What are the responsibilities and job description for the Elementary Counselor position at Crandall Independent School District?
Position Type :
Professional Employee
Date Posted : 1 / 23 / 2025
Location :
Barbara Walker Elementary School
Date Available : 06 / 16 / 2025
Job Title : Elementary Counselor
Reports To : Principal
Contract Days : 199 Days
Starting Base Pay : Primary Purpose :
Plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive developmental guidance and counseling program at assigned campus. Counsel students to fully develop each student's academic, career, personal, and social abilities and address the needs of special population students.
Qualifications :
Education / Certification :
Master's degree in counseling from an accredited college or university
Valid Texas school counselor certificate
Special Knowledge / Skills :
Knowledge of counseling procedures, student appraisal, and career development
Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
Ability to instruct students and manage their behavior
Ability to present information in one-on-one, small group, and large group situations to students, parents, and district staff
Experience :
Two (2) year creditable experience as a classroom teacher
Major Responsibilities and Duties :
Guidance
- Plan and conduct structured group lessons to deliver district's guidance curriculum effectively and in accordance with students' developmental needs. Collaborate with teachers who teach guidance-related curriculum.
- Guide individual students, groups of students, and parents to plan, monitor, and manage the student's own educational and career development including creating and reviewing personal graduation plans and providing information about post-secondary opportunities.
- Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to counsel individual students, small groups of students, and parents to plan, monitor, and manage a student's own personal and social development. Provide preventive, remedial, and crisis counseling as needed.
- Serve as an impartial, non-reporting resource for interpersonal conflicts and discourse involving two or more students, including accusations of bullying.
Consultation
Assessment
Program Management and Administration
Other
Supervisory Responsibilities :
Supervise assigned clerical employee(s) if applicable.
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