The Student Development Center in partnership with other educators, parents, guardians and the community aims to aid the learners in the various aspects of development involved in their education and maturation into fully functioning individuals in the society.
OBJECTIVES
The Student Development Center aims to:
- Provide the learners with personal, educational, career, health, social, recreational and religious guidance.
- Identify the learners’ abilities, needs, interests, aptitudes, plans and goals for satisfactory and productive adjustment to life.
- Develop the learners in such a way that they can fit into the culture, make their maximum contribution to and assist in their advancement in the society.
- Provide the learners with means that are important in developing their personhood to fully respond to the demands of time and to society where they belong.
- Focus on the youth and their future as they make plans, choices, interpretations, and adjustments.
1. ORIENTATION PROGRAM
The orientation program of the Student Development Center is composed of collective topics which include the school’s history, vision and mission, milestones and achievements, school officials and different school units, policies, rules and regulations of the school, and the life of Mother Ignacia Del Espiritu Santo.
Creative presentations and games capture the interests of its stakeholders from K to 12. Late enrollees are also conducted with special orientation sessions.
2. INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP COUNSELING
The counseling services observe flexibility and client-friendly approach in guiding the learners towards good decision making. As the focal point of the center, counseling services primary aim is to direct the client into a result-oriented resolution and conclusion. Counseling services may be individual or group. It also may be availed through walk-in or referral basis.
3. TESTING AND EVALUATION SERVICES
These services provide objective measure of the learners’ intelligence, aptitudes, interests, personality and achievement. The Testing and Evaluation Services also provides data that may be used for improvement of the academic curricular, faculty-student relationship and many others. Moreover, the evaluation services aims to pulse the efficiency and effectiveness of school services and offerings.
4. INDIVIDUAL INVENTORY SERVICE
The individual inventory service is the embodiment of a process by which a client is individually analyzed in different aspects:
a. Personal Information
b. Family background
c. Socio-Economic Status
d. Study Habits, Interests and Social Environment and Behavior
e. Vocational Interests
f. Psychometric results
Consultations with learners are conducted annually to update their data, using assessment forms carefully designed by the SDC to cater to their developmental needs.
a. In-interview (routine interview) - usually conducted on first semester
b. Exit interview - usually conducted on second semester
5. CAREER AND PLACEMENT SERVICES
The Career Awareness Program ensures to cascade the information about career pathing among its objectives is to aid learners to discern and plan for their chosen career in the future through a series of career awareness activities such as individual and group career counseling sessions, test interpretation consulatations, seminars on career awareness, homeroom module integrations, on site college application processing and career fair.
6. HOMEROOM GUIDANCE PROGRAM /LIFE ENRICHMENT PERIOD
The Homeroom Guidance Program / Life enrichment Program is an activity done in the classroom in order to provide an interactive environment of learning values, proper behavior, imbibing the ideals of the RVM Foundress, Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, social and environmental issues, family and life issues; and friendship and relationships topics which may be an avenue to share and partake life's experiences. Modules are given to the homeroom advisers who will facilitate the modules. An annual training for facilitators are also done.
7. SPECIAL LIFE ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS, SEMINARS AND TRAININGS
The Special Life Enrichment Seminars are seminars with topics relating to learning values, proper behavior and etiquitte, study habits, imbibing the ideals of the RVM Foundress, Mother Ignacia Del Espiritu Santo, social and environmental issues, family and life issues, the JEEPGY and; friendhsips and relationships topics which are given by the Student Development Officers mostly in a half-day session. Mental Health and Psychosocial Sessions are also included in the SDC's program.
Topics are presented in a creative and fun filled way to capture the audience interests. Moreover, special seminars are offered for individuals who may be interested to enrich their life skills through listening and participating on special modules. Meanwhile, the training services aims to enrich one’s knowledge over a particular topic through workshops.
8. FOLLOW-UP SERVICES
The follow-up services are different techniques to monitor the adaptability of the alumni to their new social environment. Activities are done through interviews and surveys.
