Role:
Counselor-Elementary
Organization:
105 - Fabens Elementary
Posting Opens:
05-06-2026
Posting Closes:
Open Until Filled
Primary Purpose:
Plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive school 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. Deliver guidance curriculum in various group sizes. Educate students of skills necessary to address troublesome circumstances, support students in challenging situations, and assist students with needed resources to navigate crisis situations.
Qualifications:
Education/Certification:
Master's degree in counseling from 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 or guardians, and district staff
Responsibilities:
Guidance Curriculum
Plan, organize, implement, and deliver structured group lessons according to the districts guidance curriculum to improve students interpersonal and intrapersonal effectiveness, personal health and safety, post-secondary planning and readiness, and other developmental needs.
Teach the school guidance curriculum components by applying effective instructional strategies and planned structured groups considering diverse student populations and needs for differentiated instruction.
Work with students, staff, parents or guardians, and the community to identify priorities where students will be served through the guidance curriculum component. Collaborate across curricular areas to integrate guidance lessons into content area curriculum.
Create a balanced curriculum by using well-planned and intentional activities and materials, incorporating guest speakers, and offering engaging delivery techniques, including technology tools.
Responsive Services
Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to respond to problematic or critical incidents to support students and offer services in time of need.
Use preventive activities to remove barriers that interfere with a students educational, career, personal, and social development.
Implement remediation practices to assist students in coping with problem situations or unwise choices. Identify precipitating and antecedent factors, effective and ineffective approaches to dealing with the circumstances, and provide feedback to guide future decisions.
[]{styl=""}
