Middle School Counselor

2024-2025 School Year    

 Parkrose Middle School                                                                                                                        

*Salary Range: $50,756 - $95,212; PLUS employer-paid retirement, and generous benefits package

Hours:  40 hours per week

Days:  194 days per year
Deadline: Open Until Filled

Overview:   The position of counselor is to provide services to meet the needs of students; consult with teachers, staff and parents to enhance effectiveness in helping students; and to provide support to other school educational programs.   The position of “counselor” performs under the supervision of a principal or other designated supervisor and has responsibility for the instruction and supervision of students.   Supervision of students shall include guidance, development and safety.   The counselor functions in accordance with District approved curriculum, policies, rules, regulations and the performance standards of the District/State and the performance goals established for the counselor. The counselor maintains a cooperative attitude with staff, parents and students.   Parkrose expects counselors to be aware of and maintain “The competent educator standards” found in the Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR 584-020-0010) which is attached to this job description.

Job Requirements:

• A valid Oregon teaching certificate with appropriate endorsement from the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) is required upon hiring. It is the employee’s responsibility to maintain their license and acquire the necessary credits to renew.
• Elementary Counseling Endorsement
• Ability to prepare lesson plans effectively
• Maintain positive interpersonal relationships
• Document student progress
• Knowledge of age-appropriate teaching methods, state curriculum framework, education code, appropriate instructional subjects.
• Multicultural Competency 

Skills and Abilities:

• Skill in identifying the needs of a group of students as well as individual students and provides for continuous assessment of their ability.
• Skills to motivate students and communicate with individuals from varied educational and cultural backgrounds
• Ability to promote high levels of achievement in relation to individual student abilities
• Use of techniques and methodologies appropriate to student abilities
• Knowledge of and ability to use research-based principles of effective instruction
• Organize Instruction using learning objectives with clearly defined student outcomes
• Employ teaching strategies congruent with planned student outcomes
• Select teaching strategies emphasizing student involvement
• Assess student for the purpose of providing feedback to students, parents and administration regarding students’ progress, expectations, goals, etc.
• Monitor student learning and pace instruction accordingly
• Documentation of student progress – provide timely and accurate feedback and documentation to students, parents and appropriate staff members
• Ability to develop and maintain an environment conducive to effective student learning

Preferred training and/or experience in the following District Strategies:

• Bilingual
• Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies
• Response to Instruction
• Sheltered Instruction/SIOP
• Differentiated Instruction
• Professional Learning Communities
• Experience with diverse students preferred

Reports to:  Building Principal or Supervisor

To Apply:  Candidates will complete the Parkrose application online at TalentEd.  In order for your application to be complete, you must submit the documents listed below in addition to the application at TalentEd:  https://parkrose.tedk12.com/hire.

• Cover Letter
• TalentEd Application
• Resume
• Three (3) current letters of recommendation
• Essay Questions:

1. Describe your experience in teaching and/or serving and/or working with a diverse population and underrepresented communities?
2. We have a deep commitment to challenging institutional racism. Can you speak to how you have done this in your practice?

Parkrose is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Applicants with culturally diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

___________________________________________________________________________________________

Position Details

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership and participates on the school’s Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS team.
• Designs and implements strategic (yellow zone) behavior interventions.
• Tracks and monitors student attendance and provides leadership to data teams tracking and analyzing attendance.
• Designs, delivers, evaluates and revises a planned sequential, developmentally appropriate program to include lessons in social emotional learning, personal and academic goal-setting and career development.
• Delivers curriculum in systematic manner to all students.
• Facilitates instructional process in collaboration with school staff and community resources.
• Provides behavioral and emotional support to students to promote academic growth.
• Serves as a community liaison to connect families to school and family resources.
• Communicates course goals and academic expectations to students
• Provides for the health and safety of students in all instructional settings

• Supervises students both in and out of the classroom.  Reports incidents (e.g. fights, suspected child abuse, suspected substance abuse, etc.) for the purpose of maintaining personal safety of students, providing a positive learning environment and adhering to Education Code, district and/or school policies.  

