High School Counselor Job Temple area,Texas USA,Education / Teaching

Primary

Purpose:

The school counselor advocates for and supports all students in their personal, social, academic and career development. This is accomplished through a variety of approaches including, but not limited to, delivery of guidance curriculum in various group sizes to support student development; individual and group counseling; individual student planning and goal‑setting activities; consultation and coordination activities to support student success, and effective interpretation of student assessment data.

Qualifications:

Education/Certification:

Master’s Degree

Texas School Counselor Certification or LPC
Minimum two creditable years of teaching experience

Special Knowledge/

Skills:

Knowledge of counseling procedures, student appraisal, and career development
Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
Ability to provide parent and staff training and consultation to foster student, educational, career, personal and social development

Experience:

Two creditable years of teaching experience

Major Responsibilities and Duties Guidance Curriculum

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.

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.

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 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.

Responsive Services

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 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.

Individual Planning

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 post‑secondary opportunities.

Guides and advises students and their…