Lead Counselor, Goodson Middle School

Lead Counselor, Goodson Middle School,  School Year Qualifications

• Master’s degree from a recognized, accredited college or university, with a valid Texas Certificate as a Professional School Counselor;
• A minimum of two (2) years of successful experience as a classroom teacher is required;
• Valid Texas school counselor certificate;
• Knowledge of counseling procedures, student appraisal, and career development;
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills;
• Visionary leadership in public schools to work with faculties, families, and communities of the 21st Century.

Probationary/Term

Contract:

Middle School 200 days $68,670 (IA-3). (Years of teaching experience will be considered when determining starting salary.) Salary Range (based on experience) as set by the Board of Trustees. Candidates for counselor positions may receive credit for certified teaching experience for salary calculation purposes.

• Plan, organize, implement, and deliver structured group lessons according to the district’s guidance curriculum to improve students’ interpersonal and intrapersonal effectiveness, personal health and safety, post‑secondary planning and readiness, and other developmental needs.
• Ability to instruct students and manage their behavior.
• Ability to present information in one‑on‑one, small group, and large group situations to students, parents or guardians, and district staff.
• Teach the school guidance curriculum components using effective instructional strategies and planned structured groups considering diverse student populations and needs for differentiated instruction.
• Work with students, staff, parents or guardians, and the community to identify priorities where students will be served through the guidance curriculum component. Collaborate across curricular areas to integrate guidance lessons into the content area curriculum.
• Create a balanced curriculum by using well‑planned and intentional activities and materials, incorporating guest speakers, and offering engaging delivery techniques, including technology tools.

• Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to respond to problematic or critical incidents to support students and offer services in time of need.
• Use preventive activities to remove barriers that interfere with a student’s educational, career, personal, and social development.
• Implement remediation practices to assist students in coping with problem situations or unwise choices. Identify precipitating and antecedent factors, effective and ineffective approaches to dealing with the circumstances, and provide feedback to guide future decisions.
• Use specialized skills to support students in crisis situations requiring an immediate response. Maintain a healthy and safe school environment by collaborating with district staff, parents or guardians, and local officials.
• Provide continued support to students in need through individual counseling, small group counseling, consultation, or referral to services outside the school or district.
• Serve as an impartial, non‑reporting resource for interpersonal conflicts and discourse involving two or more students, including accusations of bullying.

• Create school counseling services that are developmental and age‑appropriate and provide information or literature that highlights related topics to students, teachers, and administrators.
• Assist individual students and their parents or guardians in monitoring their academic, career, personal, and social development as they progress in school.
• Act as a student advocate, leader, collaborator, and systems change agent. Advocate for a school environment that acknowledges and respects diversity and ensures equitable access and placement in courses and programs for minority, disenfranchised, homeless, and other special populations.
• Interpret standardized test results, offer career development activities, provide strategies for grade‑level transitions, and guide students in individual goal setting and planning, including creating and reviewing personal graduation plans and providing information about…