Other Job Functions:

• Directs educational assistants, volunteers and/or student aides for the purpose of providing an effective school program and addressing the needs of individual students.
• Performs other duties which may be assigned.
• Participate in District-sponsored in-service offerings, PLC meetings, etc. appropriate to assignment
• Assist other teachers for the purpose of implementing curriculum

Work Expectations:

• Regular attendance at work and activities must be maintained
• Punctual in meeting deadlines, attending meetings and following schedules
• Maintains confidential information relating to students, families and colleagues

License, Certifications, Bonding, and/or Testing Required: 

• Oregon Department of Education - Criminal Justice Fingerprint Clearance
  • Cost to employee: of $12.50 for fingerprinting; $66.00 for background check (one-time deduction from first paycheck)
• First Aid/CPR/AED certification or the ability to obtain

Physical Requirements:

• In an eight (8) hour day the teacher may:
  • Stand/walk – 3 – 6 hours
  • Sit - 2 – 4 hours
• The teacher will need:
  • Near/far visual acuity, depth perception. unaffected field of vision, unaffected hearing and the

ability to evacuate students from classrooms/buildings

• The teacher may occasionally:
  • Bend, kneel, squat, climb stairs or ladders. use hands for repetitive motions and lift/carry/reach

*Salary Range:  Please note the Certified Bargaining Agreement article 16.2.2 listed below that is used by our District to determine placement on the experience steps.

Article 16.2.2

Out of Parkrose: Full credit shall be granted for each year of full-time professionally or academically licensed experience in the public schools, grades K-12. For non- teachers, the experience must be related to the District assignment. Substitute teaching shall not be counted unless it was done on a full-time contract basis. Credit for experience related to the District assignment in districts outside Parkrose will not be given for a part of a year unless two (2) or fewer segments will total at least one hundred thirty-five (135) days.

OREGON ADMINISTRATIVE RULES (OAR) 584-020-0010

The Competent Educator

The educator demonstrates a commitment to:

(1) Recognize the worth and dignity of all persons and respect for each individual;

(2) Encourage scholarship;

(3) Promote democratic and inclusive citizenship;

(4) Raise educational standards;

(5) Use professional judgment; and

(6) Promote equitable learning opportunities.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 342
Stats. Implemented: ORS 342.143 & 342.175 - 342.190
Hist.: TS 5-1979, f. 12-19-79, ef. 1-1-80; TSPC 7-2007, f. & cert. ef. 12-14-07

584-020-0015

Curriculum and Instruction

(1) The competent educator measures success by the progress of each student toward realization of personal potential as a worthy and effective citizen. The competent educator stimulates the spirit of inquiry, the acquisition of knowledge and understanding, and the thoughtful formulation of goals as they are appropriate for each individual.

(2) The competent teacher demonstrates:

(a) Use of state and district adopted curriculum and goals;

(b) Skill in setting instructional goals and objectives expressed as learning outcomes;

(c) Use of current subject matter appropriate to the individual needs of students;

(d) Use of students' growth and development patterns to adjust instruction to individual needs consistent with the number of students and amount of time available; and

(e) Skill in the selection and use of teaching techniques conducive to student learning.

(3) The competent administrator demonstrates:

(a) Skill in assisting individual staff members to become more competent educators by complying with federal, state and local laws, rules, and lawful and reasonable district policy and contracts;

(b) Knowledge of curriculum and instruction appropriate to assignment;

(c) Skill in implementing instructional programs through adequate communication with staff; and

(d) Skill in identifying and initiating any needed change which helps each student toward realization of personal learning potential.

Stat. Auth.: ORS 342
Stats. Implemented: ORS 342.143 & 342.175 - 342.190
Hist.: TS 5-1979, f. 12-19-79, ef. 1-1-80; TS 7-1983, f. & ef. 12-14-83; TSPC 7-2007, f. & cert. ef. 12-14-07

584-020-0020

Supervision and Evaluation

(1) The competent educator is a student of human behavior and uses this knowledge to provide a climate that is conducive to learning and that respects the rights of all persons without discrimination. The competent educator assumes responsibility for the activities planned and conducted through the district's program, and assists colleagues to do the same. The competent educator gathers relevant information and uses it in the planning and evaluation of instructional activities.

(2) The competent teacher demonstrates:

(a) Multiple ways to assess the academic progress of individual students;

(b) Skill in the application of assessment data to assist individual student growth;

(c) Procedures for evaluating curriculum and instructional goals and practices;

(d) Skill in the supervision of students; and

(e) Skill in differentiating instruction.

(3) The competent administrator demonstrates:

(a) Skill in the application of assessment data to provide effective instructional programs;

(b) Skill in the implementation of the district's student evaluation program;

(c) Skill in providing equal opportunity for all students and staff; and

(d) Skill in the use of employee and leadership techniques appropriate to the assignment and according to well established standards which ensure due process for the staff for which the administrator is responsible for evaluating.