Job Title: Guidance Counselor
Qualifications: Appropriate Teaching Certificate
Reports to: Building Principal
Adopted by the Board of Education on June 10- 1991
Job Goals:
To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational- occupational- and life plans that hold promise for their personal fulfillment as mature and responsible men and women.
Performance Responsibilities:
1. Serves as an advocate for students.
- Works with students to develop and appreciate uniqueness of students.
- Works to resolve students’ educational needs.
- Remains readily available to students so as to provide counseling that will lead each student to increased personal growth- self-understanding- and maturity.
- Works with students on an individual and group basis in the solution of personal problems related to such problems as home and family relations- health and emotional adjustment.
- Confers with parents whenever necessary- utilizing the family as part of the systems approach to counseling- as it relates to the students’ school experience.
- Assists in the orientation of new faculty members to the guidance program.
- Advises administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline- but disciplinary action is the administration’s responsibility.
- Takes an active role in interpreting the school and guidance department’s objectives to students.
- Plans and implements orientation for students and parents in taking the next step in the school experience.
- Organizes and coordinates support groups for students.
- Participates in the building referral process by contributing to the team decision process.
- Coordinates referrals to community agencies and treatment programs and coordinates the return of students to the school environment.
- Provides educational- emotional- personal- and social resource material to student and parents.
- Acts as a liaison among the administrators- teachers- students- and community.
- Maintains current knowledge of counseling practices by reading.
- Plans with students in setting goals and understanding the relationship of school to everyday life experiences.
- Assists parents and student in evaluating aptitudes and abilities through the interpretation of standardized test scores and other pertinent data. (Grades 6-12)
- Promotes career awareness and development.
- Aide’s student in course and subject selection.
- Enrolls- confers- and orients students new to the school on school procedures and the school’s varied opportunities for learning. (grades 9-12)
- Makes available information and application for post-secondary institutions- scholarships- and employment information.
- Makes recommendations colleges- armed services- and post secondary education for admissions.
- Provides student information to colleges and potential employers according to provisions of the board’s policy on student records.
- Organizes and conducts annual “Career Day / College Night”.
- Organizes and conducts “Financial Aid Night”.
- Provides GED opportunities for area students and residents.
- Organizes and conducts annual honors night for all seniors.
- Obtains and disseminates career and occupational information to students when appropriate.
- Works with at risk students to maintain a connection between student and school with goal of preventing students from dropping out.
Terms of Employment:
Evaluation
Performance of job will be evaluated in accordance with board of education policy.
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