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Effect Of Guidance And Counselling Among Senior Secondary School Students In Their Choice Of Career
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The Importance of Guidance and Counselling are as the following
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Guidance and counselling services enable each learner in institutions
of learning to derive optimal educational benefits so as to actualize
his/her potentialities.
- It helps the students to make meaningful decision and choice.
- It helps students to interpret his understanding of life experience.
- It helps the learner to understand himself, his world and to learn how to meet life demands.
- It is a profession to make an individual to understand who he is.
- It also help individual to accept responsibilities for his actions.
- It assist the student to develop his maximum potential.
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It helps learner to develop in self-understanding an transfer knowledge
gained through this experience to other event in his later life.
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Student who have access to counselling programmes reported being more
positive and having greater feelings of belongings and safety in their
schools.
- It promotes student development and academic success.
- Guidance counsellor also assist in reducing victimization and bullying behaviour of the students.
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It helps to address the physical, emotional, social, vocational and
academic difficulties of adolescent students.
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Counselling services support teachers in the classroom and enable
teachers to provide quality instruction designed to assist students in
achieving high standard.
Who Teaches Guidance and Counselling?
There are exceptional characteristics which the counsellor is expected
to display in the day-to-day professional practice of his job.
- The counsellor should be a person who belief in each person as an individual.
- He/she should be committed to individual human values.
- He/she should be alertness to the world.
- He/she should be open mindedness.
- He/she should be self-understanding.
- He/she should have the ability to maintain confidentiality in the counselling relationship.
- He/she should always demonstrate positive verbal reinforcement and showing feelings of concern.
- He/she should treat the person before him as a fellow human being who is worthy of respect.
The Choice of Career
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2004) defines Career as the
series of jobs that a person has in a particular area of work, usually
involving more responsibilities as time passes.
It also mean, the period of time that you spend in your life working or doing a partial thing.
Adenigbagbe (2011) defines choice of career as the decision and choice
making of an individual on the series of jobs that a person has in a
particular area of work.
It is the duty of school
guidance counsellor to assist the adolescent student pre-vocational by
guiding him to choose the right subject which can be combined easily
with the choice of future career.
Left unguided students,
are prone to choose subjects without directly relating them to their
interests ability and aptitude and without thinking of their future
careers and the subjects that are pre-requisite for them. For instance, a
good knowledge of Mathematics is required before a student can pursue
careers in Engineering, Economic, Geography etc. When the students want
to further their education, they may encounter difficulties as a result
of their wrong choice of subject which cannot be combined for higher
education.
It is the counsellor responsibilities to
expose his students to the career possibility and limitation of each
subjects and their combinations with other subjects.
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good combination subjects is likely to lead to the choice of a course of
study and eventually a career in which the learner can fulfill himself.
The combination should be meaningful and should be such that can be
passed easily and be combined for students in higher institutions in
order to secure a good occupation.
Nigeria, the choice of
career are often made at early age of JSS 3 – SS 1 and once the choice
are made, it become very difficult to reverse.
Counsellors needs to look into this because it is beneficial to the
country that the youth work in positions in which they can make a full
contribution to the society.
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