The Improvement of Teacher Competencies in Guidance and Counseling for the Development of Students Personality

This study was a multi-year study, which lasted for 3 years. Year one activities was about identifying problems faced by the counselors and teachers in relation to personality development in the program of guidance and counseling, analyzing the curriculum, analyzing the content of the activities, developing draft guidelines: (a) the teacher's guide, (b) the students' guide, and (c) the assessment guide. While second year activities included: development of instruments for the pilot study on guidance and counseling, completed expert evaluation and revision, accomplished a small-scale field testing and revision of the product, implemented large-scale field trials and final products, trained teachers and students about how to use products that had been developed. And the third year comprised of measuring the effectiveness of the guidelines that had been developed to enhance the professionalism of teachers, counselors, and students through a quasi-experiment. The results of the study, revealed that: the devised individual-development guide was effective in improving the counselor's competence in conducting guidance and counseling to the high school students. This showed that instruments developed are suitable for teachers in conducting guidance and counseling program at the level of senior high school.