Counseling Department
Our Mission
The Southside Independent School District Counseling Department will provide a comprehensive developmental school counseling program that is implemented by Certified School Counselors, at the campus level, PK - 12.
Southside uses as it’s framework the Texas Model for Comprehensive School Counseling Programs 5th edition (TEC §33.003 - 33.007) The 10 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.
CoMPONENTS
The Southside 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 in four curricular content areas: Intrapersonal Effectiveness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Post-Secondary Education and Career Readiness, and Personal Health and Safety.
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.
Content Areas
Intrapersonal Effectiveness
Positive student self-concept
Effective executive functioning skills
Appropriate behavior to the situation and environment
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Effective interactions with diverse populations
Effective and appropriate communication skills
Recognition of personal boundaries, individual rights and privacy needs of others
Effective conflict resolution skills
Development of healthy relationships
Graduation Requirements and Post Secondary Information
Motivation to succeed in personal endeavors
Demonstration of career exploration skills
Possession of the knowledge and skills to gather information for the purpose of postsecondary education and career planning
Demonstration of awareness of the importance of postsecondary education
Understanding of the relationship of academics to the world of work and to life at home and in the community
Personal Health and Safety
Incorporation of wellness practices into daily living
Demonstration of resilience and positive coping skills
Possession of assertiveness skills necessary for personal protection
Roles of a Professional School Counselor
The following eight domains constitute the roles of the professional school counselor: