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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Education & Training
occupation category
Educational, Guidance, School, and Vocational Counselors
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Helps the public and legislators to understand the importance of career counseling, career development, and life-work planning
- Writes an accurate report of assessment results
- Establishes and convenes an advisory council for the school counseling program
- Articulates why diagnoses and long-term therapy are outside the scope of school counseling
- Uses assessments to help students understand their abilities, values and career interests
- Conducts follow-up interviews with counselees to determine if their needs have been met
- Identifies appropriate ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success standards addressing needs identified in action plans
- Helps clarify the student's decision making process
- Exhibits awareness and understanding about how to best match diverse clients/students with suitably culturally sensitive employers
- Analyzes data to assess school counseling program effectiveness and to inform program developments
- Collects and analyzes data to identify areas of success or gaps between and among groups of students in achievement, attendance, discipline and opportunities
- Evaluates appraisal resources and techniques in terms of their validity, reliability, and relationships to race, sex, age, socioeconomic status and ethnicity
- Confers with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss children's progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs
- Establishes contacts with employers to create internship and employment opportunities for students
- Sponsors extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests
- Assists the student in the identification of internal personal factors related to life/career decision-making including personality, values, interests, aptitudes, and motives
- Stays current with school counseling research and best practices
- Plans, directs, and participates in recruitment and enrollment activities
- Identifies appraisal resources appropriate for specified situations and populations
- Identifies gaps in achievement, attendance, discipline, opportunity and resources
- Evaluates students' or individuals' abilities, interests, and personality characteristics, using tests, records, interviews, or professional sources
- Develops strategies to provide appraisal and advisement to students and families about attaining the ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success
- Continues to develop individual and group counseling skills in order to enhance ability to respond appropriately to individuals from diverse populations
- Resolves ethical dilemmas by employing an ethical decision- making model in accordance with the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors
- Reviews progress toward students' annual outcome goals
- Implements individual and group programs in career education/guidance for campus populations
- Identifies and involves appropriate school and community professionals as well as the family in a crisis situation
- Provides support for students, including individual and small- group counseling, during times of transition, heightened stress, critical change or other situations impeding student success
- Prepares reports on students and activities as required by administration
- Impacts public policy as it relates to career development and workforce planning
- Uses strategies to store, retrieve, and disseminate vocational/career information and college information
- Selects or create competencies aligned with the ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success and the Common Core State Standards or other state-specific standards
- Interprets appraisal data to students and other appropriate individuals or groups of people in terms appropriate the purpose of the assessment strategies
- Plans and conducts orientation programs and group conferences to promote the adjustment of individuals to new life experiences, such as starting college
- Compiles and studies occupational, educational, and economic information to assist counselees in determining and carrying out vocational and educational objectives
- Determines appropriate students for the target group of action plans based on student, school and district data
- Plans and promotes career and employment-related programs and events, such as career planning presentations, work experience programs, job fairs, and career workshops
- Instructs individuals in career development techniques, such as job search and application strategies, resume writing, and interview skills
- Assesses needs for assistance, such as rehabilitation, financial aid, or additional vocational training, and refer clients to the appropriate services
- Collaborates with teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of school programs and in the preparation of master schedules for curriculum offerings
- Helps students understand the importance of postsecondary education and/or training as a pathway to a career
- Collaborates with members of the school counseling team and with administration to decide how school counseling programs are assessed and how results are shared
- Explains the impact of adverse childhood experiences and trauma, and demonstrate techniques to support students who have experienced trauma
- Counsels individuals to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations
- Counsels students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning
- Teaches classes and present self-help or information sessions on subjects related to education and career planning
- Uses appraisal techniques and measures of aptitude, achievement, interest, values, and personality
- Develops and implements a plan to address personal and/or institutional resistance to change that better supports student success
- Prioritizes ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success standards aligned with school improvement goals
- Establishes and enforces administration policies and rules governing student behavior
- Maintains accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations
- Identifies appropriate resources needed to implement action plans
- Identifies intended impact on academics, attendance and discipline as result of action plan implementation
- Explains the difference between appropriate short-term counseling and inappropriate long-term therapy
- Refers qualified counselees to employers or employment services for job placement
- Makes referrals to appropriate school and community resources
- Creates school counseling program beliefs, vision and mission statements aligned with the school and district
- Uses data to demonstrate a need for systemic change in areas such as course enrollment patterns; equity and access; and achievement, opportunity and/or information gaps
- Explains concepts related to program results and accountability within a comprehensive school counseling program
- Helps students cross reference individual assessment results (e.g. MBTI, Holland Code, ASVAB, O*Net) with occupational/career goals
- Assists the student in the identification of contextual factors in career decision making, including family, friends, educational opportunities, and finances
- Recognizes and modifies stereotypes held by students related to career choice.
