Middle School Guidance Counselor
Listed on 2026-03-01
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Education / Teaching
Special Needs / Learning Disabilities, Middle School, Special Education Teacher, Guidance Counselor: Social/Educational
Position Type: Middle School Teaching / Guidance Counselor
Date Posted: 3/19/2025
Location: Johns Hill Magnet School
Date Available: 08/2025
Closing Date: until filled
- Holds a valid Illinois Teaching Certificate
- Holds a certificate as a guidance counselor
- Bachelor's Degree
- The ability to function effectively as a member of the school staff.
Reports To: The Principal or Designee
Supervises: As Assigned
Maintains Liaison With: Parents, Staff, and Administration. Communicates on a regular basis or as requested by parents, staff, or administration.
Job Goal: To help middle school students adjust to the many changing aspects of adolescence, and to aid the students and teachers in gaining as much academic improvement as possible.
Performance Responsibilities- A. Observe students in their classrooms and other school settings.
- B. Concentrate efforts in the area of student development through individual and group counseling. Emphasis will be placed on helping students develop skills in resolving conflicts, making decisions, improving interpersonal relationships with students and staff, preventing situations that would disrupt the learning environment, and coping with uncomfortable situations.
- C. Work with students to explore and plan educational career opportunities. Maintain the Individual Career Planning folder for each student (ICP).
- D. Work cooperatively with teachers, school psychologist, and social worker in coordinating staffing, applying staffing recommendations through counseling, and providing professional input for special education students at staffing.
- E. Maintain student cumulative records, interpret records for students and parents, and make student records accessible to the teaching staff. This would include the ICP.
- F. Maintain contact with building administration to ensure a coordinated effort and program to help students develop responsibility for their behavior.
- G. Know community agencies that can assist students and coordinate community agencies where applicable.
- A. Work with the staff in determining the needs of the students.
- B. Advise teachers on the social, emotional, and career development of the middle school student.
- C. Work with individual teachers to assist with situations that will improve teachers' effectiveness with middle school students.
- D. Work with staff to coordinate and implement a group guidance program.
- E. Coordinate and administer State and District wide tests.
- F. Use grammatically correct English in verbal and written communications.
- A. Maintain and submit accurate and timely records/reports as required by law, Board policy, and administrative guidelines.
- B. Follow building and district rules, procedures, and policies.
Salary is based upon Schedules A & B of the collective negotiated Agreement.
EvaluationEach employee in contractual continuing service shall be evaluated at least once every two (2) years. Each employee not in continuing contractual service shall be evaluated once every year.
Physical DemandsHandle work which deals mostly with people, objects, equipment in a general setting; depth perception and field of vision are important. Employee regularly is required to bend, stoop, twist, turn, reach, lift (up to 50 pounds), carry, pull, push, climb, and kneel; walking and standing approximately 50-75% of each shift. Employee must recognize differences in sound, such as voices/noises that are loud and playful instead of angry and combative;
ability to differentiate tones and volumes in conversation.
The teacher must ensure that children are supervised at all times, and that children are involved in safe and appropriate activities. There may be a number of situations happening at once, and the teacher must be prepared to handle accidents and emergencies at any time.
Work EnvironmentThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The teacher will be working in a busy and occasionally noisy environment. There may be a number of activities and situations happening at once, and the teacher will have to supervise all students at all times.
This position falls under the Decatur Education Association (DEA) Contract - .
Benefit information can be found Here.
The salary schedule is attached above.
Attachments- 500.33B - Guidance Counselor-Middle School.doc
- salary schedule - DEA.pdf
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