Elementary Counselor ACE (Bunche)

Elementary Counselor

Exempt Status: Exempt

Number Of Days: According to district approved calendar

Department: Guidance and Counseling

Reports To: Principal, Director of Guidance and Counseling

Supervises: None

Education:

• Hold an appropriate Texas counselor's certificate, or eligible for a permit for a counselor's certificate.
• Certified at the level of assignment based on a bachelor's degree

Experience:

• Two years of successful classroom teaching experience preferred
• School counseling experience preferred

Essential Functions

Communication Guidance Curriculum/Individual Planning/Responsive Services/System Support

1. Consistently exhibits effective communication skills when working with superiors, peers, parents, and students so that individuals have confidence in the counselor's knowledge, concern, and competence.
2. Interprets and shares information about student achievement and progress with parents, teachers, and other professional personnel.
3. Works closely with teachers to identify at-risk behaviors in students so that intervention can take place.
4. Promptly responds to parent and/or student inquiries through telephone or personal contact.
5. Conducts required classroom guidance activities on a regularly scheduled basis.
6. Informs teachers, administrators and the public about the guidance program; i.e., community meetings, media presentations, and newsletters.

Student Placement Individual Planning/Responsive Services

1. Assists in classroom and/or behavioral management planning with parents and professional personnel.
2. Participates and/or contributes information upon request for campus ARD meetings.
3. Coordinates a program of new student orientation both at the beginning of school and for transfer students during the school year and assists with their placement in instructional programs as needed.

Information Services System Support/Guidance Curriculum

1. Establishes and/or maintains the necessary lines of communication between home and school to enhance the development of the student.
2. Explain and interpret the role of the counselor to school staff.
3. Within the bounds of confidentiality, keeps teachers informed of progress made by students who are receiving counseling services, and provides information that will enable the teachers to reinforce the counseling objectives.
4. Provides information to the public regarding guidance programs and activities.
5. Collects and disseminates guidance materials that are relevant to the educational, vocational, and personal needs of students.

Counseling Services Responsive Services/Individual Planning/Guidance Curriculum

1. Is available and accessible to students in such a way that both planned and casual contact with students is achieved.
2. Provides appropriate career and educational counseling for individuals and student groups.
3. Confers with parents, students, and teachers regarding student aptitude, achievement, and ability.
4. Works effectively with students and/or parents to resolve school-related conflicts.
5. Conduct failure conferences with students for six weeks.
6. Is knowledgeable about community agencies and coordinates the referral of students to those agencies as appropriate.
7. Follows up on teacher and parent referrals for special diagnosis and counseling of students, working closely with other professionals.
8. Provides for small group activities to emphasize personal and social development.
9. Conduct support groups and/or other activities for at-risk students.
10. Conduct special programs for parents of at-risk students.

Administrative System Support/Individual Planning

1. Conducts staff development program as requested.
2. Works with receiving counselors during spring transitional activities; i.e., sixth-grade preregistration, and fourth/fifth-grade orientation to the new campus.
3. Assists the administration with the appropriate placement of students (to include, at the sixth-grade level, coordinating the preregistering of sixth-grade students who move into the district after spring Junior High preregistration has been completed).
4. Provides consultant services to faculty and staff.

Professional Growth System Support

1. Prepares and submits to the building principal an annual performance plan, outlining the guidance and counseling goals for the year, a timeline of activities, and a method of measurement of outcome.
2. Plans for and engages in professional growth through attendance/follow-up activities at meetings, conferences, and in-services.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive description of all work requirements and responsibilities. Additionally, the minimum level of education noted as a requirement could be supplemented by commensurate experience and/or certification(s) as determined by the hiring manager.

Revised - 11/01/2023

All MISD employees are expected to maintain an extreme degree of confidentiality by following the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) for student information and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) for employee and student information. Midland Independent School District provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.