School Counselor; South Bloomfield Elem

Elementary School Counselor

The Elementary School Counselor will counsel and guide students to enhance and facilitate learning, encourage emotional and personal growth, assist with student difficulties and aid students in making appropriate career choices.

• Ensure safety of students, taking all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities.
• Maintain accurate, complete, and correct records as required.
• Provide guidance and counsel to students which will promote their welfare and their proper educational development.
• Attend parent/teacher conferences.
• Consult with colleagues and parents.
• Maintain and improve professional competence.
• Implement a school counseling program to support students through the important elementary developmental period.
• Provide education, prevention, and intervention activities to integrate into all aspects of student's lives.
• Provide a program that teaches knowledge, attitudes and skills to students that they will need to acquire in academic, career and social/emotional development, which serve as the foundation for future success.
• Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with parents through effective use of interim reports, report cards and conferences.
• Refer students suspected of learning disabilities for diagnosis on a regular basis, seeking the assistance of the district's specialists as required.
• Participate in individual conferences with teachers, student, and parents.
• Provide orientation, coordination and academic advising for new and transfer students.
• Collaborate with teachers and parents on early identification and intervention of children's academic and social/emotional needs.
• Identify student needs through academic, attendance and discipline data by consulting with administrators.
• Balance the school counselor program by addressing students academic, career and social/emotional development in addition to balancing the delivery methods, recognizing that students learn in multiple ways.
• Assess student abilities, interest, and achievement to help them make decisions about their future.
• Provide professional assistance and support to a student or small group of students during times of transition, heightened stress, critical change, or other situations impeding student success.
• Provide referrals to community agencies for students with special needs.
• Provide information services, pupil appraisal and record services, group guidance services, counseling services, consultative services, parent conference services, resource coordination services, and placement services.
• Provide counseling opportunities that will lead students to increased personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity.
• Serve as a resource on building classroom connections, effective classroom management and the role of noncognitive factors in student success.
• Make provisions for being available to students and parents for educationally related purposes during the instructional day.
• Assist the administration in implementing all procedures and rules governing student life to identify and resolve student issues, needs and problems.
• Advocate for students at individual education plan meetings.
• Interact in a positive manner with staff, students, and parents.
• Promote good public relations by personal appearance, attitude, and conversation.
• Respond to routine questions and requests in an appropriate and professional manner.
• Serve as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible members of the community.
• Instill in students the belief in and practice of ethical principles and democratic values.
• Demonstrate sound judgement and emotional stability.
• Demonstrate positive attitude and works and communicates well with others.

• Knowledge and skills in test administration and interpretation.
• Knowledge of the district's curriculum.
• Knowledge of resources available in the community for students and their families.

• Skilled in organizing and problem-solving.
• Skilled in active listening by giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking the time to understand the points being made, asking…