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Aimee S. Bacayan DPE 105/ SECTION 1

1. Write your learning about the History of GC in the Philippine.

History and development of guidance around the world varies greatly based on how each
country and local communities perceived its role and importance in every individual as well as in
building a nation. Lack of trained personnel and concerned administrators, lack of funds, and
misapprehension about guidance were some of the factors which resulted into the slow-moving
progress of guidance. But despite of these hindrances, guidance has come to stay as a newer field
of educational psychology. The movement of guidance has been spread in some countries,
including the Philippines. In the Philippines, guidance is said to have both an accidental and
incidental origin. Teachers and principals have assisted pupils to make choices and to make self-
adjustments. They also treat problems of misbehavior among pupils in the classroom and on the
playground, including the cutting of classes or low or inconsistent grades. In 1932, with so much
concern with cases of student discipline, emotional, academic, and vocational problems, Dr.
Sinforoso Padilla started a Psychological Clinic and was operates until 1941. In November,
1945, the first Guidance Institute was opened and the Bureau of Public School Teachers started
to send teachers as pensionados for observation and study of guidance services abroad. In its
report of 1951, Congress proposed the establishments of a functional guidance and counseling
program to assist students in choosing their course and help them solve their personality
problems. In 2004, Guidance and Couseling Act is hereby declared as a policy of the state to
promote the improvement, advancement, and protection of the guidance and counseling
profession by undertaking and instituting measures that will result in professional, ethical,
relevant, efficient, and effective guidance and counseling services for the development and
enrichment of individuals and group lives. With this, the state recognizes the important role of
guidance counselors in nation-building and promotes the sustained development of a reservoir of
guidance counselors whose competence have been determined by honest and credible licensure
examinations and whose standards of professional practice and service are world-class and
internationally recognized, globally competitive through preventive regulatory measures,
programs and activities that foster their continuing professional growth. Furthermore, guidance
counselor is very important in academic institutions who would provide necessary services to the
students with problematic situations personally and academically. But not all schools can provide
a guidance counselor because of the lack of competent and registered guidance counselor. In
some schools, the school head serves as an administrator at the same time a guidance counsellor.
While in some other school, designated a values education teacher as their guidance counselor.
Therefore, I learned that guidance in schools are very vital hence, the Philippines in particular,
declared an Act that would strengthen Guidance and Counseling that ensure effective guidance
that would empower people in nation-building. Guidance is an act or process of guiding. It is a
process by which students are given advice on how to deal with emotional conflicts and personal
problems both in school and how to incorporate the same in their daily life. Indeed, the efforts of
guidance experts who founded it are immeasurable.