DOMAIN 1 FOR SOCIAL WORKER / COUNSELOR: PLANNING AND PREPARATION
Component
Level of Performance
Unsatisfactory
Basic
Proficient
1a. Demonstrating
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor
knowledge and skills in the
demonstrates little or no
demonstrates limited
demonstrates adequate
field of Social Work and
knowledge and skills in the
knowledge and skills in the
knowledge and skills in the
Counseling, including
area of social work
field of social work /
field of social work /
counseling and therapeutic
/counseling.
counseling.
counseling.
techniques.
1b. Plans and establishes
Social Worker / Counselor has Social Worker / Counselor has Social Worker / Counselor has
goals for interventions and
established no goals for
limited plans and goals for
adequate plans and goals for
services appropriate to the
interventions and services
interventions and services
interventions and services
setting and students served
appropriate to the setting and appropriate to the setting and appropriate to the setting and
who have an IEP for social
students served who have an students served who have an students served who have an
work support.
IEP for social work support.
IEP for social work support.
IEP for social work support.
1c. Demonstrating
knowledge of state / federal
regulations and of resources
both within and beyond the
school district.
1d. Developing a plan to
evaluate therapeutic
interventions and services.
Social Worker / Counselor
demonstrates little or no
knowledge of state / federal
regulations and resources
both within and beyond the
school district.
Social Worker / Counselor has
no plan to evaluate
therapeutic interventions and
services or resists suggestions
that such an evaluation is
important.
Social Worker / Counselor
displays awareness of state /
federal regulations and
limited knowledge of
community resources.
Social Worker / Counselor
displays adequate awareness
of state / federal regulations
and familiarity of community
resources.
Social Worker / Counselor has
a plan to evaluate therapeutic
interventions and services.
Social Worker / Counselor’s
plan to evaluate therapeutic
interventions and services is
organized around clear goals
and the collection of data to
indicate the degree to which
the goals have been met.
Distinguished
Social Worker / Counselor
demonstrates extensive
knowledge and skills in the
field of social work /
counseling.
Social Worker / Counselor has
developed plans and goals
in collaboration with others
for interventions and
services that are highly
appropriate to the setting and
students served who have an
IEP for social work support.
Social Worker / Counselor
displays extensive knowledge
of state / federal regulations
as well as, district and
community resources.
Social Worker / Counselor’s
plan to evaluate therapeutic
interventions and services, is
highly sophisticated with
imaginative sources of data
and direction toward
improving the interventions
and services on an ongoing
basis.
DOMAIN 2 FOR SOCIAL WORKER / COUNSELOR: THE ENVIRONMENT
Component
Level of Performance
Unsatisfactory
Basic
Proficient
2a. Establishing respect and
Social Worker / Counselor’s
Social Worker / Counselor’s
Social Worker / Counselor’s
rapport with students.
interactions with students are interactions with students are interactions with students are
negative and the Social
a mix of positive and
positive and respectful. Social
Worker / Counselor does not negative; the Social Worker / Worker / Counselor makes
promote positive interactions. Counselor makes limited
adequate efforts to promote
efforts to promote positive
positive interactions; students
interactions.
appear comfortable.
2b. Organizing time
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor
effectively.
demonstrates difficulty in
demonstrates some degree of demonstrates good judgment
setting priorities and time
ability to set priorities; timein setting priorities; timemanagement.
management skills are carried management skills are carried
out with limited efficiency.
out with adequate efficiency.
2c. Establishing and
Social Worker / Counselor has Social Worker / Counselor has Social Worker / Counselor has
maintaining procedures for
not established procedures
established procedures for
established adequate
referrals.
for referrals.
referrals but details are not
procedures for referrals
always communicated.
developed in consultation
with administration, faculty
and parents.
2d. Establishing standards of
conduct in the school /
therapeutic setting and
contributing to the culture
for student behavior
throughout the school.
Social Worker / Counselor
does not demonstrate
standards of conduct for
students during the school /
therapeutic setting and
makes inadequate
contributions to maintaining
civility throughout the school.
Social Worker / Counselor
demonstrates standards of
conduct for students during
the school / therapeutic
setting that are partially
successful and attempts with
limited success, to contribute
to the level of civility
throughout the school.
Social Worker / Counselor
demonstrates standards of
conduct for students during
the school / therapeutic
setting that are adequate and
makes a significant
contribution to the
environment of civility
throughout the school.
2e. Organizing for the
provision of interventions
and services to students.
Social Worker / Counselor is
poorly prepared. Necessary
materials are difficult to find
when needed.
Social Worker / Counselor is
not well prepared. Necessary
materials are sometimes
difficult to find when needed.
