PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
1) Provides individual and group counseling for personal growth, self-understanding and educational/career planning.
2) Provides crisis intervention for students who have serious, urgent and chronic problems or serves on Crisis Response Team.
3) Provides group guidance activities for personal growth, self-understanding and education/career planning.
4) Maintains procedures for following confidentiality and ethical codes.
5) Confers with administrators and parents regarding student and parental needs.
6) Consults with teachers regarding the developmental needs of individual students.
7) Assists teachers in developing strategies for classroom management and student discipline.
8) Serves as a resource person to teachers in developing guidance units for curricular areas.
9) Serves as a liaison with Student Support Services and as a member of the Student Assistance Team.
10) Provides leadership in planning and implementing career development experiences.
11) Contributes to curriculum development.
12) Participates in ongoing studies related to student needs.
13) Assists in the screening and placement of students in appropriate classes and alternate educational programs.
14) Develops written plans for guidance and counseling.
15) Seeks participation from staff, students and parents in planning the guidance and counseling program.
16) Assists in coordinating the referral of students to student services and to community agencies.
17) Maintain ongoing liaison relationships with personnel in other educational institutions and in community-based program.
18) Assists in facilitating student transition from one level to the next (K to six or seven).
19) Uses a variety of methods to collect and disseminate guidance information.
20) Coordinates developmental group guidance activities such as field trips, orientation programs, parent education programs and Career Days.
21) Works with student assessment program and assists with test utilization/interpretation.
22) Utilizes self-appraisal for the improvement of skills and participates in continuing education for professional development.
23) In summary, (per WV State Board Policy 5310) the following responsibilities are part of this job description.
a) providing purpose and direction for schools/county.
b) demonstrating cognitive skills to gather, analyze, and synthesize information to reach goals.
c) managing consensus and group behaviors
d) enhancing quality of total school/county organization
e) organizing and delegating to accomplish goals, and
f) communicating effectively.
CONTRACT PROVISIONS:: 202, 210, 215 OR 220 days according to school employed. Salary in accordance with established pay schedule.
EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of Board policy on evaluation of professional personnel.
JOB DESCRIPTION REVIEW: This job description will be reviewed annually by the Superintendent. All job descriptions will contain the information and facts considered essential to describing and evaluating job performance fairly and equitably. They should not be constructed as detailed statements of all the work required to be performed.
1/2013
Kanawha County Schools is the largest school system in WV, dedicated to providing a world-class education that ensures success for every student.
We believe:
-All students can achieve.
-Quality teaching is the key to success.
-Schools, parents, and community must be partners in learning.
-Schools must be safe and caring places.
-All teachers must be teachers of 21st century literacy skills.
-Effective leadership skills are essential for creating 21st century schools.
Our goals are as follows:
-The achievement gap will be eliminated.
-All students will master or succeed grade level education standards through quality instruction
-Student achievement and time-on-task will increase through a safe, drug-free, and nurturing environment.
-Student achievement will increase by integrating twenty-first century skills and technology tools throughout the curriculum.
