Guidance in San Jose College, Jaro, Iloilo City: A proposed program

• Main Author: Fabricante, Blesilda Ma. G.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1973
• Subjects: Educational counseling; Vocational guidance; Educational counseling > Case studies; San Jose College (Iloilo; Philippines); Counseling
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/199
• Institution: De La Salle University

v .1. Gleaning from the materials presented in the study, some general and basic facts can be deduced. The needs of the times prescribe certain changes in the educational program of the school whose main concern is the need of the individual. Although the guidance phase of the educational program has been advocated in the past, the school has not organized one that would meet the needs of all students. The incidental guidance services offered the previous years did not reach all students. There is therefore a need for an effective organization and programming of these services to give maximum service to all students if possible. It has been the experience of several schools to find students indifferent to the guidance program because they equate going to the guidance office as a kind of a disgrace, because only those who really have serious problems or those who misbehaved are given attention. Misconceptions like this lead to prejudices detrimental to the guidance program. There is therefore a need for the program to be understood by all those concerned in the school-the administration, the faculty members, the students, the parents and the non-academic personnel. With the help of the guidance coordinator, the dean of studies has the duty to interpret the program to the above. Guidance is not the work of the guidance staff alone nor is it a replacement of classroom instruction and home guidance. The teachers and the parents have an important part to play if the success of the program is desired. The administration is expected to provide the leadership necessary for the smooth running of the program. All those involved should realize that they benefit from the guidance program and the guidance program benefits from them. It is a two-way street. Background information about the previous services given to the students was gathered from three previous guidance counselors by means of a questionnaire. This information provided the starting point for the organization of the said program. The structure of the program w v. 2. In an open society, choice of life work is possible choice of life work is crucial. It determines ones life style, it defines ones position in the community, it spells satisfaction or frustration. A number of psychologists have presented different theories with varying emphases but a common theme runs through their various theorizations, that choice of life work is essentially a process, spanning a period of time. It is with this idea in mind that the investigator has undertaken this study which ventures to identify the values behind the vocational preferences of juniors and seniors in a Catholic school and in a public school. The respondents numbered 206 girls 96 juniors and 110 seniors. They were made to answer a questionnaire consisting of 11 items, which would presumably identify the values they hold in choosing a college course or a job. The results showed that the values of altruism, security and submission to parental wishes were the three most important values to the subject of moderate importance were the values of profit, interesting experience and independence and of least importance were the values of self-realization, leadership, family tradition, fame and power, and prestige. These values are held by the group as a whole. By means of the Spearman Rho formula, the correlation coefficients between groups were computed and the results obtained ranged from a very high to high positive correlation. The correlation coefficient of the ranks indicated by the public school seniors and the Catholic school juniors was .936 which is a very high positive correlation .918 for the Catholic school and public school juniors and the public school seniors and juniors. Showing high positive correlation were the choices made by the public school juniors and Catholic school seniors (.873) Catholic school seniors and juniors (.828) and Catholic school and public school seniors (.818). All these are significant at the .01 level. To find out the coefficient of concordance among the four sets of rankings, the Kend v. 3. Among the different cases referred to the counselor-trainee, the case in study was selected because of the common occurrence of the problem and the probability that behavior modification can be used to remedy the problem. Marla, the subject of this case study, was referred to the counselor because of academic underachievement, which primarily stems from a reading difficulty. Offshoots of her reading problem were other maladaptive behaviors, which are the following: 1. Her refusal to recite in class. She does so only after a lot of prodding 2. Her inattention in class, that is, doing other things like drawing while class is going on 3. Showing signs of stubbornness and domineering tendencies towards her younger classmates and 4. inability to hand in homework. The SPAM treatment was used to remedy one of the maladaptive behaviors, that is, refusal to recite in class. This particular behavior was singled out because the counselor considered it more important to remedy than the others, its being measurable and the possibility that making her able to recite in class can help her build up her self-confidence to some extent. It seemed that the SPAM treatment was successful in improving the child's class recitation, judging from the results. As a special counseling technique, tutoring was employed for two reasons: to establish a genuine, warm, one-to-one relationship with the client and to find out the extent of the child's reading deficiency. A referral to a reading therapist had to be made because the counselor felt that her professional competence did not include the solution of a reading problem. A series of diagnostic tests given to the counselee and their results showed that the client is a slow learner, that is, one who has low I.Q. and is reading below her present general level of development. Information gathered about the counselee and actual observations point to the fact that they root of the counselees problem is not emotionally based but rather an effect of deprivation of experiences necessary for c