Educational Counselor / Lead Educator
The Educational counselor / lead educator will be responsible for the following job functions:
- Design and implement vibrant, engaging, and creative curricula and activities to meet academic standards; and
- Develop for teachers and instructional staff a variety of strategies for maintaining student motivation and interest; and
- Provide education workshops to teachers and instructional staff in conflict resolution, communication skills, healthy work habits and other topics as deemed necessary; and
- Develop educational and cultural programs in Spanish to improve students' reading, writing, pronunciation, and grammar skills; and
- Develop lesson plans that ensure the attainment of state learning standards; and
- Enforce among teachers the use of preventive discipline and communicate expectations to students clearly; and
- Coordinate lesson plans with other teachers to maximize possibilities for teaching similar topics in the same general time frame, thus reinforcing student knowledge on an interdisciplinary basis; and
- Collaborate with other instructional staff in long and short term planning that addresses students' individual goals; and
- Working with Director to use assessment data to refine curriculum and inform instructional practices; and
- Implement long and short-term planning addressing individual needs of students; and
- Participate in staff meetings that support the planning and coordination of school's activities and school-planned professional development as well as engage in a school-wide practice of continuous self-improvement and a relentless drive for improvement of school practices; and
- Lead teachers and other instructional staff member for better assessments and pedagogy with students; and
- Prepare and maintain an up-to-date program manual with detailed program descriptions for use in orientation and training of teachers and instructional aid staff; and
- When required, evaluate students' progress, maintaining high expectations for each student; and
- Review teacher's monthly individual student achievement reports for parents; and
- Implement individual and family counseling, based on the needs of the participants and resource availability. Make referrals to outside agencies as appropriate and when needed; and
- Provide an inviting, exciting, innovative, learning environment; and
- Design and establish effective classroom management strategies/routines in a way conducive to student learning while providing students with an emotionally safe environment; and
- Serve as advisor/counselor to teachers, students and their parents; and
- Foster a strong sense of identity and community amongst all stakeholder in the school; and
- Perform other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the Director.
