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Services Offered:
Classroom Guidance
Communication with parents, students, faculty and staff
Group Counseling
Implementation of Special
Programs
Individual Counseling
Mentors
New Student Support
Career Awareness
Responsive Services
Individual Student Planning
Resources:
A Parent’s Guide to Surviving the 5th
and 6th Grade Years
Counseling
Resources
Student Assistance Referral
Surviving Your
5th and 6th Grade Year at
SMS
Prepare for Success Brochure (for 5th Grade Parents)(en
español)
Suggested
Reading Resources
Community Resources and Referral Information
Links:
Duke University Talent Identification
Program
Classroom guidance
Various
topics are presented to students depending on need of students and
recommendations by teachers. Possible topics include: study skills,
time management, test taking strategies, stress management, goal setting,
careers, self-esteem, peer relationships, conflict resolution, teamwork,
communication, stereotyping, problem solving, decision making,
responsibility, cliques, values, peer pressure, family, alcohol, drugs,
tobacco.
Communication with parents, students, faculty,
and staff
Counselor’s
Corner
-
Counselors are
available in the cafeteria during lunches once a week to answer students’
questions, give information, or set up appointments
Display guidance materials in the hallway
Counseling website with resources for parents, students, faculty and
staff
Group counseling
Students can be referred by teachers or parents by completing
a student assistance referral form
Beta Tau Mu - a program for male students that focuses on
fostering a successful transition into productive young men and building
positive relationships (Facilitator: D. Edgerson)
Express Yourself - a
group to help learn social skills and how to meet new friends
(Facilitator: C. V. Smith and H. McLean)
Building Healthy Relationships -
a boys and girls
group that focuses on strengthening students’ social and anger management
skills (Facilitator: Focusing Families)
Girl Power - a social and support group for girls
during lunch (Facilitator: C. V. Smith
and H. McLean)
Good Grief - a support group for students who have lost a
parent or sibling (Facilitator: C. V. Smith and H. McLean)
Red Hots - a program that focuses on helping
students handle their anger, make healthy choices, and resist negative peer
pressure (Facilitator: C. V. Smith and H. McLean)
Splits - a support group
for students dealing with divorce (Facilitator: C. V. Smith
and H. McLean)
Building Blocks - a
study skills and support group for academic needs (Facilitator: C. V.
Smith and H. McLean)
*If you would like more information about any of these groups, please
contact H. McLean or C.V. Smith at (936) 931-9103.
Implementation of special programs
Duke
Talent Identification Program -
Coordinators:
H. McLean and C.V. Smith
ESL Program - Coordinator: David
Edgerson/Wende Reed
504
Program -
Coordinator:
Tracy Webb
Student Support Team - Coordinators:
H. McLean and C.V. Smith
After School Programs - Coordinator:
C. V. Smith
Gifted and Talented (GT) Program - Coordinators:
H. McLean and C.V. Smith
Individual counseling
Academic
and/or personal counseling
Mentors
Staff
or community member
is assigned to student to help guide with academic and behavioral concerns
New Student Support
New
Student
Lunch
- students
new to Waller ISD are invited to a lunch with the
SMS principals and
counselors hosted by LIFT students
New Student Scavenger Hunt - students new to
Waller
ISD are taken on a scavenger hunt hosted by LIFT students
Schultz Video
Tour
Career Awareness
Our focus
at this age level is to help make students aware of different career
opportunities available and
how education correlates to future success
Responsive Services
Responding to the needs of students who been involved in or touched
by crisis and/or traumatic events
Individual Student Planning
(Student Support Team)
Working with teachers and parents to implement interventions that
would help students be more academically successful |
