The Guidance Program of the Ateneo de Davao Grade School Wellness and Testing Center (WTC) provides services that fundamentally support its clientele, mainly comprising its pupils. These services are directed and controlled to help each individual develop their potential. Moreover, the services implemented in the Guidance Program include the following: counseling, testing, individual analysis, information, career development, placement, follow-up, and evaluation.
The program helps each individual become a fully functional person capable of maintaining healthy social relationships, living as a responsible citizen of the community, and actively contributing to the larger society of which he/she is a part.
GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING PROGRAM
Since counseling is an integral part of the Ateneo educational process, the Wellness and Testing Center (WTC) offers services and developmental programs to support pupils’ personal skill development. To ensure the realization of the school’s Vision and Mission to develop pupils who are Christ-centered, Compassionate, Competent, Committed, and who are leaders with Conscience; as well as to become a “fire that enkindles other fire,” the counselors use an integral approach to help develop a well-functioning individual by helping him/her to realize his/her potentials to the fullest and plan his/her present and future in accordance with his/her abilities, interests, and needs.
The WTC conducts psychological testing, research, placement and referral, follow-up, information, and individual inventory analysis.
- Counseling – the dynamic personal interaction between a counselor and counselee/s, where the counselor employs methods, approaches, or techniques to enhance the counselee’s intrapersonal and interpersonal development and competencies.
- Consultation – the mutual sharing and analysis of information among administration, faculty, and parents to facilitate decision-making and learning about strategies for helping the counselee.
- Individual Inventory/Analysis – the collection of information about the individual for proper understanding, decision-making, and placement.
- Information – the comprehensive and systematic collection and dissemination of information through various methods, programs, and seminar–workshops to assist pupils in their personal and educational concerns and to assist parents in understanding their children.
- Research/Survey – the attempt to learn the needs of the institutional community, establish the need for improvement, validate new strategies, techniques, and interventions, and discover different alternatives for attaining goals.
- Referral – the tapping of agencies, organizations, or individuals that may be of better assistance in the counselee’s resolution of problems and attainment of full potential.
- Placement – the facilitation of the client’s movement to the appropriate educational level, entry into the co-curricular and extra-curricular activities appropriate for the pupil.
- Follow-up – the appraisal of the progress shown by counselees who have been counseled, placed, or referred, and the appraisal of next counseling steps.
Services offered:
- Information Service
- Testing Service
- Individual and Group Counseling
- Research and Evaluation
- Homeroom Guidance, Referrals
- Parent Conferences
- Staff Development
Tests offered to pupils:
- Entrance Examination
- School Ability Test
- Intelligence Tests
- Diagnostic Tests
- Achievement Test
- Emotional Test
CONTACT INFORMATION
WELLNESS AND TESTING CENTER (WTC)
Ateneo de Davao University Grade School, Matina Campus, McArthur Highway, Matina, Davao City
Landline: (082) 299 – 2404 local 4122 available only from 8 AM to 4 PM (+8:00 UTC)