School Counselor Roles and Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of a school counselor is to counsel students to fully develop each student’s academic, career, personal, and social abilities (2 TEC §33.006).

• Professional Domains & PSC competencies
  
• Evaluation

• Time tracking & documentation

• Ethics

Implementation Cycle & Program Design

The Program Implementation Cycle, introduces a process for tailoring the program model to suit local needs. The program implementation cycle requires five separate steps of organizing, planning, designing, implementing, and evaluating (Texas Education Agency, 2018, p. 35). 

• Program design: tools and templates

• Data Sources & Strategies

• SMART Goals

• Working Within MTSS

Service Delivery Components

School counselors support the educational, career, personal, and social development of all students through the four school counseling program service delivery components of Guidance Curriculum, Individual Planning, Responsive Services, and System Support (TEC §33.005).

• Individual Planning
  CCMR & Goal-Setting
  Effective Advising
  
• Guidance
  
• Responsive Services
  Preventive
  Remedial
  Crisis

• System Support
• High School Graduation Forms

Legal Updates, Advocacy & Professional Learning

This section includes information on legal and legislative updates, all kinds of advocacy, and ways you can increase your professional learning.

• Legal briefs

• Board Policies of interest (FFEA)

• Advocacy Days & position papers

• State Mandates

• Research

• PD (TCA/TSCA Conf)

• TSCA Lunch & Learn
  
  
• 6th Edition of the Texas Model