Profile School Counselors

School counselors are not the same as regular teacher. Teachers bisang more studies are edukatof, but counselors aim at reducing the problem and do not teach like a teacher. It is certainly the duty of a counselor is more severe than bisang studies teacher, because in dealing with counselee needed understanding of the characteristics, personality, interests, talents, and associated with counselee is having problems. So that require counseling techniques relevant to the problem counselee. 

The profile displays the characteristics of a counselor who is known for a long time. In 1994 Graves has shown that a counselor should have the integrity and vitality, agile, and skilled, has the ability to assess and predict a sharp, high personal standards, trained and widely experienced. Dowson (1948) saw that the counselors should possess the characteristics of an objective, respecting the child, understand themselves, cooked in assessing and estimating, able to listen and keep secrets, a human source, firm in conviction, have a sense of humor, able to criticize constructively, and has a mature and integrated personality. At that time it has also recognized 24 outstanding characteristic of a counselor, among others: honest, loyal, healthy, good personality and character, has a solid philosophy of life and have the attitude that what he was doing it (ie employment counseling) is a matter that should do. 

Guidance and Counselling Perfomance

A. About Guidance and Counselling     
    Guidance and counseling is a proactive and systematic effort in facilitating individuals achieve optimum levels of development, development of effective behavior, development environment, and enhanced functionality or benefits of individuals in their environment. All of these behavioral changes is a process of individual development, namely the process of interaction between individuals through interaction with the environment healthy and productive. Guidance and counseling holding duties and responsibilities that are essential for developing the environment, build a dynamic interaction between individuals with the environment, membelajarkan individuals to develop, modify and improve behavior. Referring to the Law no. 20/2003 on National Education System, the term for the supervising teacher established a "counselor." The presence of a counselor in the national education system is stated as one of the qualifications of educators, parallel to the qualifications of teachers, lecturers, civil learning, tutors, lecturers, facilitators and instructors (Act no. 20/2003, article 1, paragraph 6). Explicit recognition and alignment position between educators and the other one does not eliminate the sense that all educators, including counselors, has a task context, performance expectations, and setting specific services that contain the uniqueness and difference.

     Basic considerations or thoughts on the administration of guidance and counseling at the School / Madrasah, not solely lie on the presence or absence of legal basis, statute or rule from above, but more importantly, on efforts to facilitate learners to be able to develop her potential or achieve its development tasks in an optimal (concerning aspects of physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and moral-spiritual).Guidance and counseling services are expected to help learners in self-knowledge, recognition and decision-making environment, and provide direction to the development of learners, not only for learners with problems but for all learners. Guidance and counseling services are not limited to particular learners or who need to be 'called' it ', but for all learners.