DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Middle School Counselor shall promote and enhance the learning process by continuously assessing student needs, identifying situations that may be hindering student success, and advocating for support and assistance in effectively dealing with those situations. The counselor, through a comprehensive school counseling program, shall provide support for all students in making successful transitions, developing skills, and obtaining the knowledge necessary to be productive citizens. He/she shall provide a proactive program that engages students and includes leadership, advocacy, and collaboration with school staff and administration in the delivery of programs and activities to help students achieve success.
The Middle School Counselor shall:
1. Abide by the ASCA Ethical Standards.
2. Implement the Cuba-Rushford Middle School Counseling Curriculum.
3. Be available to students requesting individual support &/or mediating situations among a group of students.
4. Be responsible for referring students and their families to appropriate school/community agencies when needed.
5. Provide short-term, non-therapeutic, solution-focused counseling to students during times of transition, heightened stress, critical change, or other situations impeding student success.
6. Support and collaborate with classroom teachers and administration to meet the academic, social and emotional needs of the students. Attend team meetings with teachers weekly.
7. Provide academic and career planning for all middle school students as defined by the state requirements.
8. Be responsible for the individual academic course selection process and maintain the scheduling process throughout the school year. Work with administration to create the middle school master schedule.
9. Attend CSE and 504 meetings for middle school students. Reflect their individual academic goals and programming in the student’s daily schedule. Provide mandated counseling to assigned students as indicated by a student’s IEP/504 plan.
10. Collaborate with all school counselors, nurses, social workers and school psychologists to identify student concerns and plan intervention as needed.
11. Assist with the transition of students described as “new entrants.”
12. Collaborate with elementary and high school teachers and counselors to assist with transition programs from 5th grade to 6th grade and from 8th grade to 9th grade.
13. Assist in the coordination of the 8th Grade Celebration.
14. Pursue professional growth