- Reviews, disaggregates and interprets student achievement, attendance and discipline data to identify and implement interventions
- Establishes and supervises peer counseling and peer tutoring programs
- Refers students to degree programs based on interests, aptitudes, or educational assessments
- Supervises school counseling interns consistent with the principles of the ASCA School Counseling Professional Standards & Competencies
- Uses data to identify students in need of counseling intervention
- Implements pilot programs in addition to in a variety of career development areas including: appraisal, decision-making, information giving, and general career counseling
- Uses appropriate counseling techniques in effectively assisting students with career choice and life/career development concerns
- Provides information for teachers and staff members involved in helping students or graduates identify and pursue employment opportunities
- Creates annual and weekly calendars to plan activities reflecting annual student outcome goals
- Connects students to workplace experiences to deepen understandings and explore career interest
- Administers, scores, and reports findings from career assessment instruments appropriately
- Designs and implements school counseling action plans aligned with school and annual student outcome goals and student data
- Creates goals based on student, school and/or district data to narrow the achievement, opportunity and/or information gaps
- Communicates the limits of school counseling and the continuum of mental health services
- Assists the client and others designated by the client to interpret data from assessment instruments
- Uses achievement, attendance and/or discipline data to create annual student outcome goals aligned with school improvement plans
- Uses computer-delivered assessment measures effectively and appropriately
- Responds with appropriate intervention strategies to meet the needs of the individual, group or school community before, during and after crisis response
- Addresses community groups, faculty, and staff members to explain available counseling services
- Helps students and families navigate postsecondary awareness, exploration, admissions and financial aid processes
- Helps students understand how academic performance relates to the world of work, family life and community service
- Assists students in appraising quality of life and college majors as they relate to future occupational options
- Conducts and analyzes self-appraisal and assessment related to school counseling professional standards and competencies
- Communicates annual student outcome goals to administrators, teachers, other school staff and stakeholder
- Practices within the ethical principles of the school counseling profession in accordance with the ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors
- Collaborates with school counselors and administration to decide how school counseling programs are assessed and how results are shared
- Remains cognizant when working with groups of the group demographics and monitors these to ensure appropriate respect and confidentiality is maintained
- Uses student data and results from survey tools to monitor and refine annual student outcome goals
- Reviews progress toward annual student outcome goals
- Prepares students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks
- Identifies cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage students or parents to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals
- Selects evidence-based curricula and activities to accomplish objectives, or select/develop other materials informed by research and best practice if evidence-based materials do not exist
- Provides disabled students with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms
- Selects ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success standards to address student needs demonstrated in data
- Reviews transcripts to ensure that students meet graduation or college entrance requirements and write letters of recommendation
- Evaluates and selects valid and reliable instruments appropriate to the client’s gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and physical and mental capacities.
- Adheres to the legal responsibilities of the role of the school counselor including the unique legal and ethical principles of working with minor students in a school setting
- Provides crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools
- Provides special services such as alcohol and drug prevention programs and classes that teach students to handle conflicts without resorting to violence
- Includes career opportunities, labor market trends and global economics to help students develop immediate and long- range plans
- Interprets data from assessment instruments and present the results to clients and to others
- Uses data to identify how school, district and state educational policies, procedures and practices support and/or impede student success
- Supports and challenges clients to examine life-work roles, including the balance of work, leisure, family, and community in their careers.
- Writes goals in a measurable format such as the SMART goal format, and include baseline and target data within the goal statement
- Observes students during classroom and play activities to evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health
- Attends meetings, educational conferences, and training workshops and serve on committees
- Provides students with information on topics, such as college degree programs and admission requirements, financial aid opportunities, trade and technical schools, and apprenticeship programs
- Uses presentation skills to share data and results of action plans and activities with administrators, advisory councils, teachers, faculty and staff, families, school boards and stakeholders
- Assists the student to recognize the relationship between self-understanding and effective life/career decisions
- Demonstrates the proper administration of appraisal techniques with both individual and group administrated assessment instruments