Social Worker / Counselor is
well prepared. Necessary
materials are available when
needed.
Distinguished
Students seek out the Social
Worker / Counselor;
interactions with students are
exemplary reflecting a high
degree of comfort and trust.
Social Worker / Counselor
demonstrates exemplary
judgment in setting priorities;
time-management skills are
carried out with efficiency.
Social Worker / Counselor has
established exemplary
procedures for all aspects of
referrals developed in
collaboration with
administration, faculty and
parents.
Social Worker / Counselor
demonstrates standards of
conduct for school /
therapeutic setting and
students contribute to
maintaining them. Social
Worker / Counselor takes a
leadership role in maintaining
the environment of civility
throughout the school.
Social Worker / Counselor are
prepared and able to
conveniently access necessary
materials when needed;
creating an atmosphere of
efficiency and effectiveness.
DOMAIN 3 FOR SOCIAL WORKER / COUNSELOR: DELIVERY OF SERVICE
Component
Level of Performance
Unsatisfactory
Basic
Proficient
3a. Responding with
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor
flexibility and assessing
fails to respond to referrals or responds to referrals and
promptly responds to
student needs.
makes hasty assessment of
makes adequate assessment
referrals; assessments
student needs.
of student needs.
thoroughly identify student
needs.
3b. Collecting information
Social Worker / Counselor’s
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor
and writing reports.
reports, records and
reports, records and
reports, records and
documentation are missing,
documentation are partially
documentation are accurate
late or inaccurate.
accurate and occasionally
and are submitted in a timely
late.
manner.
3c. Developing and
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor
implementing plans to
plans are not congruent with
plans are partially congruent
plans are congruent with the
maximize students’ success.
student needs.
with student needs.
identified needs of the
student.
3d. Collaboration with
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor
community resources in an
does not collaborate with
efforts to collaborate with
efforts to collaborate with
effort to meet student and
community resources in
community resources in
community resources in
family needs.
meeting the needs of
meeting the needs of
meeting the needs of
students and family.
students and family are
students and family are
partially successful.
adequate.
Distinguished
Social Worker / Counselor is
proactive in responding to
referrals and makes highly
competent assessments of
student needs.
A Social Worker / Counselor
approach to record keeping is
highly systematic and
efficient.
Social Worker / Counselor
develops and implements
plans to maximize student
success.
Social Worker / Counselor
efforts to collaborate with
community resources in
meeting the needs of
students and families are
exemplary.
DOMAIN 4 FOR SOCIAL WORKER / COUNSELOR: PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Component
Level of Performance
Unsatisfactory
Basic
Proficient
4a. Collaborating and
Social Worker / Counselor is
Social Worker / Counselor is
Social Worker / Counselor
communicating with
not available for questions or available for questions or
initiates contact and provides
administrators, colleagues,
planning and provides no
planning and provides limited adequate information.
and families.
information.
information.
4b. Establish an effective
Social Worker / Counselor
Social Worker / Counselor has Social Worker / Counselor has
system for using data to
does not have a data system
a limited data system that can an adequate data system that
monitor the progress of
that can be used to monitor
be used to monitor student
can be used to monitor
students who have an IEP for student progress for those
progress for those who have
student progress for those
social work support.
who have an IEP for social
an IEP for social work
who have an IEP for social
work support.
support.
work support.
4c. Engaging in professional
development.
4d. Showing professionalism.
Social Worker / Counselor
does not participate in
professional development
activities, even when such
activities would benefit the
ongoing development of
skills.
Social Worker / Counselor
demonstrates disrespect in
interactions with others and
violates the principals of
confidentiality.
Social Worker / Counselor
participation in professional
development activities is
limited to those that are
required.
Social Worker / Counselor
seeks out opportunities to
participate in professional
development activities based
on an individual assessment
of need.
Social Worker / Counselor
demonstrates limited respect
in interactions with others.
Does not violate the
principals of confidentiality.
Social Worker / Counselor
demonstrates high standards
of respect, integrity, and
confidentiality in interactions
with others and advocates for
students.
Distinguished
Social Worker / Counselor
initiates contact and solicits
and utilizes various
perspectives.
Social Worker / Counselor has
an adequate data system that
can be used to monitor
student progress for those
who have an IEP for social
work support . Social Worker
/ Counselor uses information
from the data system to
communicate with others.
Social Worker / Counselor
actively pursues professional
development opportunities
and makes a contribution to
the profession.
Social Worker / Counselor
demonstrates the highest
standards of respect,
integrity, and confidentiality
in interactions and advocates
for students.