The Roles of School Counselor

The Roles of School advocator-at-law-at-law Based on the guidances log book listed 26 usages or responsibilities that must(prenominal) be done by a counselor. However, counselors ar not inescapably bound by duties recorded because the screen background of duties of a counselor is truly more than that. According to Mr. Zaifulnizam, role that ignore be played as a counselor must be based on intimacy of appropriate guidance and focus so that they can deal with problems at condition and managed to turn the actual functions of guidance and direction.The main role of the counselor is responsible in order to expand the potential of each learner, this is because guidance and counseling services argon structured activities will help learners to examine, survey and choose a realistic personal goal and to ensure that they are desire to achieve their goals. Counselors role is not solo to help students happen upon and achieve their goals but encourage and guide students to i dentify the right direction of life.Thats mean counselors role is not only to students academician performance only but a students life as a whole in line with the ism of education. Mr. Zaifulnizam excessively stated, counselor to a fault serves as a mediator amongst the outsider and the school. Outsiders can be parents, society and the authorities such as police. Therefore, the counselor is also responsible for preserve the reputation and good account of the school. Even, counselors also make to act as a mediator amidst teachers and students. In the some condition the teacher need assistance counselors to guess the students.Mr. Zaifulnizam also said counselors must be well-informed as they also act as an informer to all school community because, the counselor will be referred if something important happen in the school. Counselors role is not only limited towards the counseling process all but also serves to plan and implement school activities throughout the year, especia lly involving student affairs. In other words the counselors also serve as planners, implementers, motivator, and advisor for the school community. Types of work ProvidedThe guidance and counseling unit (UBK) are responsible for providing and coordinating all activities and services supported by the curriculum and co-curriculum activities. According to the Ministry of Education (KPM) in the books of Implementation Guidelines, guidance and counsel Services in Schools have outlined several principles. Among other things, guidance and counseling is an educational process, a process that is planned and ongoing. In SMKPM, apart from the yearly computer design of activities the UBK also offer up some guidance and counseling program that is planned as follows a) Counseling Services Counselors provide the guidance and counseling services for individuals or groups. Individual counseling is the process of counseling to students who have problems whether they come alone or who are refer red by other teachers. students commonly come in person to get the consultation is that students who excel in academics, while the slipperiness was referred by the other teachers involving students who have problems in school such as not completing their homework and have no interest in learning.But there are also cases where the counselors themselves will check over student files such as academic file or refine file and, where there are problems such as deterioration of academic achievement and student take misconduct, UBK themselves will call the student is to be consulted. Usually the individual counseling program is ongoing throughout the year. plot of ground Group Counseling is a process of group counseling in which all students normally have the same problem or government issue for discussion.This is to enable students to understand the situation and acquire the ability to act and to have the best the discomfort experienced. In addition to counseling services also prov ide consultancy services to teachers who are always facing issues related to student behavior, student relations and matters of personality education of the students at the school. b) Personality development * The counselor will be requested to solve disciplinary problems. The school school will refer students who commit disciplinary offenses repeatedly to a counselor to resolve.Through individual counseling or group of students will be rede to change their attitudes according to the school rules. For example when there is a student who likes to bully their peers, the UBK will call for a consultation session, they will be granted proper advice to the formation of their personal development towards a reform and consequently remove the bad behavior. c) Motivation and learning skills * Students are given the guidance to keep their academic achievement. Counselor role to motivate students slight confident of their abilities and given up with their academic performance.Counselors a lso play a role in guiding the students to acquire the skills to learn, how to control stress, time caution skills and effective learning techniques and answering exam questions. Therefore the Guidance and Counseling whole has planned special programs such as course of study Maju Diri, Program Teknik Menjawab Soalan, and Program Motivasi / Bijak Belajar PMR dan SPM. d) Career Development Guidance * The Guidance and Counseling Unit provide a variety of programs for students to expose them to the working world.The main break up of the program is to enable students to learn the things themselves so that the appropriate choice of careers can be made. Programs implemented are the Program Hari Kerjaya and the Pameran Kerjaya. Such programs usually emphatic on form five students. e) Orientation program to the new teachers * The Guidance and Counseling Unit also responsible in managing the orientation program for the new teachers. These programs are specific to the new teachers to famil iarize themselves with the school. f) Career development for teachers Responsible for handling the career sweetening programs for teachers. An example of career enhancement programs for teachers is LADAP (Latihan Dalam Perkhidmatan). Problem handled Problems handled by the guidance and counseling unit (UBK) in the scope of duties and responsibilities that must performed by a counselor. It involves any student in need of guidance and advice and has been classified these cases into eight categories such as Academic, personal, career, delay, psychosocial, drug or cigarettes, family and HIV or Aids.The highest cases handled by UBK is discipline cases, most common discipline offense committed by the student is skipping school and modes of dress that does not comply with the school rules. These kinds of cases are usually referred by the school discipline unit. Discipline is the highest cases because it involves a lot repetitive cases such as truancy and absenteeism. The second highest cases involves academic and career. Usually these cases are referred by teachers or students themselves voluntarily come to seek for advice, they usually have a good take of academic achievement.Family problem and students personal matter among the favorite cases handled by the UBK. virtually of the students in SMKPM are from middle-income families. This caused many of neglected children less attention from their parents because they are busy to earn for living. Some even came from a broken family and parents with problems that run their children indirectly. This causes the children do not interested in studies and always skipping school. They are usually referred by the class teacher for advice and counseling. Sometimes there are also students themselves who come to seek for advice on personal problems.There are also the cases handled by UBK involving students who have problems in psychosocial. The psychosocial problems related with mental wellness of students such as spiritual and self-esteem. Such cases are usually referred by teachers or by parents themselves. Students who are involved in drugs and cigarettes were also handled by the UBK. Although drugs and cigarettes is not democratic cases, the school authorities through UBK still take necessary precautions by conducting lot of programs that expose disadvantages of drugs and cigarettes to students. So far there has been no case of HIV and Aids.STATISTICS ON CASE (January September 2012) Type of Cases Num. of Cases Academic 56 Personal 20 Career 47 Discipline 113 Psychosocial 13 do drugs/Cigarettes 6 Family 23 HIV/Aids 0 Total 278 The pie chart higher up shows the percentage of cases handled by UBK. Discipline cases showed the highest record. Apart from discipline, other popular cases handled by UBK are academic and career of the students. While there were no cases of HIV and Aids. All the cases are for the whole month of January to September of 2012. Statistics for the cases above refers to the mo rning school session only.