Guidance and Counselling

The Guidance Counsellors in Colaiste na hInse have a caring and supportive role in the school.

Guidance has a holistic role in supporting daltaí in their personal and social, educational and career development. Whole school guidance plays a significant role in facilitating decision making and life choices, and in promoting supporting students’ wellbeing.

Meet your Guidance Department

Iníon Tiernan & Máistír Russell

Coláiste na hInse offers a comprehensive Guidance & Counselling service to all of our daltaí. It encompasses the three separate, but interlinked areas of personal and social development, educational guidance and career guidance

Personal Counselling may include

Individual/ Group/Peer Counselling
Personal & Social Skills
Resilience
Self Awareness
Care & Support
Target Setting
Decision Making Skills
Planning

Guidance Counsellors meet with daltaí in a confidential environment. We offer care and support to pupils learning to cope with the many aspects of growing up and school life and with their individual personal circumstances. Our Guidance Counsellors offer a comprehensive network of school-based, local and national supports and can assist daltaí and their families to link in with the appropriate agencies and/or external supports.

Educational Counselling may include

Subject choice
Subject levels
Course research
Motivation & Learning
Psychometric testing
Study Skills
Exam Tehniques

Coláiste na hInse is commited to whole school guidance and well being.

Career Counselling may include

Job Search and preparation
CManaging reer development and decision making
Junior Guidance related learning
Senior guidance focus
Career Clinic
College Awareness
Apprenticeship awareness
Aptitude, Intelligence and Interest testing

Activities of the Guidance Counsellor

Designing, delivering and evaluating guidance learning and developmental programmes relating to personal and social, educational and career development for individual, group and classroom settings
Developing effective teaching, learning and assessment strategies.
Providing individual and group counselling
Providing labour market, learning and career-related information through Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and blended learning
Planning and organising workplace learning and establishing links with the wider business community, agencies and voluntary sector
Using psychometric tests(i.e. ability and aptitude tests and career interest inventories) to facilitate career decision-making and personal development, and to support learning and educational choices
Providing support to, and working in collaboration with, school management and staff in the planning, leading, delivery, review and evaluation of the guidance service/programme and the whole school guidance plan
Working with parents (as appropriate)
Referring students and service users to external agencies and professionals (as appropriate)
Establishing close ties with feeder schools, where appropriate, and with centres of further education and traini

Guidance Related Learning for Junior Cycle

Guidance and Counselling

The Guidance Counsellors in Colaiste na hInse have a caring and supportive role in the school.

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