DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (DEPED)

DIVISION OF IRIGA CITY

IRIGA CITY

REVISITING THE
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE
IN EVERY TEACHER
DIVISION LEVEL IN-SERVICE TRAINING
OCTOBER 27, 2017
WHO AM I?
Gaining clarity about
Yourself help makes you better
in decisions making when
challenges and opportunities
emerge make you more capable
of helping others.
Who is a Teacher?
T - Teach
E - Encourage
A - Appreciate
C - Compliment
H - Humble
E - Energize
R - Reform
 WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW?
1. There is a dearth professional SCHOOL COUNSELORS.
2. There are only about 2k RGC’s in the Philippines.
3. RCG’s prefers to work as teacher of as an HR
practitioner.
4. Aspiring RGC’s are discouraged to pursue licensure
examination because of inappropriate SG.
5. The Philippine Guidance and Counseling Association
(PGCA) recommends a ratio of one counselor to 500
students.
6. Schools without enough or ANY school counselors have
to be able to rely on teachers and administrators to
identify troubled students.
Old/traditional concept:

Every Teacher is a
Guidance
Counselor…
New/modern concept (R.A 95258 0F 2004):

Every Teacher is a
GUIDANCE
ADVOCATE…
ARTICLE IV
PRACTICE OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING
Section 27. Prohibition Against the Practice of Guidance and
Counseling. - No person shall (a) engage in the practice of
guidance and counseling without a valid Certificate of
Registration and the valid Professional Identification Card or a
special permit; (b) make representations to the public or to third
person as a licensed Guidance Counselor during the time that the
licensed has been revoked or suspended, and, (c) allow anybody
to use his/her license as guidance counselor to enable such
unqualified individual to engage in the practice of guidance and
counseling.
Rationale
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9258 MARCH 2, 2004
SECTION 3 B). A GUIDANCE COUNSELOR IS A NATURAL
PERSON WHO HAS BEEN REGISTERED AND ISSUED A VALID
CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION AND A VALID PROFESSIONAL
IDENTIFICATION CARD BY THE PROFESSIONAL REGULATORY
BOARD OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING AND THE
PROFESSIONAL REGULATORY COMMISSION (PRC) IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THIS ACT AND BY VIRTUE OF SPECIALIZED
TRAINING PERFORMS FOR A FEE, SALARY OR OTHER FORMS OF
COMPENSATION, THE FUNCTIONS OF GUIDANCE AND
COUNSELING UNDER SECTION 3 (A) OF THIS ACT.
A Guidance Advocate:

❖CAREER GUIDANCE ADVOCATE.

✓Is responsible for giving useful career
information.
✓Help students in career decision making
by providing through education
advising.
A Guidance Advocate:
MAIN ELEMENTS OF CAREER GUIDANCE

✓Career Information
✓Career Advising
✓Career Education
MAIN ELEMENTS OF CAREER GUIDANCE

• Career information, covering

information on courses,
occupations and career paths. This
includes labor market information.
It may be provided in print form,
but increasingly is web-based in
nature.
MAIN ELEMENTS OF CAREER GUIDANCE

• Career Adivising,
conducted on a one-to-one
basis or in small groups, in
which attention is focused on
the distinctive career issues
faced by individuals.
MAIN ELEMENTS OF CAREER GUIDANCE

• Career education, as part

of the educational curriculum, in
which attention is paid to helping
groups of individuals to develop the
competencies for managing their
career development.
 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Career Guidance and Advocacy Program
(CGAP) is a program which aims to enlighten and
assist the Filipino learners in making
informed decisions regarding their careers
and develop awareness in the importance of
choosing a career that goes with their
interests and skills in relation to the available
resources and needs of the society.
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A Guidance Advocate:
❖ Is responsible for following up with students
regarding academic or social issues.

