Education Counselors to ease up the life of students

Posted by Bappaditta Jana
6
Apr 24, 2017
159 Views
Image
Owing to intense competition and peer pressure students often face a dilemma to make the right career choice for them. This generally leads to a lot of hesitation, doubts in them and force students to succumb to stress, anxiety and depression. This is where education counselling appears. Here students are advised not just on ways to build the right career path for them but are provided support to help them grow as individuals and professionals. Student counselling in Kolkata is now a sector, which is growing quite popular as the number of candidates is increasing who face difficulty in choosing a particular career path for them to flourish.

The most important duty of an educational counsellor is to understand the hopes, aspirations and dreams of a student. They should know the strengths and weaknesses of the student and handle them very carefully. They also interact with parents, guardians, and other administrators regarding a student's behavioural, academic, and other problems.

 In the clutter of hundreds of desired career options, these counsellors assist students in making sensible career decisions. They evaluate a student's abilities, interests and skills through interviews, personality and aptitude assessments, etc. They match if the mutually chosen career path is best suited to the candidate's profile, interests and limitations.

With the varied options and choices for a student, it becomes quite confusing to understand which career suits which candidate, according to their potential and how to proceed with it. For students with the growing number of educational counselling services in Kolkata, it becomes very difficult to choose the better one from the other.
There are a lot of methods and ways followed by the educational counselling services in Kolkata to help students find a definite path for success. They guide students to develop organisational, time management, stress management, effective study habits and other such vital skills.

Education counsellors focus their energies on identifying and dealing with personal, behavioural, social and scholastic problems that affect student performance, achievement and even relationships. Varied issues like bullying peer pressure, pressure to perform, low self-esteem and so on needs to be cared for and the educational counsellors do provide services to guide the students. This helps them to come out more confident, mentally strong and mature to handle situations affecting their educational and vocational life.

In today's world, counsellors also have to be involved in helping students needing counselling in Kolkata, deal with learning disabilities, substance abuse, death, suicide, divorce and other crises. Educational counsellors also collaborate with parents, teachers and other school staff in a bid to monitor and evaluate educational progress, update them about individual growth so that the student has the best chance of success.

The education counselling services in Kolkata also carry out workshops and seminars in schools and colleges to provide a wide range of educational and occupational information. They are also responsible for conducting peer-counselling program in a school setting where students are trained to help the troubled students and sometimes trained to help themselves.
Comments
avatar
Please sign in to add comment.