The Guidance and Counseling Office provides program aimed at maximizing development of individual and group potential, talents and giftedness to enable them to live to the fullest in school, at home and in the community.
The philosophy of the Guidance Office is anchored on the truth that each individual is loved, important, unique and capable of growth and development.
The NSC has a full-time Guidance Coordinator to serve as discipline officer, assisted by an assistant guidance coordinator for female students. Functions of Guidance Coordinator:
- Counseling
- Understanding self and environment
- Make choices and decisions
- Improve potentials, adjustment and coping skills
- And resolve concerns and problems that are educational intrapersonal, interpersonal, vocational and transpersonal
2. “Kuya” and “Ate” cell groups help new students adjust to life in NSC; the Guidance Coordinators bring them into a cell group who are “kuya” and “Ate” to them. The “Kuya” and “Ate” take a new student under their wings to help him / her adjust into the NSC culture: “ Feel at home away from home”
3. Group Guidance and Enrichment Program
4. Training and development program for students, teachers, and staff as orientation, seminars, conferences, group dynamics, peer counseling, and growth groups aimed at producing effective guidance agent
5. Consultation and Follow-up
6. A collaborative effort of parents, teachers, administrators, psychologists and other helping professionals to optimize necessary preventive and curative interventions to individuals at risks and in crises.
7. Student Inventory
8. Cumulative personal records that tend to distinguish information about background, aptitude, abilities, interests, achievements and experiences. Inventory includes classified information requiring confidentiality.
9. Research and Information
10. Carrying out studies and guideposts for the planning and upgrading of guidance program