Description:
General Job Responsibilities:
The school counselor will provide the following duties as per appropriate grade level needs:
- Individual student academic program planning
- Interpreting cognitive, aptitude and achievement tests
- Providing counseling to students who are tardy or absent
- Providing counseling to students who have disciplinary problems
- Providing counseling to students as to appropriate school dress
- Collaborating with teachers to present school counseling core curriculum lessons
- Analyzing grade-point averages in relationship to achievement
- Interpreting student records
- Providing teachers with suggestions for effective classroom management
- Ensuring student records are maintained as per state and federal regulations
- Helping the school principal identify and resolve student issues, needs and problems
- Providing individual and small-group counseling services to students
- Advocating for students at individual education plan meetings, student study teams and school attendance review boards
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- Include research-based instructional practices and strategies in order to prepare students for college and the workplace.
- Include a component to teach organizational skills across content areas for students to apply in every aspect of their education.
- Exposure to colleges through tours, college student tutors, and guest speakers to motivate High School students to attend college and pursue careers.
- Promote College & Career Readiness skills through its curriculum and suggested instructional practices.
- Provide strategies to instill leadership skills in students through public speaking, small group activities, and community service activities.
- Provide a curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards and target the area of College and Career Readiness. It must have a scope and sequence along with instructional materials to address skills for students.
- Promote critical thinking skills through the use of research-based instructional practices and strategies.
- Incorporate inquiry-based research skills aligned to the Common Core State Standards.
- Materials provide students with study skills and strategies in preparation for college.