• Provide classroom guidance lessons

• Help promote Social Emotional Learning in the classroom

• Meet with children individually and in small groups

• Promote positive attitudes

• Discuss feelings and model appropriate communication

• Work with staff to find ways to improve academic and behavioral performance

• Career education

• Gauge school climate and the needs of student support on campus

• 504 Coordination

• Create and monitor behavior management plans

• Link families to community resources/agencies

• Teach how to maintain healthy friendships

• Teach conflict resolution

• Meeting with students; parents and/or facilitating parent-teacher conferences

• Help people, help themselves

• And more...

The Aldine ISD counseling department follows the Texas Comprehensive developmental Guidance and counseling program which is an integral part of the total educational program. It provides a systematic, planned approach for helping all students acquire and apply basic life skills by making optimal use of special knowledge and skills of school counselors.

This program is based on four components, which are as follows:

• Guidance Curriculum helps students acquire age-appropriate knowledge and skills within the scope of the following content areas: self confidence, development, motivation to achieve, decision making, goal setting, planning, problem solving skills, interpersonal effectiveness, communication skills, cross-cultural effectiveness and responsible behavior.

• Responsive Service intervenes on behalf of those students whose immediate personal concerns or problems put their continued personal-social, career and/or educational development at risk.

• Individual Planning guides all students as they plan, monitor, and manage their own educational career and personal social development.

• System Support describes services and management activities which indirectly benefit students.