The purpose of the guidance curriculum component is to help all students develop basic life skills. In the state of Texas, seven areas have been identified in this component:
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The purpose of the
responsive services component is to intervene on behalf of those students whose immediate personal concerns or problems put their continued personal-social, career, and/or educational development at risk. Topics of priority in the state of Texas include:
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The purpose of the individual planning component is to guide all students as they plan, monitor, and manage their own educational, career, and personal-social development. Through the individual planning system, students can:
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The system support component describes services and management activities which indirectly benefit students. These services include:
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Self-Confidence Developement
Motivation to Achieve
Decision-making, Goal-Setting, and Problem-solving skills
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Communication Skills
Cross-cultural Effectiveness
Responsible Behavior |
Academic Success
Adolescent/Child Suicide
Child Abuse and Neglect
School Drop-outs
Severe Stress
Substance Abuse
School-age Pregnancy
Gang Pressures/Involvement
Harassment Issues |
Set challenging educational, career and personal-social goals that are based on self-knowledge and information about school, the world of work, and their society;
Make plans for achieving short, intermediate, and long-term goals;
Analyze how their strengths and weaknesses enchance or hinder the achievement of their goals;
Assess their current progress toward their goals;
Make decisions that reflect their plans. |
Consultation with teachers;
Support for the parent education program and community relations efforts;
Participation in the campus-based school improvement plans and goals;
Assisting with the implementation of the state and local standardized testing program;
Cooperation with relevant research projects;
Provision of input for the student's perspective to policy-makers and instructional/curriculum planners. |
