School Counselor
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Atmosphere. You enable students tolearn in a safe, open, caring, collaborative and inclusiveatmosphere. Your students feel confident to have open and honestconversations about their learning and how they can get better. Youcreate a positive atmosphere by building relationships, behaviors,and inclusive learning experiences that support a good struggle forall your learners. You engage in professional and respectfuldialogue with colleagues and the wider school and ISP communitiesabout learning and teaching, with a shared commitment to gettingbetter.Shared Ideas. You know and model yourschool's values and contribute to its mission and visionthrough your daily actions. Through all aspects of learning andteaching, you create a strong sense of shared behaviors and purposefor learners and their learning.Leadership forLearning. You see yourself as a leader for learning and demonstratethe same vision, values and commitment as school leaders to supportstudents to continuously learn and get better. You takeresponsibility for where students are now with their learning andthe targets and action steps needed to improve. You supportstudents to become leaders of their own learning by helping themdevelop their voice, choice and ownership of their learningprocess.Learning Spaces. You create and usespaces to support and demonstrate the school's sharedideas about learners and learning and the ways in which studentsare getting better. You ensure learning spaces (physical anddigital) are safe, collaborative, accessible and inclusive, andenable students to play an active role in theirdevelopment.In Partnership with Parents andCarers. You work in partnership with parents and carers,communicating with them regularly about their child'slearning, inviting their feedback and using this feedback toimprove learning. You help parents and carers understand theschool's shared ideas about learners and learning in waysthat help them to engage confidently when talking about what theirchild is getting better at, what their next steps are, and how theywill be supported at home. You ensure that the individual needs ofparents and carers are understood and that they feel informed andinvolved as valued members of the school's learningcommunity.Improvement Planning. You arecommitted to learning and getting better and ensure thisimprovement happens strategically and effectively. You are activeand accountable for your contribution in setting your ownprofessional goals, targets and action steps that focus onimproving learning and gathering evidence to demonstrate these. Youcontribute to department and school learning improvement planningwhere possible and view the school's learning improvementplan as the central focus for getting bettertogether.
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