School Counselor

COFFEE COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM

Job Description

School Counselor

Responsible to : Principal

Qualifications :

• Valid Tennessee License with proper endorsements
• Master's Degree in School Counseling preferred
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Competent technological skills

Essential Responsibilities :

career development

personal goals, choices, and values and their relationship in decision-making

services to meet the needs of all children

attendance, academics, discipline, retention, or other administrative related issues

and works with teachers to implement intervention strategies

local standards, appropriate for the grade / age of students served

parents, and other resources available in the school or community

personal and social curriculum materials

appropriate to the age of students served

service activities

helping them in understanding students and how to meet students' intellectual and

personal needs

administrative structures to facilitate meeting the needs of individual students

problems or provide direction for determination of student services as needed

academic and career development

and students of the services available through the counseling office

seeking skills necessary to obtain and maintain employment

career interest, aptitude, achievement, social and personal skills, individual and

group behavior, study skills, attitudes, and values

post-secondary plan)

academic / grade levels

General Requirements :

BOE Revisions Approved 2 / 8 / 10