Guidance Counselor

JobID: 1311

**Position Type**:
Campus Professional Positions/School Counselor**Date Posted**:
5/26/2024**Location**:
Carroll Elementary School**Date Available**:
As Filled**MISSION**:
CISD educates and inspires every Dragon through a tradition of excellence and innovation in academics, character, and service for life-long success.
**JOB SUMMARY**:
This position will 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 counseling from an accredited college or university
- Valid Texas school counselor 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**:

- Two years creditable experience as a classroom teacher

**MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Instructional Management**
- Receive general instructions from the school Superintendent or Principals regarding over-all operations of counselor’s functions pursuant to the job description and as established by the Texas Education Agency

**School/Organizational Climate**
- Provide for each new student a cumulative record which contains personal data, health record, attendance, test scores, and grades
- Maintain student records and protects their confidentiality
- Coordinate the district achievement testing
- Share with and interprets to teachers standardized test data which is available on pupils
- Assist in identifying students with special abilities and needs
- Serve as a member of the educational team in developing and modifying the curriculum
- Participate in conducting local research relating to pupil needs and evaluating the educational, guidance, and counseling program

**School/Organizational Improvement**
- Prepare, collect and make available to students and parents information concerning school offerings, opportunities for further education, careers, and career awareness, exploration, and training opportunities
- Assist pupils in obtaining financial aid to remain in high school and for college education
- Plan with teachers and administrators for meeting instructional needs of students K-12 at all levels of achievement
- Assist pupils in obtaining financial aid to remain in high school and for college education
- Aid students in developing long-range educational plans and in making appropriate choices of school courses
- Administer placement and aptitude tests so that youngsters may be placed in the most appropriate program
- Assist students in making the transition successfully from one school level to another and from school to employment
- Provide student information to colleges and potential employers according to provisions of the Board’s policy on student records
- Make recommendations to colleges for admissions and scholarships
- Provide a follow-up program for dropouts and graduates.

**Personnel Management**
- Help students to become aware of his/her potential and interests and to develop these to the fullest
- Provide parents with information about their children with due regard to the child’s desire for confidentiality
- Hold conferences to assist parents in understanding their children and in obtaining realistic perceptions of their children’s potentials

**Administration and Fiscal/Facilities Management**
- Inform students and parents of the availability of such services

**Student Management**
- Share appropriate pupil data with due regard for the student’s desire for confidentiality; interpret data; provide information in regard to its limitations and proper use.
- Share information regarding the growth and development of students
- Consult with co-workers in identifying and working with students with special needs and problems
- Participate in planning and implementing staff development education programs

**Professional Growth and Development**
- Describe objectively the population of the school as a basis for future planning
- Determine progress of student body through norm reference and criterion reference tests and follow-up studies of grades made by students
- Suggest areas of curriculum in need of study and possible revision
- Keep informed concerning occupational trends in the community and also nationally.
- Make systematic judgments of the relative effectiveness with which goals of the guidance and counseling programs are attained in relation to specified standards

**School/Community Relations**
- Keep abreast of innovative practices.
- Be adaptable and flexible in acceptance of changes in techniques and pro