2024-2025 Counselor Aecc - Little River-Academy, United States - Academy ISD

Academy ISD
Academy ISD
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Little River-Academy, United States

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Mark Lane

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Description

Job Title:
_School Counselor_
Exemption Status:Exempt


Reports to:
Principal


Date Revised:
May 2020

Dept

/School:

Assigned Campus


Primary Purpose:

Plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive developmental guidance and counseling program at assigned campus.

Counsel students to fully develop each student's academic, career, personal, and social abilities and address the needs of special population students.


Qualifications:


Education/Certification:
Master's degree in guidance counseling

Valid Texas counseling certificate


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

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


Experience:

Three years teaching experience


Major Responsibilities and Duties:


Guidance:


  • Plan and conduct structured group lessons to deliver district's guidance curriculum effectively and in accordance with students' developmental needs. Collaborate with teachers who teach guidancerelated curriculum.
  • 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 postsecondary opportunities.
  • 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.

Consultation

  • Coordinate school, home, and community resources and refer students, parent, and others to special programs and services as needed.
  • Work collaboratively to advocate for individual students and specific groups of students.

Assessment:


  • Interpret standardized test results and assessment data to guide students in individual goal setting and planning.

Program Management and Administration:


  • 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.
  • Advocate for a school environment that acknowledges and respects diversity.
  • Compile, maintain, and file all reports, records, and other documents.
  • Comply with policies established by federal and state law, State Board of Education rule, and board policy. Comply with all district and campus routines and regulations
  • Adhere to legal, ethical, and professional standards for school counselors including current professional standards of competence and practice.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Supervise assigned counseling aide(s), clerical employee(s), and other supervisory roles as assigned by the campus principal.


Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:


Tools/Equipment Used:
Personal computer and peripherals; standard instructional equipment


Posture:
Prolonged sitting; frequent standing, kneeling/squatting, bending/stooping, pushing/pulling, and twisting


Motion:
Frequent walking


Lifting:
Regular light lifting and carrying (less than 15 pounds)


Environment:
Work inside, may work outside


Mental Demands:
Maintain emotional control under stress; may work prolonged or irregular hours


Academy ISD (AISD) does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, military status, genetic information, or on any other basis prohibited by law.

Additionally, the district does not discriminate against an employee or applicant who acts to oppose such discrimination or participates in the investigation of a complaint related to a discriminatory employment practice.

Employment decisions will be made on the basis of each applicant's job qualifications, experience, and abilities
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