This document presents lessons involving basic skills and the school counselor. The first lesson focuses on tenets and issues of integration of academic and vocational education. The second lesson focuses on helping school counselors understand different integration models, including their purposes, sources of support, and expected outcomes. The premise of the third lesson is that school counselors need to clarify their role in helping students plan their coursework in a way that ensures their acquisition of the contemporary competencies now collectively referred to as "basic skills." The fourth lesson helps learners investigate why counselors must argue for applied forms of learning which integrate the best of academic and vocational instructional methods. Included with each lesson is information on the justification for the lesson; the expected learner outcome; instructor resources; directions for teaching-learning interaction; debriefing strategies; list of resources; and a brief discussion of an individualized learning plan for learners studying this content in an individualized program. (ABL)