Topic 3 teacher s roles as a counsellor
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DEFINITIONWho is a COUNSELLOR?• A person trained to give guidance on personal
or psychological problems (Oxford Dictionary)• ‘…delivered by trained practitioners who work
with people over a short or long term to help them bring about effective change or enhance their wellbeing.’ (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy)
ROLES OF A COUNSELLOR
Establish good rapport with external bodies,
NGO (police, JKM, LPPKM, Pejabat Agama
Islam)
Carry out individual and group counselling
Plan motivational program for students
and staff
Help the student to understand inner self
(potential) and his social relationship
Help the students to maximize his potential
and capability
Provides the students information to parents and administrators on
the students’ well-being
DEFINITIONWho is a TEACHER?• A teacher is a person who delivers knowledge,
assesses and facilitates students’ participation in teaching and learning process
• Teacher is someone who gives anything which is good, positive, creative and developing humankind without expecting any rewards (Al-Ghazali)
1. Collecting Students’ Information• What are students’ information?– Background knowledge– Students’ potential– Academic Achievement/performance– Behaviour
• Purpose: – Record students development over the years– Collaborate with the school’s counsellor and administrator– Reflect the students’ performance
Methods of collecting students’ information:
1. Test technique- Used to test or diagnose students’ aptitude, interest,
achievement, personality and etc… - Objective - Formal
2. Non-test technique- To gather information about students in a more
comprehensive and holistically- Subjective - Informal
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Achievement Test
Aptitude Test
Personality Test
Career Test
Attitude TestN
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Observation
Interview
Document Analysis
2. Identifying Students’ Problems
• Students who have communication problems with their parents, teachers and peers
Interpersonal Conflict
• Students who have problems in making decision need clear information to the alternative solutions of their problem
Intrapersonal Conflict
• Students who want to know more about themselves regarding ability, strength and interest.
Lack of Self awareness
• Students need to learn different skills for instance effective ways of learning, assertive behaviour, effective listening skill
Lack of skills
• Students need more information about career opportunities and how to succeed.
Lack of information on career
According to Thomas Achenbach (1992), there are 4 categories of students’ behavioural problem:1) Internalizing behaviour2) Externalizing behavior3) Social, Attention and Mental problem4) Other problems
INTERNALIZING BEHAVIOUR• This happens when students suppress their
emotion within themselves• 3 types of internalizing behaviours:– Somatic problems : tiredness, nausea, headache,
dizziness– Withdrawn : shy, daydreaming, sulking, sad, – Paranoid : crying, scared, lonely, worry, guilt
EXTERNALIZING PROBLEM• Emotional problem that are shown through
behaviour • Delinquent behaviour – lying, cursing, playing
truant, stealing, vandalism• Aggressive behaviour – yelling, show-off,
mocking, black mailing, hot-tempered, attention seeker
SOCIAL, ATTENTION AND MENTAL PROBLEM
• Social problem– does not act their age – Lack of social skill– Clumsy– Mingle with younger people
• Mental problem– Hallucinating (hearing and seeing things)– Weird, out of norm, unacceptable behaviour
OTHER PROBLEMS• Sleep talking• Nightmares• Eating disorder• Suicidal• Nail biting• Speech problem/stutter
Teacher as a CounsellorHelping students
in adjusting to their surrounding
Helping students in their studies
Giving awareness of the importance
of education
Helping students in making rational
decision
Solving students’ learning problem
Helping the students with their
learning routine
Referring the students to the
school counsellor
Cooperating with school counsellor
Filling in the 001 card (primary
school)
Cooperating with parents