ACE Club/21st Century Enrichment and Engagement Counselor
Job Description
NYOS Charter School
Job Title: ACE Club/21st Century Enrichment and Engagement Counselor
Reports to: 21st Century Program Coordinator
Service days: Varies
About NYOS
NYOS, an acronym for “Not Your Ordinary School”, is an open-enrollment public charter school with 2 campuses, located in North Austin. NYOS provides a unique learning experience where all students strive for academic excellence in a close-knit community. We strive to build leaders to serve and succeed in a global society. NYOS encourages excellence through service learning, brain-based teaching, and low student-teacher ratios.
Primary Role:
Support the mission, purpose, and goals of the ACE after-school program and create a safe and supportive environment where students can receive academic and enrichment opportunities during out-of-school time. Ultimately, all ACE activities focus on helping at-risk students meet state academic standards, with a special emphasis on post-secondary education.
Qualifications:
- Experience working with Elementary-age students is required.
- Teaching experience and certification is preferred.
Professional Responsibilities and Duties:
Enrichment Strategies:
Counselors leading Enrichment courses will envision, create, plan, and facilitate developmentally appropriate courses.
Enrichment courses should align to one of the following areas: math, literacy, science, social studies, writing, STEAM, Social & Emotional Learning, Arts and Humanities, Civic Engagement, Leadership, Financial Literacy, College & Career Readiness, and student areas of interest
Critical Steps for Enrichment Teachers
- Transition students from classrooms to designated enrichment activity areas.
- Prepare lesson plans and necessary materials daily for each activity.
- Provide supervision for all students in the given activity, including behavior management best practices that align with the school day discipline system.
- Set up, support, and monitor student activity rotations including centers, games, recess, snacks, story time, or Learning Lab. (Materials will be provided to counselors leading engagement activities)
- Participate as required to ensure accurate reporting/tracking:
- Weekly Enrollment and Snack Report
- Monthly Activity Code Participation Report
- Assist in snack counting inventory and distribution process as required.
- Assist in student arrival, transition, and departure procedures.
- Assist in special events and site clean-up daily.
Professional Requirements:
- Maintain strict confidentiality regarding information concerning students, parents, staff, and classroom incidents.
- Adhere to ethical and legal standards and model behavior that is professional and responsible.
- Participate in approved professional development to improve skills related to job assignments.
- Follow NYOS standard procedures for communication, interaction, and discipline as outlined in the NYOS Staff Handbook.
Work Environment: This job operates in a school environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
Physical Demands: This position is very active and involves standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and move items up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
(Fingerprinting and background checks are mandatory for all applicants)
NYOS Charter School is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, or disability, in hiring or providing education or access to benefits of educational services, activities, and programs. The Executive Director has been designated to coordinate compliance with the nondiscrimination requirements of Title IX. The Director of Special Services has been designated to coordinate compliance with the nondiscrimination requirements of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Both can be reached at 12301 N. Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78753, 512-583-6967.
2024-08-05
