FIRST DAY, FIRST SESSION

Today it was the presentation of the subject. In it, we have done some icebreakers to present ourselves. After it, we tried to give a definition or an idea of what School Guidance and Counselling is. We first tried to do it individually, and all the answers were in the same way: “Guiding children in their academical learning and their personal problems”. After, we tried to do it in couples, and the result was nearly the same: “Putting children in the correct way, help them to take the right decision in both academical and personal life”. And finally, we tried to do it in groups, and the answer was amplified: “Advising children in their academical life taking into account their individual context and, at the same time, helping them to go through their personal problems”. 

After doing all these things, we noticed that we are using always the same words, which are the key words of it: Counselling, context, academical and personal problems, identify and solve problems, tools, guidance, diversity, tutorship... 

For finishing, I would like to share my personal definition, which is the following one: “Trying to show the correct way to the student, in both academical and personal ways, by helping him with the troubles he could find in them, but always being aware of his personal context and his personal conditions and characteristics”. A personal explanation that I would like to say is that Counselors are not superheroes. They are common people which are formed to give the best advice in each situation and they will try to do their best; but, sometimes, troubles get unsolved even with this help. In these cases, when troubles get unsolved, Counselors have to spend more time with this child in order to help them in other ways.