High School Counselor

HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELOR role at Lawton Public Schools

Serve as liaison between parents and school personnel.

• Hold a valid Oklahoma Secondary Counselors certificate
• Minimum Qualifications:
  
  To effectively work with staff members to counseling students.

• Clearly understands and adheres to the School Counselor Code of Ethics and Oklahoma Accreditation Standard VI.
• Enroll students, using knowledge of learning abilities and adolescent development, while preparing them for academic success and developing an appreciation for lifelong learning.
• Facilitate in course and subject selection in relationship to their ability and quality of school achievement while setting academic and career goals.
• Serves as liaison between parents and school personnel and services.
• Understands and communicates how to successfully plan, prepare for and enter post-secondary education and/or employment by forming tentative career goals and implement strategies to achieve them.
• Guides students in their participation in school and community activities.
• Expand study and test-taking skill opportunities for state and national tests for all students.
• Works with students to learn and practice skills and techniques for decision-making and problem-solving in school and in the community that support positive health and safety choices.
• Demonstrate, examine and analyze how interpersonal communication affects relationships with peers and adults.
• Serves as member of the school’s Counselor Advisory Committee which creates and maintains annual documentation of school counseling services.
• Constructs a specific school program and prepares a clearly articulated school counseling program with supporting documentation.
• Other duties as may be assigned.

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Education and Training
• Industries:
  Education Administration Programs