Anticipated Middle School Guidance Counselor
Anticipated Middle School Guidance Counselor
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05-05-2025
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05-05-2025
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Anticipated Middle School Guidance CounselorQualifications
- Masters Degree in content specific field.
- Excellent communication skills
- Appropriate Massachusetts licensure required (School Guidance Counselor 512) Dual Licensure 68 Guidance Counselor and Adjustment Counselor Preferred
- S.E.I. Endorsement
- Successful completion of a Criminal Record Check (C.O.R.I.) and fingerprint check.
- Attend team meetings on a regular basis
- Schedule and manage the teams calendar as it pertains to parent meetings
- Advocate for students interests with team teachers as is most effective with regular team meetings
- Provide knowledge about each childs educational history through experience over the course of 3 years research through cumulative files and/or contact with previous teachers and faculty
- Support team events such as processing hot topics like bullying school violence cyber bullying community service projects etc.
- Conduct an initial interview with parent/guardian and student
- Collect appropriate data i.e. health records proof of residency transcripts IEP/504 information contact former school if need be
- Create schedule inform teachers provide orientation arrange for peer helpers
- Organize conduct Instructional Support Team meetings for academically at risk students
- Collect data for the I.S.T. process maintain file refer for testing
- Attend all IEP team meetings initial annual and 3year reevaluations for each child
- Assist the principal in maintaining a file of all plans
- Facilitate the implementation of the plan especially as regards providing middle school staff with information
- Assist the principal in reviewing plans annually
- Assist the principal in new referrals and the creation of plans as needed
- Hold parent meetings to discuss the implementation and accommodations of the plans
- Parent Evening Orientation Program
- Support orientation of eighth graders to high school participate in vocational school informational sessions; process collect data write recommendations for private school applications
- organize and run programs for transition from grade sixth to seven and seven to eight Visit classes to explain new programs and ease anxieties related to transition; Collect data for selection of certain courses: i.e. foreign language and music
- Create the nine new teams three per grade with consideration given to the following so that there is equity among the teams: various neighborhoods in Melrose especially important in the fifth to sixth transition males and females special education students siblings numbers of abilitybased math sections in grades seven and eight specialized courses as indicated per I.E.P.s and any other pertinent information
- Make schedule changes at the beginning of each year and semester per parent teacher student requests
- Students at Risk suicide ideation/action runaways chemical involvement selfinjurious behavior and any other emotional crisis
- Good Grief grieving protocol
- Be available for crisis/immediate need on a daily basis home visits for school phobics and potential truants
- Referrals from administration particularly suspended students part of the reentry processes
- Selfreferrals students bring themselves to the guidance office on a regular basis for issues that range from family concerns to peer issues to academic concerns
- Teachers refer/bring students for a variety of reasons most prominent academic or non discipline behavioral issues
- Parental referrals for additional support with their children with school and/or home concerns
- Conflict resolutions between individuals with peer issues primarily on occasion between students and teacher and student and parents.
- Run an issue oriented group i.e. grief loss through divorce friend moving bullying social interactions etc.
- Review midquarter progress reports meet with students call parents etc.
- End of year contact parents of students who must attend summer school and assist in making appropriate plans
- Assist principal in organizing schedule
- distribute materials preparing testing materials for 12 homerooms (per grade) and special ed. staff
- Collect itemize and pack materials for return
- administer makeup tests to students who were absent
- Organize I.S.S.P. (Individual Student Success Plans) for students who receive a Warning on a designated MCAS test
- file 300 scores
- Locate mail transfer students MCAS scores
- gather data
- complete applications
- write recommendations
- send records
- file 51A C.H.I.N.S. as needed
- attend court and represent school at hearings as needed
- arrange an informational assembly for the eighth grade
- process applications meet with interested students and parents
- arrange a tour of the school for/with interested students
- as needed attend annual reviews for special education students accepted to the school.
- contact request and supply information to the courts/police and DCFS and contracted agencies
- Consult with physicians psychologists and other therapists about students caseload.
- Work directly with Melrose Alliance Against Violence to implement programs
- Coordinate Arbour and HES counseling services
- Research various programs and resources for families
- Maintain regular consultations with METCO coordinator
- Schedule consult and support ESL students
- Arrange tutoring Bridge volunteers high school students doing community service
- Collect homework assignments for absentees
- List of students not attending MHS
- Assist & attend Drug & Alcohol Summit Week
- Assist & attend Random Acts of Kindness Summit Week
Employment Type
Full-Time
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