General Objectives:

1. To promote the total growth and development of the students;

2. To help the students become mature and responsible individuals and ultimately, empowered servant-leaders of the Church and society;

3. To assist the students in creating a climate that assures harmonious and effective working relationship among the different sectors of the EPC;

4. To facilitate the students’ assimilation of personal competencies and positive attitudes in facing the realities of life thus, enabling him to comfortably interact with other people and fulfill his Christian role in society.

Specific Objectives:

1. Aid the students in identifying and accepting their abilities, personality, interests, and aptitudes in order to utilize them to their optimum.

2. Help the students in identifying their specific learning difficulties and learn to overcome them/to acquire new behavior that will facilitate learning;

3. Assist the students in developing awareness and imbibe human and spiritual values necessary in forming realistic and attainable life goals and making wise decisions;

4. Collect more relevant information to monitor the growth and development of the students so as to provide adequate assistance relevant to their needs;

5. Assist systematically in the collection and analysis of relevant data and make them available to the administrators and teachers as basis for effectively change in the curriculum according to students’ needs;

6. Establish lines of communication with the members of the EPC and other community agencies to elicit support that would favor the ongoing progress of the students.

ORIENTATION SERVICE

The Orientation Service is an organized and systematic approach by which pertinent information is made available to the students, parents, and teachers.

Its primary objective is to allow each new student / parent acquire / assimilate the necessary knowledge about the new school – its purposes and objectives, and accordingly, be able to make adjustments easily and to feel a sense of security and belongingness.

Examples:  Parents Orientation, Grade 6 Parents and Sons Orientation, Orientation for Teachers and Realities of High School Life

ENRICHMENT SERVICE

The Remedial and Enrichment Service is an organized guidance service which aims at helping the students enhance and develop necessary skills to cope with the social-civic and academic demand of the school. Activities relevant to this service are incorporated to the formulation or creation of homeroom guidance or RHGP.

Examples: RHGP and Social Interaction

INDIVIDUAL INVENTORY SERVICE

The Individual Inventory Service is a longitudinal, organized and systematic process of collecting, recording, and utilizing information about each student of his home and family background, his intellectual and social development and other pertinent information gathered from psychological tests and interviews as he progresses through school.  This is to assist each student to know himself better as well as for self-realization.

SERVICES TO ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS, AND PARENTS

These are organized and efficient services that provide administrators, teachers, and parents with relevant student information and equip them with knowledge and skills necessary for understanding the students

Example: Seminar/Workshop on “Effective Behavior Management in the Classroom”, Team Building, etc.

COUNSELING SERVICE

The Counseling Service is the “heart” of the Guidance and Counseling Program.  It is a professional service through which each student is helped to understand himself in relation to his unique and developing world through an opportunity of free expression within a setting of privacy and acceptance.  The major focus of the counseling service is to create a positive school environment for the students.  The school counselors help the students to acquire skills in the personal, social, educational, and career areas through individual and group counseling. 

VOCATION AND CAREER GUIDANCE SERVICE

The vocation and career guidance is a service given to Bosconians particularly addressing the need of the seniors to evaluate their capabilities and interest vis a vis their course or career choice.

Activities : Career Orientation, College Orientation and College Expo

FOLLOW-UP SERVICE

The follow-up service of the Guidance and Counseling Program includes pursuing the progress towards attaining the solution(s) to problem(s) referred for counseling and securing information from those students who left the school and those who graduated regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the curricular and co-curricular offerings and the guidance program, in particular.  These pieces of information are made available to the administration for action.

RESEARCH AND EVALUATION SERVICE

The research and Evaluation Service is a vital part of the guidance program. It is through this service that data gathered through other services such as testing and inventory are utilized, investigated and studied for the purpose of improving the guidance program and/or come up with recommendations or proposed remediations that may improve students’/school’s performance.

TESTING SERVICE

The Testing Service Program actualizes the objective of the testing services of the Guidance and Counseling Program.  It is a well-organized and efficient data-gathering activity organized for the primary purpose of assessing individual and group needs as well as getting an overview of the student population using psychometric devices.  The data gathered is used to further the personal and academic growth of the students.

PLACEMENT SERVICE

The Placement Service is an activity based service in which the school attempts to ensure the students of their university/college entry. In this service, the students are also provided with a wide-range of opportunities that facilitate realistic career planning and decision-making process.

The Guidance and Testing Center's Staff are the following:

Guidance Head

1 Guidance Counselor, Prep., Grade 3 and 4

1 Guidance Counselor, Grade 1 and 2

1 Guidance Counselor, Grade 5 and 6

1 Guidance Counselor, 1st year H.S

1 Guidance Counselor, 2nd year H.S

1 Guidance Counselor, 3rd year H.S

1 Guidance Counselor, 4th year H.S

1 High School Psychometrician

Guidance Staff Assistant

Guidance Clerk