Level of Resiliency and Delivery of Guidance and Counselling Services of Guidance Teacher Designates at Atimonan District, DepEd Quezon Province: Basis for an Enhancement Program

Abstract

This study generally focused on the level of resiliency and the delivery of guidance and analyzing services of the guidance teacher designates at Atimonan District, DepEd Quezon Province. Specifically, the study looked into the perceptions of the designated guidance teachers, in terms of their resiliency levels and their delivery of guidance and services. It also sought to identify the profile of the guidance teachers in terms of age, sex, highest educational attainment, area of specialization, hours of training in guidance and analysing; and years of service. Moreover, this study ascertained the significant relationships between the guidance teacher designates’ demographic profile and their level of resiliency and delivery of guidance and analyzing service. Results revealed that in terms of the profile of the guidance teacher designates most of them are in the early adult years with ages ranging from 31-40 years old and larger portion of them are females. Majority of them have units earned in master’s degree. They specialized in Basic Elementary Education, major in General Education. Their trainings are mostly in teaching, thus the majority accounts to zero hour or no training in guidance and analyzation. In addition, most of them are rendering their service for 1-7 years they are fairly new to job. The level of resiliency of the respondents revealed that they perceived themselves having a very high resiliency level in terms of Personal Skills, Social Skills, Physical Caregiving, Psychological Caregiving, Educational and Cultural while perceived only high resiliency level noted in Peer Support and Spiritual. They got a very high overall resiliency level in Individual, Relationship with the Primary Caregiver and Contextual. On the other hand, delivery of guidance and analyzing services such as Individual Inventory Service; Orientation/Information Service; CounsellingService; Admission/Placement Service; Follow-Up Service; Testing Service; Career Guidance Service; Research and Evaluation Service; Prevention and Wellness Service; Linkages/Referral Service were all perceived as very good though none of the services got excellent description. They got a very good overall delivery of guidance and analyzing services. More significantly, among the demographic profile the item highest educational attainment came out as with significant relationship to the respondents’ resiliency level and in the delivery of Individual Inventory Service as one of the Guidance and Counselling Services. This study involved a quantitative form utilizing the descriptive method of research which made use of standardized questionnaires. There were 35 purposively selected guidance teacher-respondents from the Atimonan District, DepEd Quezon Province, which includes both elementary and secondary schools. Data were tallied and subjected to appropriate statistical methods that included Frequency, Percentage Distribution, Weighted Mean relationship and Correlation analysis. The null hypotheses of the study were both rejected. Thus, there is a significant relationship exist between the demographic profile of the guidance teacher designates, their level of resiliency and delivery of guidance and analyzing services. Based on the findings, the researcher encourages the Department of Education, the Division of Quezon, specifically in the Atimonan District to use the result of this research as baseline information for a training program for the guidance teacher designates, and for furtherance of the preparation by taking up Master in Guidance and Analyzation course.