❖ Acts as a liaison between students, parents,

and teachers, helping them to work together to
help the student succeed socially and
academically.
❖ Recognizes the worth and dignity of each student.
A Guidance Advocate:

❖ Helps students build their self-

esteem and self-confidence,
develop better peer relationships,
improve organizational skills, and
improve behavior and anger
management skills.
Role of Guidance in Discipline:
• GUIDANCE COUNSELOR SHOULD NOT
be charged to administer sanction to
erring students or learners.
• Discipline REQUIRES giving due
Punishment (Negative Discipline).
– role of the Discipline Committee &
PREFECT OF DISCILPINE.
Role of Guidance in Discipline:
• GUIDANCE COUNSELOR – conduct
counseling with the erring learner.
• The student should further know the
purpose of punishment and effects of
such wrong doing (Positive Discipline).
 DepEd Order
No. 40, 2012
Child Protection Policy

The Department of Education (“DepEd”)

shall ensure that schools are a safe place
for the education of children.

The best interest of the child shall

be the paramount consideration in
all decisions and actions
involving children.
 DepEd Order
No. 55, 2013
IRR Anti-Bullying Act 2013
THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAS A…

ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY for any act of

abuse, exploitation, violence discrimination,
bullying, and other forms of abuse.
 Report on the Incidence of
Bullying in Schools
3000
10,235
2800
2013 – 2014
2014 – 2015
2600
2015-2016
2400

2200

2000
Incidence of Bullying

1800

1600

1400

1200

1000

800

600

400

200

0
CAR NCR I II III IV – A IV – B V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII
Regions
Region 2013 – 2014 2014 – 2015 2015-2016
CAR 78 465 764
NCR 561 195 2,894
I 89 1474 2,217
II 75 1044 1,854 * Submitted but no consolidated data
III 16 62 10,235
IV – A 143 976 1,714
IV – B 16 62 1,277
V 10 704 716
VI 37 2795 944
VII 8 91 990
VIII 47 291 974
IX 0 0 0*
X 30 560 1,104
XI 44 555 1,405
XII 36 510 1,735
XIII 0 555 900
Total 1,190 10,339 29,723
PROTOCOL IN HANDLING
CASES OF ABUSE AND
BULLYING IN SCHOOLS
 The Child
Protection
Committee
All public & private elementary and secondary
schools shall establish a Child Protection
CPC Members: Committee (CPC)

• School Head / Administrator

• Guidance Counselor / Guidance Advocate
• Teacher Representative
• Parent Representative
• Student Representative
• Barangay Representative
PROCEDURE IN BULLYING
INCIDENTS
Report/Complaint

School 1. Separate bully and victim

Head/Guidance (must be assisted by
Intake Counselor/ parents/guardians)
Sheet Guidance Advocate 2. Identify level of threats,
develop intervention
strategies;
3. Inform the victim &
Fact-Finding and parents of the steps;
Documentation 4. Make recommendations
to the CPC

Child Protection
Committee Intervention

Trained professionals
outside the school: Social
Workers, Psychologists or
Referral
Child Protection Specialist;
WCPD
PROCEDURE IN Complaint
CHILD ABUSE
CASES
Schools
School
Division
head/Principal
Superintendent

Disciplining
authority Within 48 hours

If subject is a If subject is a non-

teaching personnel teaching personnel

Not later Schools Division Office

Regional Office orders a than 72
hours
orders a fact finding
fact finding investigation
investigation

Re-
Formal
Filing of assignment
Investigation -
Administrative Resolution/
Case Preventive
Decision
suspension
CONFIDENTIALITY

CHILD
TEACHER
The identity or No publicity
other information shall be given
that may
reasonably to any
identify the pupil, disciplinary
student or
learner, whether action against
victim or a teacher
offender, shall
be withheld from
during the
the public to pendency of
protect his or her his or her
privacy.
case.
REFERRAL AND
ASSESSMENT
 Complaint

School
head/Principal
Referral System Intake
Criminal and Civil Child Sheet Monitoring System
Complaint Protection
(coordination of Committee
immediate response)

Consolidate reports on
incidents and cases of
For possible *Assessment *Other assistance Division all schools and submit
filing of *Pyscho-social intervention Office a Division Report
criminal action *Protective measures NGO and (Annex A) to the
other govt. Regional Office
agencies

PNP Consolidate reports on incidents

(women and
DSWD Regional and cases of the Division offices Regional
children’s
protection Office
within the region and submit a Office
desk) LSWDO (Crisis Intervention Unit)
Regional Report (Annex A) to the
Undersecretary for Legal Affairs

