This is a follow up to my previous article on Guidance & Counselling in our education landscape. If you recall, I shared my thoughts on G&C & outlined 3 things we must do to improve our G&C units across the nation.
Guidance Counselors play a vital role in two major areas of the students’ life – Academics & Personal development.This is an aspect of G&C that many of our schools somewhat offer at the Senior Secondary level, however – there is so much more we should be doing. In Nigeria, students as young as 13 have to decide what choice of subjects they will study in senior secondary school and these decisions can have a lifelong impact on them.
Parents, Teachers and Guidance Counsellors each play critical roles in the development of students. Hence, we must ensure they develop a relationship that allows for the free and constant flow of information between them. They have to be honest with each other and the reason is simple: they all have different experiences and knowledge of the students.