Welcome to Northview High School

1. Welcome to Northview High School

2. Guidance Services • Academic • College/ Post-Secondary • Personal/Social • How to make appointments • Confidentiality

3. Employability Skills4Success

4. Technology Literacy The ability to understand, use, and adapt to new technology concepts, systems, and operations. • Collaboration & Global Thinking The ability to collaborate and work as a member of a team in order to achieve a common goal. This involves knowing your strengths and recognizing strengths in others, 2) how to take others perspectives, and 3) how to resolve conflict. • Communication The ability to effectively communicate a message or an idea to someone else through verbal and non-verbal means. Included within this is the ability to know how and when to listen to others’ communication and to us communication to build interpersonal relationships with others. • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving The ability to generate innovative and creative solutions to issues of interest through the gathering, analysis, and evaluation of relevant information. This includes thinking through 1) how possible solutions fit into and affect a larger system, 2) the validity of information and claims that others present, and 3) the potential consequences of proposed solutions.

5. Flexibility & Adaptability The ability and self-motivation to continuously learn to respond to changes and to increase one’s understanding. Included within this is being open-minded to different viewpoints and ways of doing things and continuous reflection on one’s own knowledge base. • Ethical Citizenship The ability to act in a caring and principled manner (e.g. – with integrity, honesty, respect, and discernment) in order to promote the common-good of one’s community. Included within this finding balance between attending to one’s own needs (e.g. – spiritual, health, work, etc.) and the needs of others. • Personal Accountability The ability to productively work toward a goal with a positive attitude. Included within this is being reliable and dependable (e.g. being present and punctual) and having the confidence to take risks and hold oneself and others accountable for their work.

6. Skills4Success • Students should go to nvps.net/studentportal to access their e-mail accounts. E-mail account isfirstname.lastname@student.nvps.net. Full first name.

9. *Visual, Performing, & Applied Technology (VPA) ART: ENGLISH: APPLIED TECH.: COMPUTER: Intro to Art Communications Intro. To Tech Graphic Design Arts & Crafts Speech Int. to Eng. & Arch. Drafting Web Page Design 3D Sculpt. Theatre Arts Arch. Graphics I – V Multimedia Productions Drawing Rhetoric Electronics Adobe Photoshop Painting Eng. Graphics I – VI Visual Basic Express Inter. Design Wood Tech. I, II & III MUSIC: Photography Residential Struc. I & II Music Appreciation I/ 2 Adv. Art 1 & 2 Band, Choir & Guitar Fashion Design MISC – Yearbook Various KCTC Programs Computer Electives: Microsoft Office Graphic Design Web Page Development Multimedia Productions Visual Basic Express Adobe Photoshop Yearbook Junior Gateways Int. to Eng. & Arch. Drafting Intro to Technology Math Related Credits: Accounting Advanced Accounting Physics Financial Literacy Residential Structures I/II Wood Tech I, II, III

11. Standardized Tests – PSAT/SAT • 9th Grade - PSAT 9 – April, 2016 • Preparation for SAT test Junior year • Test Prep - https://collegereadiness.collegeboard.org/psat-8-9 • 10th Grade - PSAT 10 • 11th Grade - MME • Includes SAT – Used for college admissions

13. Steps to Academic Success • Attendance/ Tardies • Communicating with teachers • Planner/ Organization • Listen to announcements nvps.net • GPA calculator • PSAT/9 – April, 2016 • StudentVue

14. School Involvement • Join a sport or club • Peer Listeners • Embrace Diversity

16. What You Do Here Is Important • GVSU App • https://www.gvsu.edu/cms3/assets/7A73662B-B480-A890-E6EAD741C026DD0D/undergrad_application_2012-2013.pdf

17. StudentVue • http://student.nvps.net/

18. Family Connection