Central Repository of Central

Regional Reports Office
DISCOURAGING Facts About Guidance &
Counseling and other Helping Relationships…

✓It is time-consuming.
✓It is emotionally tiring.
✓ It is physically exhausting.
✓ It is frequently unsuccessful because we
cannot impose on them what can be
perceived as the best and swift solution.
✓ It looks unrewarding.
Traits to Develop

Listener – active listening

Objectivity – Unconditional
Positive Regard
Skills to Internalize

✓ Self-direction.
✓ Mirroring.
✓ Empathy.
✓ Referral.
Dangers to Avoid
• Transference.
• Counter-transference.
• Sympathy.
• Breach of Confidentiality (RA 9258
of 2004).
• Breach of Privacy.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS:
1. Be nonjudgmental.
2. Be empathic.
3. Don’t give personal advice.
4. Don’t begin with questions that begin with ‘why.’
5. Don’t take responsibility for the other person’s Problem.
6. Don’t interpret (when a paraphrase will do).
7. Stick to the here and now.
8. Deal with the feelings first.
9. Avoid personal attachment.
10. Avoid emotional attachment.
TYPICAL SITUATIONS THAT MAKE SOME
TEACHER UNEASY
* You feel like you are going around in
circles and not getting anywhere.
-Solution: pick one area to concentration and not let
the client get away from it.
-if it gets to be too much of a problem, express your
feelings.
-“we’re not getting anywhere because you….’
TYPICAL SITUATIONS THAT MAKE SOME
TEACHER UNEASY

The student starts crying.

-reassure the client that its okay to cry.
The student becomes hysterical.
-talk calmly.
-ask whether he prefers to be alone for awhile or wishes to
continue the session later.
-be prepared for a rather lengthy session.
TYPICAL SITUATIONS THAT MAKE SOME
TEACHER UNEASY
You are attracted to the client, or the
client is attracted to you, or both.
-clarify the nature of your relationship
A person wants to have someone to talk
to, rather than to work on problems.
-if you want to accept this, fine.
-if you don’t, be firm about being willing to talk about.
problems, but not being wiling just to talk.
PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHER AS
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE
People seek us out.
They seek us out for very private and
painful reasons. We must be able to tell
them what we can offer. If only for the
ethics of the situation, people must have
the right to know beforehand our
personal values and our objectives.
 PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHER AS
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE
1. I will not agree to help you go off the edge. I will not
agree to help you become a robotized normal and
adjusted person. I will not help you stay and wallow in
the cesspool of your own making. All these go against
my values. I will help you become autonomous, more
resistant to enculturation, more loving of yourself,
more excited, sensitive and full, more free to continue
becoming the authority of your own living.
PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHER AS
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE

2. I cannot give you your dreams

or fix you up, simply because I
cannot .
 PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHER AS
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE

3. I cannot make you grow, or grow

for you. You must grow for yourself.
PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHER AS
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE

4. I cannot take away your

pain or loneliness.
 PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHER AS
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE
5. I will not sense your world for you,
evaluate your world for you, or tell
you what is best for you in your
world, for you have your own world
and I have mine.
PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHER AS
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE
6.I cannot convince you of the
crucial choice of choosing the
scary uncertainty of growing
over the safe misery of not
growing.
 PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHER AS
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE
7. I want to be with you and know
you as a rich and growing friend,
yet I cannot get close to you when
you choose not to grow.
PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHER AS
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE
8.When I begin to care for you
out of pity, when I begin to lose
trust in you, then I am toxic,
bad, inhibiting for you and you
for me.
 PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHER AS
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE
9.You bet, my helping is conditional; I will
be with you, I will hang on there with you
as long as I continue to get even the
slightest hints that you are still trying to
grow.
PRINCIPLES OF THE TEACHER AS
GUIDANCE ADVOCATE

10.If you accept all of

these, then perhaps we
can help each other.
Last Few Words
✓ Just instruments;
✓ Genuine service;
✓ Towards one’s growth; and
✓ Development.
THANK YOU!