includes items such as: social and emotional learning, academic success, and college and career readiness.
Comprehensive, developmental approach engages all learners to enhance their intellect, character, health and cultural awareness to participate in the global community.
The Dalian American International School Counseling and Student Services assists students in acquiring the skills necessary for personal and school success while guiding them through exploring transition items that parallel with their individual interests, strengths, and goals.
Counseling at DAIS encompasses more than college and career readiness. Counseling at DAIS is focused on providing students with the opportunity to develop essential skills that will aid their growth and development through high school and beyond. Students are engaged in a year-to-year program based on the international school counseling framework focused on guiding students in honing skills needed for school and life.
We gain a full understanding of our students as we navigate them through understanding themselves, their identity and how they can make meaning connections that will aid them not only in school but as they transition to colleges and universities globally and beyond.
College and career readiness is one piece of a larger puzzle that we work on together with students and their families in the hopes of building pathways to future destinations. Knowing our students well, through advisory groups, individual meetings, after school programming, and individual sessions provides us data that is used to adjust and modify a student's development profile which we use to support life transitions to colleges and universities and beyond.
College and Career Readiness is a key component of our life transition model we utilized at Dalian American International School. There are over 29,000 colleges and universities globally, each providing differing kinds of experiences for their students. Making an informed decision is as important as giving students the opportunity to practice skills needed to direct their professional life's trajectory. At DAIS, our goal is to support you and your child through the decision-making process and help facilitate a transition to a college or university where your child will thrive.
Comprehensive School Counselor is a key resource supporting your child’s developmental journey that includes college and career readiness, social and emotional learning, and responsive services. Comprehensive School Counselor is an advocate for students as they move through our programming at Dalian American International School.
With the support and guidance of our Comprehensive School Counseling Team students will:
Mr. Gould has considerable working experience within Counseling in international schools in China. He has spent the last 11 years building Counseling Programs and Students Services across multiple international schools throughout China. He spent 2014-2019 working at DAIS as the Director of Counseling and is thrilled to rejoin a wonderful comprehensive K-12 educational institution like DAIS.
Ms. Kelly Zhao earned her Master of Arts in Education from the University of York and holds a Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree from the University of Toronto. Her professional journey includes her role as an International Education Counselor, where she gained valuable experience in supporting students and navigating the complexities of international education.
