Counselor at Monroe Elementary

Enid Public Schools•Enid, OK

17h•Onsite

About The Position

The Counselor at Monroe Elementary will 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. This role involves registering new students, assisting with course selection, maintaining student records, and working with students with special needs. The counselor will also implement plans to discover and develop special abilities of students, address dropout prevention, and provide student information to colleges and potential employers. Additionally, the counselor will plan guidance field trips, make recommendations for college admissions and scholarships, guide students in school and community activities, and disseminate occupational information. The role includes helping students evaluate career interests, working with students on personal problems, conferring with parents, interpreting the guidance program to the community, and providing in-service training for teachers. The counselor will also consult with administrators and faculty on student discipline, assist with new faculty orientation, serve as the building testing coordinator, and help students evaluate aptitudes and abilities. The counselor will remain available for individual counseling to foster personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity, and will actively interpret the school's objectives to students, parents, and the community. They will keep the professional staff informed about guidance services and improve students' educational prospects. This role also involves initiating, assembling, maintaining, and interpreting accurate health, attendance, progress, activity, and transcript records for assigned students. Other duties may be assigned by the principal or Director of Special Education.

Requirements

A valid Oklahoma certificate as a guidance counselor.
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.

Nice To Haves

Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Responsibilities

Registers new students with orientation on school procedures and varied opportunities for learning.
Assists students in course and subject selection.
Maintains student records and protects confidentiality.
Works with and maintains records of students with special needs, while attempting to resolve students’ educational handicaps.
Implement plans to discover and develop special abilities of students.
Address ways to prevent students from dropping out of school.
Provides student information to colleges and potential employers according to provisions of the Board’s policy on student records.
Plans guidance field trips to schools, colleges, and industry for interested students.
Makes recommendations to colleges for admissions and scholarships.
Guides students for participation in school and community activities.
Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and classes studying occupations.
Helps students evaluate career interests and choices.
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.
Confers with parents whenever necessary.
Interprets the guidance program to the community.
Provides in-service training in guidance for teachers and student teachers
Consults administrators and faculty on student discipline.
Assists in orientation of new faculty members.
Serves as building testing coordinator.
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.
Remains available to students to provide counseling that will lead each student to increased personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity.
Takes an active role in interpreting the school’s objectives to students, parents, and the community at large.
Keeps professional staff informed on the general range of services offered and improve the educational prospects of individual students being counsel
Initiates, assembles, maintains, and interprets accurate health records, attendance records, cumulative progress records, activity records, and uniform transcript records for assigned students.
Other duties as assigned by principal or Director of Special Education.