Individual Student Planning consists of activities that help all students plan, monitor, and manage their own learning as well as their personal and career development. Within this component, students evaluate their educational, occupational, and personal goals and plans. The activities in this component are counselor planned and directed. The activities are generally delivered on an individual basis.

Individual Planning is implemented through the Personal Learning Plan in grades 4-12 and includes such strategies as:

Individual Appraisal: Counselors, working with students, analyze and evaluate students' abilities interests, skills and achievements. Test results/data are the basis for developing immediate and long-range plans for students.

Individual Advisement: Counselors, working with students, use personal-social, educational, career and labor market information in planning personal, educational and occupational goals.

Placement: Counselors assist students in making transitions from grade to grade, school to work or post-secondary education/training.