STUDENTS’ AND TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION OF COUNSELING NEEDS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

STUDENTS’ AND TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION OF COUNSELING NEEDS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

ABSTRACT

Counselling needs are needs of a student that are required to resolve  his/her  problems  which he/she  confronts  in  day  to  day  life situations and also to enrich his personal development. The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ and students’ perception of counselling needs of secondary school students in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State. Therefore, related literature which dealt with the teachers’ and students’ perception of counselling needs of secondary school students, was also reviewed as part of this study. The study employed a descriptive survey. Two research instruments were used in this study,  teachers’ perception questionnaire (TPQ) and students’ perception questionnaire (SPQ) were used as the instrument for data collection; Using simple random sampling techniques, two hundred questionnaires were distributed to students from the Ijebu North local government in Ago Iwoye. The data collected were thus analyzed using frequency count and t-test statistics. The findings of the study revealed that there is a significant difference between the perception of teachers’  and  students’ of counseling needs in secondary schools in Ijebu North Local Government, there is no significant difference between male and female students’ perception of counselling needs in secondary schools in Ijebu North Local Government and there is no significant difference between male and female teachers’ perception of counselling needs in secondary schools in Ijebu North Local Government.  It was concluded that curriculum developers should endeavour to take a critical look into the curriculum so as to improve the level of interest by students and teachers towards counselling needs so as to curb mass the negative effect of counselling as always recorded across the world every year. The study therefore recommended that there is need to organize for seminars and  workshops to offer continuing education in guidance and counselling. This will equip the teacher counsellors with latest theories and techniques of counselling to make them more effective counsellors and School  administrators  should  endeavour  to  provide  all  resources  for  guidance  and  counselling.  These include not only a counselling office equipped with reference materials, but also students’ personal files and adequate career resource materials.

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