Assessment of guidance and counseling services

This study aimed to assess the guidance and counseling services at Paknaan Elementary School of Mandaue City Division, North District during School Year 2018-2019 as basis for a proposed comprehensive school guidance program for elementary level. It employed descriptive-correlation method with the use of survey questionnaire as the primary means of gathering the data answered by the elementary teachers. The statistical treatments used were the simple percentage, weighted mean, and the correlation-coefficient. This study used universal sampling techniques wherein 111 populations were all selected as a respondent of the study. As revealed in the teacher designees’ profile majority with bachelor’s degree and dominant of the respondents are teachers’ designees. There was a fair distribution of the years in service as a schoolteacher designee and dominant number of teachers teaching more than ten years The teacher designees need more training related to guidance and counseling services since their training was more on teaching related works. The overall assessment of guidance personnel services is moderately adequate. It was revealed that there was a significant distinction between the profile of the teacher designees particularly on the educational qualifications, the kind of designation of a teacher as a guidance counsellor, and the length of service towards the guidance services that were implemented. It has also been revealed that the overall adequacy level on the common problems encountered by the respondents is high.  The recommendations on how to improve or validate the results of the study were likewise drawn out of the results of the study.