This study is designed to research on the school counseling of high school students and teachers in northern Gyeonggi Province and propose to activate school counseling in two respects - students and teachers.
1. Students
1) Although there is a scho...
This study is designed to research on the school counseling of high school students and teachers in northern Gyeonggi Province and propose to activate school counseling in two respects - students and teachers.
1. Students
1) Although there is a school counseling room, the students don't use school counseling rooms so much. It means that counseling is not activated at each school.
2) Students mainly counsel with home-room teachers or subject teachers but they don't have much time to counsel because teachers are busy handling much paper work and many classes.
3) Most of the high school students worry about their grades and their careers in the future. So schools(teachers) should help them solve such problems effectively.
4) Students prefer especially young and female teachers in twenties as a counselor. But they don't care about teachers' age only if the teachers are very skillful in counseling and they have cheerful, humorous, and kind personalities. They want person-to-person counseling and the protection of their privacies.
2. Teachers
1) Teachers think that the most important purpose in school counseling is preventing wrong behaviors from happening in advance and solving students' troubles. Teachers try to talk to their students as often as possible, but they don't do it rightly because of a lot of school work and classes. As a school system was computerized, it was more difficult for teachers to get time to counsel with students. So we have to try to make proper environments for counseling by reducing teacher's classes and overwork.
2) Teachers mostly counsel with students in the teachers' room but it would be more effective to do it in the counselling room.
3) Teachers don't usually counsel until students' problems take place, but they should recognize the purpose of school counseling which is to stop troubles from occurring. They should pay attention to reach the goal. Almost every teachers have difficulties dealing with troubles students have. They get knowledge and skills for counseling through the teaching experiences and special training. To be good counselors, teachers need to take systematic and continuous programs designed to meet the growing and changing needs of students in high schools.
4) The school authorities should give financial support to teachers and also try to make schools equipped with sufficient rooms and many materials students want.
5) In case of challenging problems school can't cope with, it is desirable for school authorities to keep in systematic and continuous contact with professional counseling institutes outside school.
For example, when Korean teachers ran the school library, it actually didn't work in a proper way. But after the school librarian was appointed at each school, the school library has been actively used by students. Similarly, It will be the same in the school counselling. If school counselors were posted at every school, school counseling would be more activated. So the school counselors should be posted at every school that students can get help whenever possible.