Guidance Counselor Team Member

LAUREN MCGEACHY

● 347-***-**** ● adu94m@r.postjobfree.com ● 1765 Prospect Place, Brooklyn, NY

11233

CAREER OBJECTIVE

A highly organized goal-oriented counseling professional with outstanding level leadership potential that is devoted and supportive in assisting people in their personal growth and helping them reach their maximum potential. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and abilities to handle multiple tasks simultaneously. Strong classroom management skills and strategies in a school environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Guidance Counselor New World Prep Charter School Staten Island, NY Jan. 2016 - PRESENT

Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

Provides individual and group counseling services to meet the developmental, preventive, and remedial needs of students both inside and out of the classroom. Each student must be seen at least six times per school year.

Facilitate Professional Learning Community Planning Time for Kid Talk Sessions

Act as a resource to teachers in their instructional practice, especially as it relates to issues of discipline, relationships with students, classroom management, and school culture

Assist students with high school applications, TACHS exams for Catholic School Admissions

Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.

Work as a team member with the other education staff, parents, and Parent Committee members to develop a curriculum that is meaningful and meets the individual child, family, and program needs.

Use data to document the results of strategies and interventions that are used to improve student academic performance

Implementing and facilitating educational and training workshops for academic staff.

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Teacher Medgar Evers College Head Start Brooklyn, New York Jul. 2008 - Jan. 2016 Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

Responsible for the bi-weekly preparation of daily lesson plans, which includes objectives to be posted for parents, volunteers, and visitors in the classroom.

Provide guidance and direct support service to individuals, groups of students, and families to develop education plans and career awareness.

Develops an individual plan for each child to include goal setting based on the identified needs of the child. Schedules home visits and parent-teacher conferences with families as required and one on one meeting as needed and document these events.

Address community groups, faculty, and staff members to explain available counseling services. Complete screenings such as I-9, I-10, and the Brigance, which are tools geared towards establishing students’ growth and development.

Complete anecdotal recordings, which focus on emphasizing student growth and development through documented observations.

Plan and conduct orientation programs and group conferences to promote the adjustment of individuals to new life experiences such as starting college. Assistant/Interviewer Baltimore Child Abuse Center Baltimore, Maryland Sep. 2006-Aug 2008 Key Responsibilities & Achievements:

Communicate with the Police Dept and the D.A office

Enhance interpersonal skills while directing interviews with respondents

Spoke to parents and/or guardians about issues that brought them in.

During the interview with the child, I would take notes of the interview.

From the notes, I would complete reports and send them where they needed to go.

Enter data accurately into the system and transmitting daily to the study's home.

Perform other duties as assigned by management

EDUCATION

2021- Present MCNY, NY,NY Masters of Education Community Health Education 2010 – 2012 Long Island University Brooklyn, New York Masters of Education in School Counseling

2003 - 2008 Coppin State University Baltimore, Maryland Bachelor of Science in Psychology

PERSONAL REFERENCES

Available upon request

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