Counselor Corner

Focus Topics

  • Month of September

    • Relationships, Service and Life Skills

  • Month of October

    • Perseverance, Humor, and Self-Motivation

  • Month of November

    • Positive View of Personal Future, Flexibility, and Love of Learning

  • Month of December

    • Self-Worth, Perceptiveness, Competence, and Independence of Inner Direction School Wide Talent Show

  • Month of January

    • 6th Grade –Career Fair

  • Month of February

    • Preparation for TAKS Testing

  • Relationships

    • Sociability and ability to be a friend, ability to form positive relationships

  • Service

    • Gives of self in service to other have and/or cause

  • Life Skills

    • Uses life skills including good decision-making, assertiveness, and impulse control

  • Humor

    • Has a good sense of humor

  • Perceptiveness

    • Insightful understanding of people and situations

  • Independence Inner Direction

    • Bases choices/decisions on internal evaluation knows how to accomplish their goals-distancing from unhealthy people and situations

  • Self-Worth

    • Feelings of self-worth and self-confidence

  • Competence

    • What we are good at

  • Positive View of Personal Future

    • Expects a positive future

  • Flexibility

    • Can adjust to change can bend as necessary to positively cope with situations

  • Love of Learning

    • Capacity for and connection to learning

  • Self-Motivation

    • Internal initiation and positive motivation from within

  • Perseverance

    • Keeps on despite difficulty, doesn’t give up

  • Creativity

    • Expresses self through artistic endeavor

Helpful Websites

Careers

  • Career Education
    Career sites offer job related information, as well as opportunities to practice such job related activities as interviewing and resume writing.
     

  • Next Vista for Learning
    This is a site where different careers are highlighted and the people are interviewed about their jobs.
     

  • Next Vista For Learning
    If you are interested in finding out about different careers, this is the website to go to!