This document discusses the roles of teachers as counselors. It defines counselors as trained practitioners who help people through short or long-term guidance. Teachers' counseling roles include collecting student information through formal tests and informal observations, identifying student problems like conflicts, lack of skills or career information, and helping students adjust, make decisions, and solve learning problems by referring them to school counselors and cooperating with parents. Student misbehavior can stem from biological, social, and environmental factors like genetics, bullying, or trauma.

1. TEACHER’S ROLES AS
A COUNSELLOR
Prepared by:
Alexandra Joachim
Nur Hannan Haron Khan

2. DEFINITION
Who is a COUNSELLOR?
• A person trained to give guidance on personal
or psychological problems (Oxford Dictionary)
• ‘…delivered by trained practitioners who work
with people over a short or long term to help
them bring about effective change or enhance
their wellbeing.’ (British Association for
Counselling and Psychotherapy)

3. ROLES OF A
COUNSELLOR
Establish good rapport
with external bodies,
NGO (police, JKM,
LPPKM, Pejabat Agama
Islam)
Carry out individual and
group counselling
Plan motivational
program for students
and staff
Help the student to
understand inner self
(potential) and his social
relationship
Help the students to
maximize his potential
and capability
Provides the students
information to parents
and administrators on
the students’ well-being

4. DEFINITION
Who is a TEACHER?
• A teacher is a person who delivers knowledge,
assesses and facilitates students’ participation
in teaching and learning process
• Teacher is someone who gives anything which
is good, positive, creative and developing
humankind without expecting any rewards
(Al-Ghazali)

5. TEACHER’S ROLE AS A
COUNSELLOR

6. 1. Collecting Students’
Information• What are students’ information?
– Background knowledge
– Students’ potential
– Academic Achievement/performance
– Behaviour
• Purpose:
– Record students development over the years
– Collaborate with the school’s counsellor and
administrator
– Reflect the students’ performance

7. Methods of collecting students’ information:
1. Test technique
- Used to test or diagnose students’ aptitude,
interest, achievement, personality and etc…
- Objective
- Formal
2. Non-test technique
- To gather information about students in a more
comprehensive and holistically
- Subjective
- Informal

8. TestTechnique
Achievement Test
Aptitude Test
Personality Test
Career Test
Attitude TestNon-testTechnique
Observation
Interview
Document
Analysis

9. 2. Identifying Students’
Problems
• Students who have communication problems with their parents,
teachers and peers
Interpersonal Conflict
• Students who have problems in making decision need clear
information to the alternative solutions of their problem
Intrapersonal Conflict
• Students who want to know more about themselves regarding
ability, strength and interest.
Lack of Self awareness

10. • Students need to learn different skills for
instance effective ways of learning, assertive
behaviour, effective listening skill
Lack of skills
• Students need more information about career
opportunities and how to succeed.
Lack of information on career

11. According to Thomas Achenbach (1992), there
are 4 categories of students’ behavioural
problem:
1) Internalizing behaviour
2) Externalizing behavior
3) Social, Attention and Mental problem
4) Other problems

12. INTERNALIZING
BEHAVIOUR
• This happens when students suppress their
emotion within themselves
• 3 types of internalizing behaviours:
– Somatic problems : tiredness, nausea, headache,
dizziness
– Withdrawn : shy, daydreaming, sulking, sad,
– Paranoid : crying, scared, lonely, worry, guilt

13. EXTERNALIZING
PROBLEM
• Emotional problem that are shown through
behaviour
• Delinquent behaviour – lying, cursing, playing
truant, stealing, vandalism
• Aggressive behaviour – yelling, show-off,
mocking, black mailing, hot-tempered,
attention seeker

14. SOCIAL, ATTENTION AND
MENTAL PROBLEM
• Social problem
– does not act their age
– Lack of social skill
– Clumsy
– Mingle with younger people
• Mental problem
– Hallucinating (hearing and seeing things)
– Weird, out of norm, unacceptable behaviour

15. • Attention problem
– Hyperactive
– Short attention span
– Daydreaming
– Slow learner

16. OTHER PROBLEMS
• Sleep talking
• Nightmares
• Eating disorder
• Suicidal
• Nail biting
• Speech problem/stutter

17. Teacher as a Counsellor
Helping students
in adjusting to
their surrounding
Helping students
in their studies
Giving awareness
of the importance
of education
Helping students
in making rational
decision
Solving students’
learning problem
Helping the
students with their
learning routine
Referring the
students to the
school counsellor
Cooperating with
school counsellor
Filling in the 001
card (primary
school)
Cooperating with
parents

18. FACTORS LEAD TO
MISBEHAVIOUR AMONG
STUDENTS

19. BIOLOGICAL FACTOR
Genetic, biochemistry
SOCIETY FACTOR
Bullying, withdrawal, low-self esteem
ENVIRONMENT FACTOR
Trauma which affects the students’ self development
Students are prone to be depressed and pessimist