About This Role
The School Counselor provides guidance and support to students, focusing on their academic, social, emotional, and physical development. This role involves implementing counseling programs, aiding in academic progress, and serving as a consultant to teachers and parents to foster a positive learning environment.
Responsibilities
- Implement a school counseling program as determined by the Tennessee State School Counseling Model and Guidelines
- Provide preventive and developmental counseling to students to prepare them for school responsibilities and support their social, emotional, and physical development
- Aid children in academic development through the use and interpretation of test scores, improved pupil self-concept, and early identification and attention to problems that deter learning and development
- Act in a consultant role to teachers regarding the use of test scores, improvement of the learning environment, use of out-of-school resources and agencies, and as a home-school liaison
- Offer services related to the identification and academic placement of children
- Serve in a consultant role to parents, in a liaison capacity, as a resource in understanding growth and development, and as an aid in understanding how non-school factors affect learning and achievement
- Immediately report any reasonable suspicions related to a child’s health or welfare as a result of abuse or neglect to the appropriate state/community agency and the principal
- Immediately report to school and district administration any student issue that may involve threats to self or others, including threats of school violence
- Abide by the Tennessee Teacher Code of Ethics
- Collaborate with the behavior support team for teacher and student success
- Serve as a resource in decreasing discipline problems through an understanding of peer relations, teacher-pupil relations, and social and emotional awareness
- Aid in improving school attendance and retention by implementing an early identification and prevention program for potential attendance and retention problems
- Serve as a resource in decreasing the incidence of juvenile delinquency by early intervention through guidance and school counseling services
- Act as a resource and consultant to teachers in implementing a career development program which, at the elementary school level, includes self-awareness, job awareness, and pre-vocational orientation
- Provide an available source for students who need someone to “just listen”
- Serve as a resource and consultant to teachers in implementing an intervention program that utilizes conflict resolution and decision-making strategies aimed at preventing occurrences of disruptive acts by students within the school, at school-related activities/events, and on school property
