Position Type: Support Staff/Instructional AideDate Posted: 11/26/2024Location: New Oxford High SchoolDate Available: Immediate OpeningClosing Date: 12/09/2024
- Support the counselor in counseling small groups and individual students with problems. Refer severe problems to appropriate staff members
- Consult with teachers, staff, and parents regarding meeting the developmental needs of students
- Provide a non-certificated, paraprofessional viewpoint in the evaluation and revision of the building guidance counseling program
- Support the counselors in conducting counseling activities in the classroom in conjunction with administration and teachers
- Provide support to the counselors in facilitating the infusion of counseling/learning activities into the regular education curricula
- Help to facilitate the Student Assistance Program (SAP)/Child Sstudy
- Help to facilitate the TNT program (Peer Helper Program)
- Help to respond to crisis situations when appropriate and in a fashion commensurate with the non-certified, paraprofessional status and limitations of the position
- Attend orientations, end of year awards programs, evening parent meetings, and other parent information meetings as appropriate and/or assigned
- Assist with the coordination and proctoring of state (PSSA) testing
- Maintain the Honor Roll database and oversee the distribution of Honor Roll Certificates/Letters to Parents/Master lists for teachers and newspapers
- Report and process all documents pertaining to report cards
- Assist the At-Risk Counselor with the implementation of a Student Homework Club
- Coordinate the scheduling of parent/teacher conference night
- Assist with the orientation of new students during the school year
- Assist counselors with implementation of issue groups, classroom guidance, information services, career development, testing, educational planning, and miscellaneous functions associated with the mission of the guidance department
- Register and orient new students
- Perform clerical and computer duties as assigned
- Other duties as assigned by administration or guidance counselors