Secondary Professional School Counselor (Grades 6-12)

Dickinson Independent School District•Dickinson, TX

8h•Onsite

About The Position

This position advocates for and supports all students in their personal, social, academic, and career development. The role involves delivering a guidance curriculum in various group sizes, providing individual and group counseling, facilitating individual student planning and goal-setting activities, and engaging in consultation and coordination to support student success. A key aspect of the role is the effective interpretation of student assessment data.

Requirements

Master’s Degree
Texas School Counselor Certification
Minimum two creditable years of teaching experience

Responsibilities

Manage and lead the counseling program by planning, organizing, implementing and delivering program activities to improve students’ Intrapersonal Effectiveness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Personal Health and Safety, and Post-Secondary Planning and Readiness.
Deliver classroom guidance activities by teaching the school guidance curriculum components through the use of effective instructional skills and intentionally planned structured group sessions for students based on campus needs.
Implement the individual student planning component by guiding individuals and groups of students, and parents or guardians, through the development of educational, career, personal, or social plans.
Provide responsive service component services through the effective use of individual and group counseling, consultation, and referral skills.
Provide system support component activities through effective school counseling program management and support for other educational programs.
Serve as a consultant to teachers who conduct lesson based on the schools’/districts’ guidance curriculum.
Clearly articulate and communicate the counseling program management system and related program action plans to administration, faculty, parents, and the community.
Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior and standards as set forth by the American Counseling Association, the American School Counselor Association, and the state of Texas.
Act as a student advocate, leader, collaborator, and systems change agent.
Assist students and their parents or guardians in monitoring their academic, career, personal and social development as they progress in school.
Collaborate with administration in the coordination and implementation of school programs that address students’ educational, career, personal and social development.
Inform and consult with the counseling program advisory council in its role in planning and implementing the counseling program.
Guide and advise students and their parents/guardians regarding the importance of higher education, coursework designed to prepare students for higher education, and financial aid availability and requirements.
Conduct an annual campus counseling program evaluation.
Provide parents and staff training and consultation to foster student educational, career, personal and social development.
Perform other related comprehensive school counseling program assignments.
Facilitate and maintain records and evaluations of campus family engagement programs (English and Spanish).
Oversee the distribution, collection, and results summary of English and Spanish parent surveys (Title I and other).