School Guidance Counselor- Dearborn, MI
Full Time • Sterling Heights
Duties:
- Counsel students regarding educational issues such as course and program selection, class scheduling, personal, social and academic development, school adjustment, behavior/truancy, study habits, and career planning.
- Counsel students regarding graduation requirements, and necessary steps needed to ensure graduation requirements are met.
- Prepare student schedules and assists in developing the teachers’ master schedule.
- Assisting Deans or other administration with students that have repeated discipline and attendance issues.
- Chaperoning and organizing school events as required by the school district.
- Track student credit hours, work key assessments as well as credit recovery and community service hours.
- Discuss with parents or guardians, teachers, other counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavior, academic problems, and other issues that may come up.
- Make appropriate referrals of students and parents to outside agencies and specialists when necessary.
- Closely monitor and advise students and parents as to students academic progress toward promotion and graduation.
- Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
- Identify cases involving domestic abuse or other family problems affecting students' behavior and development.
- Counsel students on careers and career pathways
- Ensuring all students in grades 6 – 12 have a Career Cruising account and are knowledgeable on using it.
- Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
- Assisting with the enrollment, includes reviewing student placement, interviewing parents and students, attending ATA open houses and recruiting at other schools in promoting ATA.
- Observe and evaluate students' academic performance, behavior, social development, and physical well being of each student.
- Provide students with information on colleges, universities, and scholarship opportunities.
- District test supervisor for the MME, MSTEP, & PSAT/SAT
- Actively participate in the student RTI process
- Pursue continuous professional development and growth.
- Must comply with ATA faculty handbook and ADP Total Source policies handbook.
Qualifications:
- Hold a counseling degree from an accredited college or University.
- Meet the certification requirement for school counselor from the Michigan Department of Education.
- Ability to listen and take time to understand the points being made, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Aptitude of using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems in order to resolve issues.
- Certification pursuant to applicable law.
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