COUNSELLING AND TUTORING

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COUNSELLING AND TUTORING
In Secondary and Schools for Adults Palma de
Mallorca March, 2005
Dora Muñoz
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WHAT IS IT?
It is the process to pay individual attention to
every student with the aim to develop their
personal, social and learning abilities and to
offer counseling to make decisions on their study
and career. This work concerns every teacher
because it is a part of the teaching task
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WHY?

• To help to develop all aspects as a person
  identity, values system, personality and
  sociability.
• To adjust teaching to individual needs to
  prevent and help the student difficulties.
• To improve group relationship and socialisation.
• To ensure that all students have access to their
  education, social and personal development.
• To help students in their own personal and
  professional needs, and to make good personal,
  academic and professional decisions

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WHO?
Staff team They are responsible of starting the
tuition plan. The head of studies coordinates
the tutors tasks.
Tutor Although of every teacher has tuition
tasks, one of them is the class tutor with this
specific tasks
Guidance counselor To coordinate the
elaboration, development and evaluation of the
Tuition Plan To advise tutors in their tasks To
advise students with specific problems.
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• Tutor tasks
• Information To inform students of academic
  tasks, and attend to students and teachers
  demands.
• Coordination To coordinate teachers task with
  the same group of students.
• Academic overseeing to encourage the process of
  learning, to coordinate the evaluation process.
• Counselling and advising personal, academic and
  professional counselling and advising to ensure
  students integration and personal development.

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HOW?

• Plan of actions to achieve according to the
  Tuition Plan
• Students emotional balance
• Integration and social participation
• Students learning counselling
• Students making personal, academic and
  professional decision.

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WHEN?

• Everyday task in a every class
• Weekly task Individual or collective weekly
  tuition meeting.
• At an specific time individual appointment with
  the tutor or counsellor under decision of the
  student or teacher.

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And now....
GROUP WORK
For the first course of secondary group Think of
one activity to every aspect of the tuition plan,
specifying if it will be developed in group or
individualy, when it will be developed and who
will be the agent
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WHAT MAKES IT DIFFICULT?
From model

• There isn't an specific legislation for adult
  education
• The model based In the idea of every teacher has
  a tutor role needs the reform of teacher's
  training and it hasn't been done.
• The task of tutor hasn't official consideration

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From the school organization

• There isn't a tradition of aplication of this
  model.
• Every subject can have different students and the
  group tutor is the teacher of a subject, that
  means the tutor might not be teaching some of the
  students of his or her responsability as a tutor.
  
• Short term coursesfour months. The time is short
  for the tutor teacher to get to know student's
  specific needs to be solved.
• Sometimes there isn't an specific hour for group
  tuition.
• Tutor - teachers team coordination.

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From the teachers

• Teacher specialization on his or her subject and
  lack of training in tuition tasks
• The teacher have to add new tasks, not only
  teaching his or her subject but also pay
  attention to students academic and personal
  needs, interests, development, relationships,
  integration...
• Some teachers consider their tuition task as
  extra-curricular and not recognized one.
• The counselling teacher task is a recent addition
  to the staff in schools for adults

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From the students

• Student's lack of interest to attend tuition
  classes.
• Lack of motivation and interest towards tutorial
  advising.
• Student's lack of interest towards being
  integrated in a group