Welcome to R. Gonzalez Elementary
Counseling Department

STAFF
   
Carmen Jimenez  Natasha Caballero

Counselor
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Counseling Assistant
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Mission:

To inspire and increase students' academic achievement, while meeting their social-emotional needs.

Vision:

Gonzalez Elementary students will acquire academic, career, personal and social development skills to successfully manage their lives as healthy and responsible  students who respect themselves and others.

 

WISD Student Support Services 

GUIDANCE & COUNSELING

The Weslaco ISD guidance and counseling department follows the Texas Comprehensive Developmental Guidance and Counseling Program, which is an integral part of the total educational program. It provides a systematic, planned approach for helping all students acquire and apply basic life skills by making optimal use of special knowledge and skills of school counselors.

 

This program is based on four components, which are as follows:

Guidance Curriculum-the purpose of the guidance curriculum is to help students acquire age-appropriate knowledge and skills within the scope of the following content areas: self confidence, development, motivation to achieve, decision making, goal setting, planning, problem solving skills, interpersonal effectiveness, and responsible behavior.

 

Responsive Services-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.

 

Individual Planning- the purpose of the individual planning system is to guide all students as they plan, monitor, and manage their own educational career and personal social development.

 

Systems Support-this component describes services and management activities which indirectly benefit students.

The WISD Guidance & Counseling/Social Work mission is to implement a comprehensive developmental guidance and counseling program for our students in grades Pre-K - 12 promoting student success through focus on academic achievement, prevention, and intervention activities, advocacy and social/emotional and career development to meet the needs of the students and community of WISD.

The comprehensive development guidance and counseling program model is embedded into the WISD academic curriculum and covers these strands:

  • Self-knowledge and acceptance

  • Interpersonal and communication skills

  • Conflict resolution

  • Decision making/problem solving

  • Motivation to achieve

  • Goal setting

  • Career planning


 

We encourage parents to make an appointment with your child's counselor to view the guidance curriculum and discuss what you can do together to create the most successful educational experience possible

 

Issues that may be addressed by School Counselor and District Licensed Professional Counselors:

School adjustment

Deployment and separation

Reunion adjustment

Sibling and parent-child communication

Behavioral concerns

Fear, grief and loss

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON COUNSELING SERVICES CONTACT:  

Carmen Jimenez

(956) 969-6760 Ext. 38262

cjimenez@wisd.us