GUIDANCE PROGRAM (2).docx
- 1. RAQUEL C. PILI MAED GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING Final Output on Guidance counseling and techniques COMPREHENSIVE GUIDANCE PROGRAM: Rationale Guidance and counseling are provisions of assistance for students, which aims at assisting students in the introduction of potential, needs and developmental tasks as well as meeting the needs and tasks dealing with the student’s development. In providing services for students, guidance and counseling are not only for students who have problems, but for all students who need to be given guidance with the hope of fulfilling the needs so that it can run optimally. To follow up the above thoughts, guidance and counseling focused on identifying the needs of learners, parents and schools. The important roles of guidance and counseling in helping learners achieve developmental tasks are listed in the Standards of Student Self-Reliance Competence developed by ABKIN. To support the achievement of the optimum student developmental tasks, a comprehensive counseling and counseling program with the collaboration of all school stakeholders was established. A guidance program is a guide in carrying out tasks or activities that will be done in the implementation and it is flexible. According to guidance program is a series of planned, organized and coordinated guidance activities during a certain period. Objectives The program aims at providing a structure to help the program to meet the guidance and counseling needs of all student, help students understand themselves, build meaningful relationships with others, help student plan and achieve educational goals and explore personal career paths, provide consultation and coordination services to educator, parent, administrators, and others who work with students, etc. Organizational Structure
- 2. Functions and Responsibilities 1. Chairman – better known as educational administrator or dean who, according to Good, is any educational officer responsible for the management or direction of some parts of an educational establishment system. - Typically, it includes such officers as college presidents, school superintendents, principals and school heads. - In any case, the fundamental responsibilities of the administrator include leadership in the organization and reorganization of guidance services, stimulation of guidance-minded attitude among the members of the guidance staff by means of some form of orientation and in-service education. 2. Homeroom and classroom teachers – one unit of school administration which is under the direct supervision of a teacher known as the homeroom sponsor and which serves as a second home to the pupils assigned to it for purposes of guidance and for the administration of certain school activities. - His aims is to develop desirable pupil-teacher relationships, to assist in the guidance of pupils, to develop desirable ideals and habits – personal and civic, and to expedite the handling of administrative routine. 3. Teacher-counselor – the pivotal point around which all guidance services must revolve if desired outcomes are to be achieved. - Serves as guidance of the pupils’ behavior and attitude. He enjoys many guidance and counseling opportunities as the only teacher in the grade school, as adviser to student activities at the high school level or class instructor and activity sponsor in college. 4. Coordinators and Counselors – has a multiple role. He has administrative responsibility by rendering service to staff members. He helps coordinate the guidance services between the administrator and staff members. He counsels students. - he makes and follows-up case studies, assists teachers together with counselors. Prepares materials for occupational information, assists the librarian in securing guidance materials and secures the help of the dean, psychiatrists, psychologists, parents, civic organizations, etc. 5. Specialists – First in the list are the health personnel – doctors, nurses and dentists. And other specialists are psychologist (administers, corrects and interprets the results of standardized tests, usually group test), psychiatrist (deals with mental and emotional problems) and social workers (study the pupil’s homelife and out-of-school conditions and cooperate with the counselors and teachers in understanding the underlying causes of undesirable behavior.
- 3. 6. The Librarian – help young people find reference materials, thus coming to know them intimately. - Can give great assistance to the pupils in meeting problems of pupil- adjustment, in the absence of someone in whom they can confide their problems, difficulties, and frustrations. 7. Parents – first factor of influence in a child’s life is the home. Thus, close cooperation between principal or dean and teachers on one hand and the parents on the other should be achieved. - a greatly vitalized phase of the guidance program is the Parent-Teacher- Association(PTA), in as much as the responsibility for guidance in the home lies with the parents and that in the school with the teacher. 8. The Community – most important resource for guidance. Local civic, professional, health and welfare agencies like the Rotary Club have rendered valuable cooperation with the school in carrying out the guidance program. Guidance Services 1. Orientation Service Develop awareness regarding the rules and regulations, functioning patterns and available infrastructural and physical facilities in the school or institution or work place. Acquaint the students with the concerned staff and the student body. Provide opportunities for the staff members and student body to interact with the new comers. Develop favorable attitudes among the students both towards the school and the staff. 2. Pupil Inventory Service to identify the various abilities of students by administration of various tests; and to maintain various records concerned with each student and update them periodically. 3. Occupational Information Service To create an awareness of the necessary occupational and educational information; To develop a broad and realistic view of the various educational, training and occupational opportunities; and To help the student obtain and interpret the information he/she needs in making specific plans for his/her future career. 4. Counselling Service The purpose of it is to assist the students in the process of all round development. It provides an opportunity to the individual to discuss their plans and problems with a professional or counsellor in a helping environment.
- 4. 5. Placement Service It is an activity which requires the co-operation of the principal, counsellor, teacher, career master, state employment agencies, private agencies and also the community. This service is more significant for the students at the secondary and higher secondary level. 6. Follow-up Service it becomes very essential in a guidance programme to learn the nature and extent of progress of the student even after he leaves the school. This service does not only pertain to the study of occupational aspect but also to other related aspects such as emotional and social adjustments. Action Plan/ Programs/Activities The following steps to be undertaken to plan the guidance programme: 1.First make a survey of the available guidance services existing in the school or institution. 2.Identify the student needs (or) areas where assistance is required. 3.Obtain the opinion of the staff members and ascertain the extent of assistance possible from them. 4.Statement of explicit objective for the guidance programme on the basis of the student needs. 5.Specification of the various functions of each guidance service. 6.Assignment and defining of duties to each personnel, who are the members of the guidance committee. For the smooth functioning of guidance service, a well-planned guidance programme is necessary. It facilitates co-ordination of activities among the personnel in an integrated pattern. Facilities A counseling center should be established in each school to implement a comprehensive school counseling program. The center should be accessible to all students including those with disabilities. Facility Requirements: Appropriate space for individual and group counseling and large group programs A private office for the school counselor that is designed with the student’s right to privacy and confidentiality Adequate space to organize and display school counseling materials. Budget An adequate school counseling budget shall be established to reflect program needs. The counseling staff shall be included in the budget planning. Counselors should provide information regarding funds needed and knowledge of other funding sources that may be available. Such information should be included in the management agreement.