Guidance & Counselling 

 

The Guidance Program aims to look after the “wellness” of each student. It aims to provide a structured program of services through various activities targeting four areas of development: academic career, personal and social development as well as community involvement, ensuring all students regardless of individual differences, become effective students, productive workers, responsible citizens, and lifelong learners.

 

SERVICES OFFERED:

  • The Orientation Service is an organized and systematic approach by which relevant information is made available to the students, parents, and teachers. Its primary objective is to allow students and parents to acquire necessary information about the school – its purposes and objectives, the nature of the student’s life and be able to make adjustments easily and to feel a sense of security and belongingness.

  • It is a well-organized and efficient data-gathering activity organized for the primary purpose of assessing individual and group needs as well as getting an overview of the student population using psychometric devices. The data gathered is used to further the personal and academic growth of the students.

  • A longitudinal, organized and systematic process of collecting, recording, and utilizing information about each student of his home and family background, his intellectual and social development, and other pertinent information gathered from psychological tests, interviews, and counseling as he progresses through school. This is to assist each student to know himself better as well as for self-realization.

  • This is the core function of the office; it is gender-sensitive and non-discriminative. It is a service through which each student is helped to understand himself concerning his unique and developing world through an opportunity of free expression bound with confidentiality.

  • The follow-up service of the Guidance and Counseling Program includes pursuing the progress of students towards attaining the solution to a problem referred for counseling.

  • It is through this service that data gathered through other Guidance services such as counseling, testing, and inventory are utilized, investigated, and studied to improve the guidance program and/or come up with recommendations that may improve students’ behavior and/or performance.

  • Career Guidance programs aim to provide help and directions to students on how to choose and build a career for their future professions by recognizing their interests, abilities, and challenges they might encounter. The program presents opportunities for students to explore the different possibilities and the options that are, can be made, available to them.

  • It is an organized guidance service which aims at helping the students enhance and develop the necessary skills to cope with the social-civic and academic demand of the school. Activities relevant to this service are incorporated into the formulation or creation of homeroom guidance.