Job Description
1) The Counselor is appointed to serve the students community both on Academic deficiencies behavioral problems and other miscellaneous difficulties of the students or the children.
2) The counselor is to act as a compliment and supplement to the teachers.
3) The counselor plays the role of a mentor a moral instructor and an academic adviser and a personal friend of the student and at times to be more than the parents in attitude and compassion.
4) The best part of a Counselor would be to earn the entire confidence of any student coming to her and she must prove that any confidential and private problems and difficulties of any student could be revealed to her without any hesitation for redressal.
5) The Counselor could act to assess and identify the befitting cases for counselling either by class visits / assessments or through the feedback from the HOI or from the respective class teachers or subject teachers.
6) Once the students are identified for counselling she may operate her counselling in a group or on a one-to-one basis.
7) One-to-one basis is recommended only when the cases are so acute and totally complex, but if the difficulties are of common nature such as attention deficit, slow reading, slow writing etc it could be dealt with in a small group and when a mass related i.e., a class problems are brought addressing the whole class as a mass would be preferred.
8) As the counselor is supposed to be a qualified psychologist, both academic and behavioural emotional problems should be dealt with on the basis of the theoretical and practical knowledge she / he has
9) The constant and continuous consultation with the HOI and other dealing teachers must be a constant endeavor of the counselor.
10) Documentation The counselor must maintain a record of the students, the cases of the students, measures taken up by the counselor and end results. A periodical assessment report at least once a month may be prepared and submitted to the HOI about the progress of every individual student or child.
