GUIDANCE CENTER Contribution Statement: We are a service-oriented team empowering others to grow as responsible persons General Objectives: 1.

To promote the total growth and development of the students; 2. To help the students become mature and responsible individuals and ultimately, empowered servant-leaders of the Church and society; 3. To assist the students in creating a climate that assures harmonious and effective working relationship among the different sectors of the EPC; 4. To facilitate the students assimilation of personal competencies and positive attitudes in facing the realities of life thus, enabling him to comfortably interact with other people and fulfill his Christian role in society. Specific Objectives: 1. Aid the students in identifying and accepting their abilities, personality, interests, and aptitudes in order to utilize them to their optimum. 2. Help the students in identifying their specific learning difficulties and learn to overcome them/to acquire new behavior that will facilitate learning; 3. Assist the students in developing awareness and imbibe human and spiritual values necessary in forming realistic and attainable life goals and making wise decisions; 4. Collect more relevant information to monitor the growth and development of the students so as to provide adequate assistance relevant to their needs; 5. Assist systematically in the collection and analysis of relevant data and make them available to the administrators and teachers as basis for effectively change in the curriculum according to students needs; 6. Establish lines of communication with the members of the EPC and other community agencies to elicit support that would favor the ongoing progress of the students.

Guidance Services ORIENTATION SERVICE

The Orientation Service is an organized and systematic approach by which pertinent information is made available to the students, parents, and teachers. Its primary objective is to allow each new student / parent acquire / assimilate the necessary knowledge about the new school its purposes and objectives, and accordingly, be able to make adjustments easily and to feel a sense of security and belongingness. Examples: Parents Orientation, Grade 6 Parents and Sons Orientation, Orientation for Teachers and Realities of High School Life ENRICHMENT SERVICE The Remedial and Enrichment Service is an organized guidance service which aims at helping the students enhance and develop necessary skills to cope with the social-civic and academic demand of the school. Activities relevant to this service are incorporated to the formulation or creation of homeroom guidance or RHGP. Examples: RHGP and Social Interaction INDIVIDUAL INVENTORY SERVICE The Individual Inventory Service is 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 and interviews as he progresses through school. This is to assist each student to know himself better as well as for self-realization. SERVICES TO ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS, AND PARENTS These are organized and efficient services that provide administrators, teachers, and parents with relevant student information and equip them with knowledge and skills necessary for understanding the students Example: Seminar/Workshop on Effective Behavior Management in the Classroom, Team Building, etc. COUNSELING SERVICE The Counseling Service is the heart of the Guidance and Counseling Program. It is a professional service through which each student is helped to understand himself in relation to his unique and developing world through an opportunity of free expression within a setting of privacy and acceptance. The major focus of the counseling service is to create a positive school environment for the students. The school counselors help the students to acquire skills in the personal, social, educational, and career areas through individual and group counseling. VOCATION AND CAREER GUIDANCE SERVICE

The vocation and career guidance is a service given to Bosconians particularly addressing the need of the seniors to evaluate their capabilities and interest vis a vis their course or career choice. Activities : Career Orientation, College Orientation and College Expo FOLLOW-UP SERVICE The follow-up service of the Guidance and Counseling Program includes pursuing the progress towards attaining the solution(s) to problem(s) referred for counseling and securing information from those students who left the school and those who graduated regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the curricular and co-curricular offerings and the guidance program, in particular. These pieces of information are made available to the administration for action. RESEARCH AND EVALUATION SERVICE The research and Evaluation Service is a vital part of the guidance program. It is through this service that data gathered through other services such as testing and inventory are utilized, investigated and studied for the purpose of improving the guidance program and/or come up with recommendations or proposed remediations that may improve students/schools performance. TESTING SERVICE The Testing Service Program actualizes the objective of the testing services of the Guidance and Counseling Program. 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. PLACEMENT SERVICE The Placement Service is an activity based service in which the school attempts to ensure the students of their university/college entry. In this service, the students are also provided with a wide-range of opportunities that facilitate realistic career planning and decision-making process.
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Guidance and Counseling Service The Guidance and Counseling Center offers the following services: Orientation Service Aims to facilitate adjustment to College Life. Individual Inventory Service

Designed to give information about the student to aid him/her toward self-knowledge and selfactualization. Testing Aims to assist student to achieve self-knowledge and self-actualization. Information Service Provides the student with sufficient educational, social, and occupational data to guide his choices and decisions. Individual and Group Counseling The most important service of the Guidance program designed to help student towards maximum self-realization and development to become fully integrated, mature, and responsible individual. Follow-up Services Provides career counseling, systematic contacts with alumni, and provision for continuing education and involvement in the community service. Research and Evaluation Provides a systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of the student personnel service offered by the College, to be utilized for the improvement of the service. http://mbc.edu.ph/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=60
ORIENTATION The Orientation Program seeks to enjoin the whole Seton community in ushering in its new members through various activities that will help the individual effectively adjust to his new environment. The Student Orientation familiarizes the students with the schools policies, services, personnel and student community to develop him into a more responsible, self-aware and confident individual. Through the Parents Orientation, the school and the parents work together to create a helping relationship that will benefit the childs development and progress. After the Orientation Day, new students would have been better prepared to join their respective classes on the first day of school. Other activities like Homeroom and class periods, as well as counseling sessions, serve as venues that can help monitor the progress of the new students during the school year.

As new personnel of the community, it is but natural for them to acquaint themselves not only with the nature of their jobs but also the policies and rules, facilities and services of the school. The Orientation of Employees on Guidance Services presents to the ESS personnel the different guidance programs and their role in relation to these services. With all of these activities put into place, new students, parents and personnel can better harmonize themselves with the Seton community. STUDENT INVENTORY Every student brings with him a wealth of information about his uniqueness as an individual and his similarities with others. This guidance program effectively and efficiently records and stores these information: personal information, test profile, academic achievement, counseling records, medical records. This information, which when properly interpreted can provide vital information for the guidance counselor, teachers and parents and students themselves to guide and direct the students growth as an individual. Teachers and parents are welcome to view the students profile upon permission of the Unit Head or Guidance Counselor. Use of students profile for research purposes is also honored upon approval of written request. HOMEROOM The Homeroom is the family unit within the life of the school. Composed of a class adviser and a group of students, they are bound together by common ties of friendship and understanding. Activities and structured learning experiences in Homeroom are geared to orient them with the ESS culture, to enhance the students healthy relationship with themselves and their classmates, to reinforce values learned, to develop the students personality and to guide them in their career development.

http://www.ess.edu.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=12 individual invent0ry services -home and family background Medical ,dental and physical status Test results and interpretation With all this are: Scholastic performance and interview reports Records and parental interviews Home teacher s evaluation Co-curricular and extra curricular activities

Guidance is a complex process encompassing a wide range of interventions which requires specialized training. More specifically, the term counseling describes the relationship between a person trained, the counsel, and another person seeking assistance, the customer. The relationship between the counsel and the counseled one is one of alliance, participation and mutual cooperation.