School Counselor

Major Responsibilities and Duties

As a School Counselor at Keller ISD, you will play a vital role in guiding students to achieve their academic, career, and personal goals. Your primary responsibilities will include planning, organizing, and implementing structured group lessons to improve students' interpersonal and intrapersonal effectiveness, personal health and safety, post-secondary planning, and other developmental needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Teach the school guidance curriculum components through effective instructional strategies and planned structured groups, considering diverse student populations and needs for differentiated instruction.
• Work with students, staff, parents, and the community to identify priorities where students will be served through the guidance curriculum component.
• Collaborate across curricular areas to integrate guidance lessons into content area curriculum.
• Create a balanced curriculum using well-planned and intentional activities and materials, incorporating guest speakers, and offering engaging delivery techniques, including technology tools.

Responsive Services

As a School Counselor, you will use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to respond to problematic or critical incidents to support students and offer services in times of need. You will also use preventive activities to remove barriers that interfere with a student's educational, career, personal, and social development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement remediation practices to assist students in coping with problem situations or unwise choices.
• Use specialized skills to support students in crisis situations requiring immediate response.
• Maintain a healthy and safe school environment by collaborating with district staff, parents, and local officials.
• Provide continued support to students in need through individual counseling, small group counseling, consultation, or referral to services outside the school or district.

Individualized Planning

You will create school counseling services that are developmental and age-appropriate, providing information or literature that highlights related topics to students, teachers, and administrators. You will assist individual students and their parents in monitoring their academic, career, personal, and social development as they progress in school.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a student advocate, leader, collaborator, and systems change agent.
• Advocate for a school environment that acknowledges and respects diversity and ensures equitable access and placement in courses and programs for minority, disenfranchised, homeless, and other special populations.
• Interpret standardized test results, offer career development activities, provide strategies for grade level transitions, and guide students in individual goal setting and planning.

System Support

You will collect, summarize, and interpret testing data to plan, create interventions, guide students, and address specific student needs. You will also conduct an annual program audit to inform accountability, action plans, time management, and systemic change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in campus-based school improvement planning and goal setting.
• Provide parent and staff training and consultation to foster student educational, career, personal, and social development.
• Clearly articulate and communicate the counseling program's management system and related program action plans to campus and district staff, parents, and the community.

Policy, Reports, and Law

You will comply with policies established by federal and state law, State Board of Education rule, and board policy. You will also adhere to legal, ethical, and professional standards for school counselors, including current professional standards of competence and practice.

Key Responsibilities:

• Model an effective referral process for assisting identified students and others to use special programs and services.
• Maintain and submit accurate, timely documentation of program and service activities.
• Maintain confidentiality and comply with all policies, operating procedures, legal requirements, and verbal and written directives.

Requirements:

• Masters Degree in Counseling from an accredited college or university.
• Valid Texas School Counselor Certificate.
• Two (2) years of successful educational experience.

Skills and Abilities:

• 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.

Working Conditions:

• Prolonged sitting; frequent standing; kneeling/squatting, occasional bending/stooping, pushing/pulling, and twisting.
• Frequent walking; repetitive hand motions, frequent keyboarding and use of mouse; occasional reaching.

Keller ISD is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment that reflects the communities we serve.

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