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Planning for Life After High School

As part of the comprehensive guidance plan at Newberg High School, this handbook has been prepared by the Counseling Department to aid students in the process of choosing their path after their graduation from Newberg High School. We encourage you to use it as a starting place to help guide you on this journey.

Each student needs to select the most appropriate path for him/her based on career interests, learning style, finances, learning environment, location, course and program offerings, and other factors. Each student (and family) will determine her/his own priorities. Typical education/training options include:

  • apprenticeship
  • technical school
  • on-the-job training
  • military training
  • community colleges
  • four-year colleges/universities.

This journey starts with the student participating in a self-evaluation: What are my primary skills and abilities? What are my most important interests and values? Of my wide range of abilities and interests, which ones do I wish to incorporate into my work, and which ones will be part of my family/leisure/community life? What is my most effective learning style? And, more specifically in regard to the learning environment there are several considerations: size of school, location, cost, major fields, campus environment, financial aid, selection criteria, ROTC, athletics, and more.

Throughout the handbook we will provide addresses for websites that are helpful in the decision-making process. These Internet sites are invaluable in helping the student research a wide variety of options and issues. If you do not have access to a computer with Internet capabilities we can arrange for a school computer to be used. If you are not comfortable doing online research there are people at the school that can assist with that process.

This planning process is an important part of our responsibility at Newberg High School and it is one that we hope you will enjoy as much as we do. It is exciting and not always predictable. We look forward to working with you throughout this process.