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Mission/Vision
Mission/Vision
The mission of the Graham ISD Comprehensive Developmental Guidance and Counseling Program is to help all students develop the academic, personal/social, college and career readiness skills by providing exceptional educational opportunities where all students are challenged to become responsible citizens, successfully pursuing personal and career goals.
All Graham ISD students will excel in meeting their fullest potential as productive members of society by exhibiting the qualities of competency, responsibility, resiliency, and exhibiting consideration for others.
Purpose/Definition
Purpose/Definition
The Graham Independent School District Guidance and Counseling Department will provide a comprehensive developmental school counseling program that is implemented by Certified School Counselors, at the campus level, PK - 12. Graham ISD uses the Texas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling Programs 5th edition (TEC §33.003 - 33.007) as its framework.
The program provides a systematic, planned approach for helping all students acquire and apply basic life skills by making optimal use of the special knowledge and skills of professional school counselors. The foundation of the program is to provide developmentally appropriate assistance for all students, and at the same time provide special assistance to those who need it.
The school counselor responsibilities/roles described in The Texas Model addresses the whole child to maximize academic achievement, social and emotional development, and post-secondary college and career readiness.
The Graham ISD School Counseling Program on each campus supports the educational, career, personal, and social development of all students PK - 12, and is designed to include the following components: Guidance Curriculum, Individual Planning, Responsive Services, and System Support.
Guidance Curriculum
School counselors provide classroom guidance lessons that facilitate student growth and development in the areas of educational, career, personal, and social development.
Individual Planning
The individual planning component guides students to plan, monitor, and manage their own educational, career, personal and social development. Each student is provided with necessary steps toward his/her established goals.
Responsive Service
In this component, school counselors intervene with or on behalf of those students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grades whose personal circumstances, concerns, or problems are threatening to interfere with or are interfering with their healthy educational, personal, social, career and/or educational development.
System Support
The System Support component describes management activities which assure the delivery of a high quality school counseling program, and service which indirectly benefit students by supporting other programs.
Philosophy/Rationale
Philosophy/Rationale
The guidance program is an integral part of the overall educational program and serves as a critical link to the instructional program and the community. It provides developmental opportunities and experiences as it addresses the student development areas of learning to live, learning to learn, and learning to work.
Rationale
Rationale
The guidance program is an integral part of the overall educational program and serves as a critical link to the instructional program and the community. It provides developmental opportunities and experiences as it addresses the student development areas of learning to live, learning to learn, and learning to work.
Program Goals
Program Goals
Goal One: Foster knowledge, skills, and attitudes across five areas of social and emotional competence to promote the portrait of a graduate
Goal One: Foster knowledge, skills, and attitudes across five areas of social and emotional competence to promote the portrait of a graduate
Objective 1: Implement district wide SEL curriculum on a monthly/bimonthly/weekly basis
Strategy 1: Utilize Second Step & Core Essentials to create lesson plans. (Elementary)
Strategy 2: Provide topic specific, age-appropriate lessons to improve social and emotional competence. (Secondary)
Objective 2: Implement small group counseling and prevention education lessons.
Strategy 1: Identify students to meet at designated times and meet as needed for each student.
Strategy 2: Coordinate with campus staff to determine needs of the campus for prevention lessons.
Strategy 3: Create and distribute via email a needs assessment to all students. (Secondary)
Goal Two: Align counselor key work to college readiness, industry certification awareness, and military opportunities. :
Goal Two: Align counselor key work to college readiness, industry certification awareness, and military opportunities. :
Objective 1: Students will explore different career opportunities that are available to them.
Strategy 1: Promote college and career awareness through guidance lessons and grade-level activities.
Strategy 2: ACT/SAT/TSIA participation (Secondary)
Objective 2: Students will enroll in a coherent sequence of courses.
Strategy 1: Educate students about Programs of Study/Coherent Sequence of courses and its effect on graduation with endorsement. (Secondary)
Strategy 2: Assist students with attainment of industry based certifications (Secondary)
Objective 3: Collaborate with armed forces representatives to increase military engagement.
Strategy 1: Promote student involvement in ASVAB testing (Secondary)
Goal Three: Academic Achievement
Goal Three: Academic Achievement
Objective 1: Ensure that students identified as At-Risk or those identified with a learning disability receive appropriate accommodations based on their individual needs.
Strategy 1: Collaborate with teachers to identify students and follow up with them to offer support.
Four Components of a Comprehensive, Developmental Guidance & Counseling Program
Four Components of a Comprehensive, Developmental Guidance & Counseling Program
Expectations/Assumptions of a Graham ISD Counselor
Expectations/Assumptions of a Graham ISD Counselor
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