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School counselingpresentaton
The document discusses the role and responsibilities of teachers as counselors in schools. It begins by outlining the objectives of teacher guidance, which include being aware of the teacher's counseling role and understanding counseling skills. It describes counsel as a gift from God and biblical foundations for counseling. Key aspects of a counselor's role are to follow up on student issues, act as a liaison, build self-esteem, and improve relationships and behavior. For schools without dedicated counselors, teachers and administrators must fill this role. The document provides guidance on social counseling, developing relationships with students, counseling steps and skills, as well as situations to avoid like transference. It emphasizes that counseling requires active listening, objectivity, and referring students
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- 1. SCHOOL COUNSELING MELINA V. KAHULUGAN,LPT SHS Teacher Siniloan INHS, Siniloan, Laguna
- 2. SLAC Objectives: ◦ Tobe aware of teacher’s function as class counselor/guidance advocates ◦ To orient one’s self of the attitude, skills and characteristics of teacher-guidance counselor ◦ To have a deep understanding about counseling and what counseling is not
- 3. COUNSEL ◦ One ofthe seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, COUNSEL, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of the Lord ◦ Spiritual Works of Mercy: Instruct the ignorant; admonish the sinner; COUNSEL THE DOUBTFUL; comfort the sorrowful; bear wrongs patiently, forgive all injuries; and pray for the living and the dead.
- 4. BIBLICAL FOUNDATION ◦Where thereis no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety. Proverbs 11:14 ◦Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed. Proverbs 15:22
- 5. A Counselor… ◦is responsiblefor following up with students regarding academic or social issues. ◦acts as a liaison between students, parents, and teachers, helping them to work together to help the student succeed socially and academically.
- 6. A Counselor… ◦ recognizesthe worth and dignity of each student. ◦ helps students build their self-esteem and self-confidence, develop better peer relationships, improve organizational skills, and improve behavior and anger management skills.
- 7. A Teacher…. DOES ALLOF THOSE THINGS
- 9. ◦In DEP EDLaguna there are only few registered guidance counselors among elementary and secondary schools. ◦Schools without enough or ANY counselors have to be able to rely on teachers and administrators to identify troubled students. (ASCA)
- 10. What Do TeachersDo Guidance is an integral part of being a teacher! It is about empowering a student to decide how to accomplish his/her tasks; Not solve problems but facilitating the way and enabling the person to help him/herself.
- 11. ◦Guidance is assistingthe student in making wise choices, plans and adjustment as he/she faces the many crisis life holds.
- 12. Social Counseling The secretsauce in programs that try to improve student behavior is relationship The goal is to get students to feel connected – to their school, to their classmates and to their teachers.
- 13. Two-by-Ten Strategy ◦Developed byeducation professor Raymond Wlodkowski: ◦Teachers spend two minutes a day for ten consecutive days having private conversations with their most challenging students. ◦Teachers leave it up to the student to pick the topic, but may get the ball rolling with a comment or question such as, “You seem especially tired today.”
- 14. ◦Teachers can learna lot about what’s going on in the student’s life and begin to adjust their thinking. ◦Instead of seeing students as willfully being defiant of the teacher, the teacher understands that they’re exhibiting behaviors because something is going on in their lives that is causing them to behave in a certain way.
- 16. Counseling Steps ◦Compliment ◦Normalize ◦Clarify problemsand related details. ◦Develop clear and meaningful goals.
- 17. The Situation: TeenagePregnancy ◦ Student’s unexpressed reasons ◦Other people’s suspected reasons ◦Curses her will possibly hear ◦Words of comfort for her
- 18. Discouraging Facts aboutcounseling ◦ It is time-consuming ◦ It is emotionally tiring ◦ It is physically exhausting ◦ It is frequently unsuccessful because we cannot impose on them what can be perceived as the best and swift solution ◦ It looks unrewarding.
- 19. Counseling is not… ◦Judgmental ◦GivingAdvice ◦Expecting in a way you behaved ◦Attempting to sort out the problems ◦Getting emotionally involved with the students ◦Looking at student’s problems from your own perspective, based on your own value system.
