EDS424 GUIDANCE
| Course Code: | 4540424 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Educational Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. KADRİYE FUNDA BARUTÇU YILDIRIM |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The students completing this course are expected to:
- Describe the historical, social, and cultural foundations for counseling and guidance in schools
- Define concepts, terms regarding to counseling and guidance in schools
- Know roles and responsibilities of school counselors
- Understand roles and responsibilities of teachers in school counseling
- Know major counseling approaches
- Use basic helping skills
- Explain individual and group helping process
- Know types of assessment methods in counseling
- Know major career counseling approaches and techniques
- Develop awareness regading ethical issues impact the work of school counselors and teachers
Course Content
Purposes of student personality services and their place in education, introduction to guidance services in schools, principles of guidance, diagnosing and guiding students, collection and use of data on student counseling, placement, follow-up advising, research and evaluation, relations with parents and beyond the school community, vocational guidance, purposes of special education, identifying students with special learning needs.
Course Learning Outcomes
The students completing this course are expected to:
- Interpret how historical, cultural and social events impacted the field of counseling
- Explain basic concepts, terms, principles regarding to counseling and guidance in schools
- Evaluate how the principles and functions of counseling and guidance is conductive to safe school environment
- Explain importance of counseling and guidance in schools to teachers and students
- Demonstrate characteristics of the effective helper empathy, genuineness, unconditional positive regard, open-mindedness, respect and competence
- Point out how to cooperate with various stakeholders in schools in the process of counseling and guidance
- Illustrate professionalism and an awareness of the roles and responsibilities of teachers in school counseling program
- Explain various assessment methods used in school in counseling
- Critique on psychometric qualities of assessment techniques
- Relate how ethical issues impact the work of school counselors, teachers and demonstrate a position on these issues
- Critique on qualities that support and hinder being a helper for students
- İllustrate self-evaluation skills and critical thinking skills