2025 Middle School Counselor
Mount Pleasant Community School District
- Mount Pleasant, IA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- A major in school counseling or a related counseling field, preferably a master's degree in school counseling. Must be appropriately endorsed or qualify for the appropriate endorsement at the K-8 level, K-12 level or 5-12 level.
- Implement and evaluate specific strategies designed to meet program goals and objectives.
- Consult and coordinate efforts with resource persons, specialists, businesses, and agencies outside the school to promote program objectives.
- Provide information appropriate to the particular educational transition and assist students in understanding the relationship that their curricular experiences and academic achievements will have on subsequent educational opportunities.
- Assist parents and families in order to provide a supportive environment in which students can become effective learners and achieve success in pursuit of appropriate educational goals.
- Provide training, orientation, and consultation assistance to faculty, administrators, staff, and school officials to assist them in responding to the social, emotional, and educational development of all students.
- Collaborate with teachers, administrators, and other educators in ensuring that appropriate educational experiences are provided that allow all students to achieve success.
- Assist in the process of identifying and addressing the needs of the exceptional student.
- Apply knowledge of legal and ethical issues related to child abuse and mandatory reporting.
- Advocate for the educational needs of students and work to ensure that these needs are addressed at every level of the school experience.
- Career development, education, and post-secondary planning:
- Assist students in the assessment of their individual strengths, weaknesses, and differences, including those that relate to academic achievement and future plans.
- Apply knowledge of career assessment and career choice programs.
- Implement occupational and educational placement, follow-up and evaluation.
- Develop a counseling network and provide resources for use by students in personalizing the exploration of postsecondary educational opportunities.
- Promote the use of school counseling and educational and career planning activities and programs involving the total school community to provide a positive school climate.
- Facilitate district programming for transition needs and requirements for all students.
- Have a strong understanding and sensitivity to the social and cultural needs of the community:
- Demonstrate awareness of and sensitivity to the unique social, cultural, and economic circumstances of students and their racial/ethnic, gender, age, physical, and learning differences.
- Demonstrate sensitivity to the nature and the functioning of the student within the family, school and community contexts.
- Demonstrate the counseling and consultation skills needed to facilitate informed and appropriate action in response to the needs of students.