School Counselor - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Teach Away

Ahmed Al-Mansouri

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Description
Contract Length: 2 years

Number of Vacancies: 1


Student Level:

  • Middle School, High School
  • Licensed Teacher

School Requirements:

  • Education Required: Bachelor
Minimum Teaching Experience: 2 years of teaching experience

  • Major: Social and Wellbeing
  • Required Certificates:


  • Teaching Credential/License

  • Other Certification Job Benefits:
  • Family VISA
  • Comprehensive family medical insurance
  • Professional Development Opportunities
  • Annual Airfare
  • Furnished Accommodation

Job Description:


Main Duties:


  • Help students enhance personal, social, and academic growth
  • Monitor the progress of individual students
  • Make contact with parents to discuss student behavior
  • Take steps to prevent bullying and support victims of bullying
  • Help students develop job search skills, such as resume writing and interviewing techniques
  • Help students understand and deal with social, behavior, and personal problems
  • Emphasize preventive and developmental counseling to provide students with life skills needed to deal with problems before they worsen and to enhance students' personal, social, and academic growth.
  • Provide special services such as conflict resolution classes; identify cases of domestic abuse and other family problems that can affect a student's development

Specific Duties:


Group Counseling:


  • Identifies areas that would be appropriate for intervention in the form of group counseling and regularly forms and leads appropriate groups.
  • Utilizes both large (classroom) groups and small groups to make appropriate academic and behavioral interventions.

Career Counseling:


  • Coordinates with the Counsellors regarding career options for students and provides appropriate information to students regarding careers.
  • Assists the counselors in providing students with information for career exploration and selection to assist them in making appropriate academic course selections relating to their interests.
  • Maintains an appropriate library/database relating to various careers for students to utilize in their career explorations.

Personal Counseling:


  • Works with individual students and groups of students regarding appropriate social development issues.
  • Maintains an awareness of cultural influences regarding the social development of adolescents.
  • Monitors students who may be at risk in regard to social issues and makes appropriate referrals for interventions outside of school in consultation with parents.

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