The Mount Carmel College Guidance Office designs and implements development programs to help students mature more holistically as they move through the different learning stages. The guidance designates provide such services as counselling, test interpretation, psychosocial support, mental health programs, and individual inventory. They also make themselves available to faculty members and parents/guardians for collaborative discussion on school and family matters.
Guidance Office Objectives
For the Elementary Level:
- Aid the students in their adjustment to a new environment through adequate information and guidance for academic success.
- Help the students in acquiring a better knowledge of their own strengths by identifying their talents and skills.
- Assist students in learning appropriate behaviors that will enhance their existing values and prepare them in their relationship with others.
For the Junior High School Level:
- Assist the students in their interaction with members of both sexes through knowledge, acceptance and appreciation of their own uniqueness.
- Give instruction and various activities to students that can help them develop the application of proper communication skills for academic success.
- Help the students set realistic goals through knowledge of their priorities.
For the Senior High School and College:
- Assist the students in their search for identity by providing an avenue for them to recognize, express and share their unique traits with others.
- Provide situations for the students that could help them interact well with others through socially responsible behavior.
- Aid the students in setting realistic goals by giving them opportunities that could help them plan ahead and discover their own strengths and limitations.
- Expose the students to different career opportunities that would guide and help them decide intelligently, carefully and wisely on what courses are best suited to their abilities, aptitude and interest.
- Orient the students on what to expect in college for a smooth transition from high school to college life.
