Counselor at Taft Elementary

QUALIFICATIONS AND DUTIES OF A GUIDANCE COUNSELOR

QUALIFICATIONS:             1.   A valid Oklahoma certificate as a guidance counselor.

1. A master’s degree, representing intensive course work in the principles and practice of educational guidance; educational testing and measurement; counseling; the organization and administration of guidance services; and the psychology of learning.
2. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

REPORTS TO:                       Principal and Director of Special Education

JOB GOAL:                            To help students overcome problems impeding learning and 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. Registers new students with orientation on school procedures and varied opportunities for learning.
2. Assists students in course and subject selection.
3. Maintains student records and protects confidentiality.
4. Works with and maintains records of students with special needs, while attempting to resolve students’ educational handicaps.
5. Implement plans to discover and develop special abilities of students.
6. Address ways to prevent students from dropping out of school.
7. Provides student information to colleges and potential employers according to provisions of the Board’s policy on student records.
8. Plans guidance field trips to schools, colleges, and industry for interested students.
9. Makes recommendations to colleges for admissions and scholarships.
10. Guides students for participation in school and community activities.
11. Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and classes studying occupations.
12. Helps students evaluate career interests and choices.
13. Works with students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related to such problems as home and family relations, health, and emotional adjustment.
14. Confers with parents whenever necessary.
15. Interprets the guidance program to the community.
16. Provides in-service training in guidance for teachers and student teachers

1. Consults administrators and faculty on student discipline.
2. Assists in orientation of new faculty members.

   19.  Serves as building testing coordinator.

1. Helps students in evaluating aptitudes and abilities through the interpretation of individual standardized test scores and other pertinent data, and works with students in evolving education and occupation plans in terms of such evaluation.
2. Remains available to students to provide counseling that will lead each student to increased personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity.
3. Takes an active role in interpreting the school’s objectives to students, parents, and the community at large.
4. Keeps professional staff informed on the general range of services offered and improve the educational prospects of individual students being counsel
5. Initiates, assembles, maintains, and interprets accurate health records, attendance records, cumulative progress records, activity records, and uniform transcript records for assigned students.
6. Other duties as assigned by principal or Director of Special Education.

EVALUATION:

      Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.