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r Discipline Safe Schools
Counseling Pregnancy Programslauralea.bau
er_at_tea.state.tx.us(512) 463-9073
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Model Comprehensive, Developmental
Guidance Counseling Program

• Texas Education Agency

2006-2007 www.tea.state.tx.us/guidance
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• Texas Education Agency

2006-2007 www.tea.state.tx.us/guidance
S T A T E L A W TEC 33.005, 33.006, 33.007,
21.003, 21.356
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TEC 33.005. DEVELOPMENTAL GUIDANCE AND
COUNSELING PROGRAMS.
A school counselor shall work with the school
faculty and staff, students, parents, and the
community to plan, implement, and evaluate a
developmental guidance and counseling program.
The counselor shall design the program to include

• a guidance curriculum to help students develop
  their full educational potential, including the
  student's interests and career objectives
• a responsive services component to intervene on
  behalf of any student whose immediate personal
  concerns or problems put the student's continued
  educational, career, personal, or social
  development at risk
• an individual planning system to guide a student
  as the student plans, monitors, and manages the
  student's own educational, career, personal, and
  social development and
• system support to support the efforts of
  teachers, staff, parents, and other members of
  the community in promoting the educational,
  career, personal, and social development of
  students.

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Order Form Attached or download a free copy at
http//www.tea.state.tx.us/guidance/ProgramModel.h
tml
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• John Lucas
• Nationally Certified Counselor
• Texas Certified Counselor
• School G C 4 years
• Retired, TEA Director of G C 38 years

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Counselors in Schools
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State LawTexas Education Code

• TEC 21.003. CERTIFICATION REQUIRED. (a) A
  person may not be employed as a teacher, teacher
  intern or teacher trainee, librarian, educational
  aide, administrator, or counselor by a school
  district unless the person holds an appropriate
  certificate or permit issued as provided by
  Subchapter B.
• (b) A person may not be employed by a school
  district as an audiologist, occupational
  therapist, physical therapist, physician, nurse,
  school psychologist, associate school
  psychologist, social worker, or speech language
  pathologist unless the person is licensed by the
  state agency that licenses that profession. A
  person may perform specific services within those
  professions for a school district only if the
  person holds the appropriate credential from the
  appropriate state agency.
• Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., chi. 260, 1,
  off. May 30, 1995

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C E R T I F I C A T I O N

• Masters Degree in Education
• Specialty in Counseling
• Classroom Teaching (2 years) and
• TExES - Exit Level Exam for Counselors.

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Model Comprehensive, Developmental Guidance
Counseling Program
Historical Developmental

• Planned, based on priorities
• Preventive and crisis counseling
• Group guidance counseling
• Consistent service to all students

• Reactive
• Crisis counseling only
• Individual guidance counseling only
• Uneven service to students

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Historical Developmental

• Emphasis on program
• Developmental curriculum
• Student goal attainment oriented
• Designed program
• Evaluated and improved, based on evaluation
  results
• Counselors all school staff

• Emphasis on services
• Information dissemination
• Clerical/administrative task oriented
• Unstructured program
• Unmeasurable
• Counselors only

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Job Description
http//www.tea.state.tx.us/guidance/evaljobdesc.do
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Duties of a School Counselor

• Counsel Students to fully develop each students
  academic, career, personal, and social abilities
• Consult with school staff, parents and other
  community members
• Interpret Data (test and assessment)
• Coordinate people and resources
• Deliver classroom guidance activities
  AND

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Duties of a School Counselor

• Plan, implement and evaluate the comprehensive,
  developmental guidance counseling program and

• Advise school staff conducting lessons based on
  the schools guidance curriculum.

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Success of Guidance and Counseling in Texas
Schools
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COUNT OF TX. COUNSELORS

• 11,073
•            
• AVERAGE SALARY
• 51,841 plus Salary/fringe
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Other local budget, program materials, training,
etc.
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2 0 0 5 2 0 0 67,956 CAMPUSES (INCLUDING 313
CHARTERS)

• students of of
• Campuses
  Counselors
• High School 1,223,781 1,687 3,875
• Junior High 226,409 416 640
• Middle School 732,120 1,160 2,008
• Elementary 2,242,398 4,224 4,191
• Elem. Secondary 80,864 469
  359
• Total 4,505,572 7,956 11,073

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2003-2004
State Counselors Students
Ratio California 6,640 6,413,862 966 to
one Florida 5,772 2,587,682 448 to one New
York 6,440 2,864,775 445 to one Texas 9,937
4,331,751 436 to one
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Evaluation of Counselors in SchoolsAssessment
Tool on TEA websitehttp//www.tea.state.tx.us/gu
idance Required by State Law, TEC 21.356
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Evaluation of Counselors in Schoolshttp//www.te
a.state.tx.us/guidance

• Domain 1 Program Management
• Domain 2 Guidance
• Domain 3 Counseling
• Domain 4 Consultation
• Domain 5 Coordination
• Domain 6 Student Assessment
• Domain 7 Professional Behavior
• Domain 8 Professional Standards

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In order to preserve the academic day, team
planning is necessary when delivering the
developmental guidance and counseling program.
The counselors primary focus is to facilitate
instruction by removing impediments to student
learning
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Guidance Counseling Program
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Comprehensive, developmental guidance and
counseling programs are vital to the achievement
of excellence in education for all students. The
Texas Comprehensive, Developmental Guidance and
Counseling Program is an integral part of each
schools total educational program
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Guidance Counseling Program
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The counselors primary focus is to facilitate
instruction by removing impediments to student
learning. It is developmental by design and
includes sequential activities organized and
implemented by certified school counselors with
the support of teachers, administrators,
students, and parents.
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Guidance Counseling Program
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Reference Handouts

• Excerpt from Program Development Guide,
• Page 17 Four Components of a Comprehensive,
  Developmental Guidance and Counseling Program

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Reference Handouts

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• Page 53 Guidance Content Areas and Skill
  Levels

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• Excerpt from Program Development Guide,
• Page 9-10 Characteristics of High Low
  Performing
• Programs

Reference Handouts
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