This document outlines the roles and responsibilities of counselors in IGNOU study centers. It discusses how counseling differs from lecturing by involving tutoring, discussing, and advising. Key responsibilities of counselors include promoting learning, providing advice and tutoring, being patient and building interpersonal relationships as mentors. Counselors are also expected to provide information to students, help them with their studies, listen to concerns, and organize counseling sessions related to coursework, programs, and credit patterns. Counselors give feedback on assignments by providing margin comments, global comments summarizing aspects, and justifying grades. They also motivate and support students' individual learning needs.

1. Roles and responsibilities of
Counsellor in the Study Centre
S.KISHORE
IGNOU Regional Centre,
Madurai

2.  How it is different from
lecturing
 Tutoring + Discussing +
Advising

3.  Academic Counsellor to promote
Learning
 Learning=Reading+recalling+retent
ion+thinking+writing+doing

4.  Advice
 Tutoring
 Patient
 Inter personal relation
 Be a Mentor
 Information provider
 Helping
 Listening

5.  Theory courses
 2 credits - three 2 ½ hr sessions
 4 credits - Five 2 ½ hr session
 8 credits - Ten 2 ½ hr session
 BED 4 credits – 6 2 hr session
 Note: if no. of students is less than
10 only, claim restricted to 40% of
sessions

6.  About the Open and Distance
learning
 Profile of Institution
 Self-earning materials
 Programmes
 Courses
 Credit pattern

7.  Programmed Structured material
 Prepared for self-learning
 Specific instructional design
 Defines learning outcome
 Helps practice
 Helps in assessing the progress in study
 Guides in retention, review, recall

8.  Organising
 Helping learning
 Creating discussion
 Group work
 Improving Study skills
 Attention towards problems of
individual learners

9.  Motivating learners
 Improving the communication skills of
learners
 Time management of learners
 Tips for writing Assignments
 Clarify their doubts
 Creating active participation of
learners

10.  Individual attention
 Listening to the problems of learners
 Suggestion for environment to study
 Understanding individual
family/work difficulties
 Suggesting measures for self-study
for specific hours in a week

11.  VCD
 GYAN DARSHAN
 GYAN VANI
 TELECONFERENCING
 ICT use is for better understanding of
subject and for retention, review, recall

12.  Learner is isolated
 Absence of regular contact with
institution
 Progress of study is missing
 To build two-way communication
 To give Feedback

13.  Margin Comments written on every
page of responses
 Global comments summarizing all
aspects

14.  Counsellors to write Tutor Comments
on assignments submitted
 Margin Comments
 Check for-Originality
 Presentation
 Language
 Structured presentation
 Illustrations/ Diagrams

15.  References
 Global Comments
 Summarising margin comments
 Suggestions for improvement
 Detailed global comments
 Justification for grade/marks given
 That is comments act as feedback and
two-way communication

16.  Positive Comments
 Constructive Comments
 Personal Comments

17.  Originality
 Own writing
 Copying from study materials
 Copying form other learners
 Additional material referred
 Written from experiential learning

18.  Global comments to summaries
overall comments
 Suggestions given in global
comments for specific improvement
 Justification to be given for
marks/grades awarded

19.  About applying for re-
registration to continue study
 Applying for Term-end
examination
 Reminding the submission of
assignments

20. GENERAL NORMS
 2 credits - 7days of two 4hr session per
day
 4 credits -14 days of two 4hr session per
day
 MCA/BCA - 1 credit– 10 sessions of 3hr
each

21.  Organizing Practical sessions
 Emphasis to hands-on experience
 Explaining Method and guiding the
practical sessions
 Improving analytical skills of
learners

22. o Improving Problem solving skills
o Help in arriving results and
inference
o Guiding in maintaining
report/records
o Linking with every day experience
o Conduct of Unguided session.

23.  Project are to be done for certain
Programmes
 Always synopsis to be prepared
 Format for Synopsis is in Project
Guidelines
 Synopsis approval is required
 Project Report to be submitted along
with approved synopsis

24.  Format to be followed as per Project
Guidelines
 Project Report : Title, Objectives,
Hypothesis, Research Methodology,
Sampling Methods, Tools for
Collection of data, Analysis of Data
Findings and Interpretation
 Report submission: To Whom-
available in Project Guidelines issued

25. IGNOU Regional Centre,
Sikkandar Chavadi, Alanganallur Road
Madurai- 625018
Phone:0452-2370388/2380733
e-mail: rcmadurai@ignou.ac.in
IGNOU website: www.ignou.ac.in

26. Thank You