High School Counselor

Primary Purpose

Plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive program of guidance to school assigned, including counseling services, in accordance with TEC 33.005. Provide a proactive, developmental guidance program to encourage all students to maximize personal growth and development of academic, career, personal and social abilities. This will be accomplished through a variety of approaches including, but not limited to, guidance, responsive services, and individual planning in order to facilitate and support students in reaching their maximum potential.

Qualifications:

* Master's Degree in Counseling and Guidance, with TEA public school counselor certification

* Minimum of 3 years teaching experience, one of which is at a secondary level preferred

Special Knowledge/

Skills:

Knowledge of counseling procedures, student appraisal, and career development

Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

Ability to instruct students and manage their behavior in classroom setting

Ability to present information in one-to-one, small group, and large group situations to students, parents, and staff

Major Responsibilities and Duties

Guidance Curriculum

* Plan and conduct structured group lessons to deliver district's guidance curriculum to improve students' interpersonal and intrapersonal effectiveness, personal health and safety, post-secondary planning and readiness, and other developmental needs. Collaborate with teachers who teach guidance related curriculum.

* Teach the school guidance curriculum components through the use of effective instructional strategies and planned structured groups considering diverse student populations and needs for differentiated instruction.

* Plan, implement, evaluate, and promote continuous improvement of a balanced comprehensive developmental guidance and counseling program that includes guidance curriculum, responsive services, individual planning, and system support components.

Responsive Services

* Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to counsel individual students, small groups of students, and parents to plan, monitor, and manage a student's own personal and social development. Provide preventive, remedial, and crisis counseling as needed.

* Serve as an impartial, non-reporting resource for interpersonal conflicts and discourse involving two or more students. In accusations of bullying, provides counseling to the students, does not conduct investigation or issue consequences.

* Coordinate school, home, and community resources and refer students, parents, and others to special programs and services as needed.

* Implement remediation practices to assist student 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 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.

Individual Planning

* Guide individual students, groups of students, and parents to plan, monitor, and manage the student's own educational and career development including creating and reviewing personal graduation plans and providing information about post-secondary opportunities.

* 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 post-secondary opportunities.

* Act as a student advocate, leader, collaborator, and systems change agent. Advocate for a school environment that acknowledges and respects diversity.

System Support

* Conduct an annual program audit to inform accountability, actions plans, time management, and systematic change.

* Participate…