Job description
- Provides counseling services using his/her competencies and professional knowledge in an effort to assist the student to:
- understand and accept himself as an individual, thus leading to development of self-awareness
- develop personal decision-making competencies that are important to the decision-making process
- to develop the ability to resolve problems
- counsels parents to assume responsibility for their decisions and the consequences resulting from them.
- Assists in providing student appraisal procedures by:
- organizing, developing, collecting, studying, and using pertinent appraisal data as bases for stimulating the intellectual, career, and personality development of each student;
- interpreting the implications of appraisal data to teachers and administrators;
- helping teachers develop competencies in student appraisal procedures;
- working with school administrators to develop conditions conductive to the operation of an effective program of student appraisal procedures.
- Assists in providing informational procedures by:
- organizing, collecting, disseminating, and interpreting pertinent educational and occupational information for use by students, parents, and school staff.
- developing suitable plans and procedures for effective group guidance activities;
- planning with teachers for the development and use of units of instruction that relate to the goals of guidance;
- developing student competencies in using information more effectively to attain their personal goals.
- Assists in procedures concerning realistic placement of students considering his interests, stage of development, and program offerings by:
- participating with the school staff in providing accurate and proper grouping procedures for all students;
- helping students in making informed choices of subjects that relate to his future goals;
- identifying school related and community related activities in keeping with student interests and encouraging student participation in those activities.
- Assists in providing referral services for students by:
- utilizing special services available through the Department of Pupil Personnel and Guidance Services and the Department of Instructional Improvement Services that relate to all special needs of students;
- utilizing special services available through the various community agencies;
- assuring accuracy and completeness of data that accompanies the request for referral services;
- making parents aware of the available referral services and encourage utilization of these services whenever it seems appropriate;
- encouraging the development and/or extension of community agencies for meeting special student needs that are not already adequately met.
- Assists in providing evaluation and research data by:
- developing suitable plans and procedures for continuous evaluation of the effectiveness of the work of the counselor;
- developing suitable plans and procedures for continuous evaluations of the effectiveness of the total guidance program;
- cooperating with local, state, federal, and university-sponsored guidance research studies when appropriately related and properly coordinated.
- Performs certain other tasks that are supportive and complementary to the total guidance program in the school by:
- participating in programs of orientation for students, being especially concerned with articulation;
- providing and receiving consultative assistance concerning student growth and development;
- participating in curricular planning and revision with special focus on the student-centered point of view;
- developing plans for continuing on-the-job professional improvement.
- Maintains regular attendance
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Master's Degree
- Three years successful teaching experience is preferred.
- Valid Kentucky Teaching Certificate.
- Certification as a High School Guidance Counselor
- Work is performed while standing, sitting and/or walking
- Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing
- Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations
- Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching
- Requires the ability to lift, carry, push or pull light weights
JobID: 13107
Position Type:
Student Support Services - Certified/CERT - 1050 - COUNSELOR - MIDDLE/HIGH
Student Support Services - Certified/CERT - 1050 - COUNSELOR - MIDDLE/HIGH
Date Posted:
5/17/2023
5/17/2023
Location:
LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL
LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL
Date Available:
23/24 School Year
23/24 School Year
Closing Date:
05/31/2023
Description:
05/31/2023
To provide the best functional guidance program possible under the direction of the principal, the Associate Director for Pupil Personnel and Guidance Services, and other administrative personnel.
Job Summary:
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Contact Person: Anthony Orr (anthony.orr@fayette.kyschools.us)
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