Anson Jones Middle and STEM Magnet Counseling Department provides a comprehensive and developmental guidance and counseling program for 6th through 8th grade students. Services are delivered through the four components: classroom guidance lessons, responsive services, individual planning, and system support. We focus on the four content areas of interpersonal effectiveness, intrapersonal effectiveness, personal health and safety, and post-secondary planning and career readiness which develop student skills.
Your School Counselor's Job is too...
- Manage a comprehensive counseling program by assessing student needs, planning and delivering services, and evaluating student outcomes.
- Teach guidance curriculum using the four skill goals.
- Provide brief counseling to help students whose developmental needs, personal concerns, or challenges affect their continued educational, career, personal, or social development.
- Consult with parents, teachers, administrators, and community members regarding student concerns.
- Coordinate with school and community personnel to provide resources and referrals to support students’ development.
- Interpret test results.
- Provide leadership for the counseling program and ensure diverse needs are met.
- Advocate for student’s needs on campus and for the program as a whole.
- Attend professional development to improve competence in job-related performance standards.
Individual Planning
School counselors help students set academic and career goals so that they are successful during school. This might mean helping students develop SMART goals to improve academic performance, examining interests and abilities as it relates to careers, interpreting test scores, or discussing course options.
System Support
School counselors spend time planning and managing services that indirectly benefit students.
- Parent Cafecitos
- Parent Education
- Parent & Teacher Consultation
- Collecting and analyzing data on student success and outcomes to improve services
- Professional development
- Campus-Wide initiatives such as Red Ribbon Week, No Name-Calling Week, Purple Up for Military Kids, etc.
Guidance Curriculum
School Counselors teach life skill lessons to all students using the TEA approved Four Skill Goals.
- Intrapersonal Relationships
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Post-secondary Planning and Career Readiness
- Personal Health and Safety
Responsive Services
Anson Jones Middle and STEM Magnet Professional School Counselors are ready to listen and walk students through challenging situations using counseling theories and creative techniques in brief individual and small group sessions. We also offer crisis counseling and provide community referrals.
How can I see my counselor?
- Self-referral
- Teacher referral
- Parent referral
- Administrative referral
*Consent (permission) will be obtained from the parent or legal guardian when a student needs to be seen regularly.