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Our Understanding of Guidance |
Ekin Schools Guidance Department adopts the principle that “Each person is valuable and has the right to improve himself/herself pre-eminently according to his/her potential. Therefore, we help our students to solve the problems they have encountered taking their age-development characteristics into consideration. With this understanding, we perform works that aim at raising kids who are confident, creative and responsible.
In this sense, guidance counselling activities are constructive and continuous. Therefore, we focus on the progress and relationships instead of focusing on problems.
Our reason of being is to make the students know themselves better and to make our parents and teachers know their students better. That’s why we carry out our works in three groups.
Our Goal is to make our students;
Know themselves physically, emotionally and socially,
Become aware of their own interests and capabilities,
Be equipped with problem solving skills,
Be at peace both with themselves and the others,
Express their thoughts and feelings at the right time and place with an effective language,
Develop their problem solving skills and make right decisions,
Become aware of their limits and take responsibilities,
Be psychologically healthy and socially beneficial,
Be happy, healthy and peaceful individuals.
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Guidance Department Studies |
In order to achieve our goal mentioned above, our guidance department provides individual or group works for the students, teachers and the parents. While doing this, it makes use of various tests, forms, inventories and OYS which is a computer based programme. It also keeps an account of all its works and conversations.
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The Works Carried Out With The Students
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Our works with the students start with increasing a self awareness and are supported by
personal and social development,
educational development,
career development programmes.
The reason of increasing self awareness is to help student know himself/herself better. This information is obtained from the student, student’s family and teachers and also from the techniques that are used to know the student.
This process starts when the parents decide to register their kid for our school. School maturity work is carried out with each kid who has applied to our school. The information we obtained is shared with the parents and they are asked for their contribution. Then, we ask the parents to write a letter that describes their kid from their own point of views. This letter is later evaluated by our guidance councillors. We support our works by meeting the teachers and the parents regularly.
We make small group works with our new comers in order to introduce them our school building, school rules, school facilities, students’ rights and responsibilities. So that, we increase the sense of belonging.
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Personal and Social Development |
We work on the following subjects and make evaluations about them.
Getting to know feelings and manage them
Listening and communication skills
Self-confidence
Goal setting
Problem solving ability
Time management
Anger management
Peer relationship management
We work on the following subjects and make evaluations about them.
Learning styles
Academic success
The ability of creating positive studying behaviour
The ability of learning and developing attention
The ability of taking responsibilities and fulfilling his/hers responsibilities
The ability of developing a positive attitude towards exams
Homework
Reading habit
School maturity
In our career development programme, we work on various subjects to get our students know
their interest and capabilities,
different occupations,
different high schools
and to raise professional awareness.
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Guidance Department Activities
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Orientation
How to work effectively
Goal Setting
Time Management
Test Techniques
Exam Anxiety
How to deal with stress
Mental Rehearsal
Feeling and Behaviour Management
Trips to Motivate Students
Vocational Guidance
Assessment and Evaluation Studies
TEOGS Analysis
Peer Meditation
Coaching Programme
Parents’ School
Counselling Services
Interdisciplinary Cooperation
Bulletin Board Preparations
Seminars
Publications
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Activities Carried Out With The Teachers |
Our Secondary School Guidance Counsellor has regular meetings with the form teachers and the training coaches every two weeks. She performs the following works with them:
Orientation studies
Counselling studies
Training coach studies
Consultancy about classroom teaching
In-service-training studies
Seminars
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Activities Carried Out With The Parents |
In the process of preparing our students to life, the parents play an important role. The works that our Guidance Department carry out with the parents are as in the following:
Activities that aim at getting to know our parents
Activities that aim at introducing our school system
Parents’ School – Informative and educative seminars that are performed either by our guidance counsellors or invited specialists
Publications – EMPATÝ
Bulletins
Individual meetings
In addition to introducing secondary school test system, providing consultancy service in terms of application, preparation process and preference
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