- 20. Traits to Develop ◦ListeningSkills – Active listening ◦Objectivity – Unconditional Positive Regard
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- 22. Need for aProfessional ◦Know when professional counseling is needed ◦Keep administrators informed – Cover yourself! ◦Documentation is key! ◦Keep parents in the loop. ◦Reach out to community to find Muslim Counselors
- 23. Dangers to Avoid ◦Transference ◦Counter-transference ◦Sympathy ◦Breachof Confidentiality ◦Breach of Privacy
- 24. The Eight Commandments 1.Benonjudgmental 2.Be Empathic 3.Don’t give personal advice 4.Don’t begin with questions 5.Don’t take responsibility for the other person’s problem
- 25. The Eight Commandments 6.Don’t interpret (when a paraphrase will do) 7. Stick to the here and now 8. Deal with the feelings first
- 26. TYPICAL SITUATIONS THATMAKE SOME COUNSELORS UNEASY You feel like you are going around in circles and not getting anywhere. -Solution: pick one area to concentrate on and not let the client get away from it. -if it gets to be too much of a problem, express your feelings-“we’re not getting anywhere because you….’
- 27. TYPICAL SITUATIONS THATMAKE SOME COUNSELORS UNEASY The student starts crying. -reassure the client that its okay to cry The student becomes hysterical -talk calmly -ask whether he prefers to be alone for awhile or wishes to continue the session later -be prepared for a rather lengthy session
- 28. TYPICAL SITUATIONS THATMAKE SOME COUNSELORS UNEASY You are attracted to the client, or the client is attracted to you, or both -clarify the nature of your relationship A person wants to have someone to talk to, rather than to work on problems. -if you want to accept this, fine -if you don’t, be firm about being willing to talk about problems, but not being wiling just to talk
- 29. Everyone deserves achance All students must be viewed as potential high achievers as opposed to only high-ability students
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- 32. CREED OF THETEACHER AS COUNSELOR People seek us out. They seek us out for very private and painful reasons. We must be able to tell them what we can offer. If only for the ethics of the situation, people must have the right to know beforehand our personal values and our objectives.
- 33. 1. I willnot agree to help you go off the edge. I will not agree to help you become a robotized normal and adjusted person. I will not help you stay and wallow in the cesspool of your own making. All these go against my values. I will help you become autonomous, more resistant to enculturation, more loving of yourself, more excited, sensitive and full, more free to continue becoming the authority of your own living. CREED OF THE TEACHER AS COUNSELOR
- 34. CREED OF THETEACHER AS COUNSELOR 2. I cannot give you your dreams or fix you up, simply because I cannot . 3. I cannot make you grow, or grow for you. You must grow for yourself. 4. I cannot take away your pain or loneliness.
- 35. CREED OF THETEACHER AS COUNSELOR 5. I will not sense your world for you, evaluate your world for you, or tell you what is best for you in your world, for you have your own world and I have mine. 6.I cannot convince you of the crucial choice of choosing the scary uncertainty of growing over the safe misery of not growing.
- 36. CREED OF THETEACHER AS COUNSELOR 6.I cannot convince you of the crucial choice of choosing the scary uncertainty of growing over the safe misery of not growing. 7. I want to be with you and know you as a rich and growing friend, yet I cannot get close to you when you choose not to grow.
- 37. CREED OF THETEACHER AS COUNSELOR 8.When I begin to care for you out of pity, when I begin to lose trust in you, then I am toxic, bad, inhibiting for you and you for me.
- 38. CREED OF THETEACHER AS COUNSELOR 9.You bet, my helping is conditional; I will be with you, I will hang on there with you as long as I continue to get even the slightest hints that you are still trying to grow. 10.If you accept all of these, then perhaps we can help each other.
- 39. References: ◦ PDF Presentationof Sufia Azmat, “Every Teacher A Counselor” ◦ Smt. Ramaharan “Teacher as a Counselor” ◦ Catechism for Filipino Catholics page 272 ◦ Catechism of the Catholic Church page 505