Middle School Counselor

TITLE COUNSELOR 6-8 (Guidance Teacher)
 
QUALIFICATIONS

1. Minimum master's degree
2. Valid teacher license with appropriate endorsement
3. Administrative or supervisory experience
4. Meets health and physical requirements

 
JOB GOAL
To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational, occupational, and life plans
 
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
 

1. Assists the principal in registering students new to the school and orients them to school procedures
2. Aids students in course and subject selections
3. Maintains student records and protects their confidentiality
4. Requests and sends student records
5. Confers with principal, teachers, school psychologists, speech teachers, etc. concerning students
6. Organizes and conducts parent conferences
7. Conducts individual, large, and small group counseling sessions
8. Serves as a member of M-Team and Disciplinary Hearing Authority Team when necessary
9. Arranges for tutors and summer school work
10. Serves as building administrator for achievement testing program
11. Plans and chaperones school field trips
12. Attends guidance seminars, conferences, and workshops
13. Helps students evaluate career interests and choices
14. Helps organize and conduct annual "Career Day"
15. Works with students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related such issues as home and family relations, health, and emotional adjustment
16. Provides counseling to students who are referred as having problems in attendance, retention, discipline, and pre-delinquency
17. Administers MICRO-Info Computer Program for all eighth grade students
18. Interprets the guidance program to the community
19. Provides inservice training in guidance for teachers and student teachers
20. Coordinates funds for students that may be in need of indigent services
21. Assists in the orientation of new faculty members
22. Works with Life Skills program in securing students for groups
23. Works with high school counselors on registration for all incoming ninth graders
24. Provides information and transportation for pregnancy screening for students
25. Plans and coordinates guest speakers and instructors and speaks to community groups
26. Coordinates Summer Youth Employment and Training Program (JTPA)
27. Performs other duties as assigned

 
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 25 lbs., with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 lbs. Other physical demands that may be required are as follows:
 

1. Kneeling
2. Talking
3. Hearing
4. Seeing

 
TEMPERAMENT (Personal traits)
 

1. Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure
2. Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity
3. Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria
4. Adaptability to dealing with people beyond giving and receiving instruction

 
CAPACITY AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS
Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or adequately perform a task or job duty.
 

1. Intelligence: Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments
2. Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with then
3. Numerical: Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately
4. Data Perception: Ability to understand and interpret information that may be presented in the form of graphs, charts, or tables

 
WORK CONDITIONS
Normal working environment
 
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. 200-day contract
2. Teacher salary scale

 
IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR
Principal
 
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so assigned.
 
Adopted 07/01/93