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Guidance Unit

Private Ankara ABC Primary School

Psychological Counseling and Guidance Services

 The ABC Primary School Psychological Counseling and Guidance Services are based on the IB PYP philosophy and aim to:

  • Help individuals get to know themselves and adapt to home, school, and society.
  • Enable self-management.
  • Make correct choices and self-realization.
  • Establish healthy interactions and live in harmony with other people.
  • Possess human and basic values.
  • Discover talents and interests to complete their social, psychological, and cognitive development in a healthy way.
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  • Support them in accessing knowledge by following their own learning.

As an approach and content, ABC Schools PDR Unit aims to provide "Developmental and Preventive Guidance" services, focusing on learner-centeredness and creating the necessary environment for the entire learning community to collaborate.

School Psychological Counseling and Guidance Unit Activities

The ABC Schools PDR Unit has created its own unique curriculum for its PDR Services in accordance with the standards of the Ministry of National Education and the IB, and continues its instructional activities with this program. However, Psychological Counseling and Guidance Services have a wide program that includes duties and responsibilities beyond instruction, including the educational program.

PDR Services Instructional Program

The ABC Schools PDR Unit determines topics and carries out various studies to raise individuals who have the IB learner profile characteristics, who use all their learning with the skills they have acquired and who take action. Therefore, the PDR Services Instructional Program does not cover a specific lesson duration. Achievements prepared in accordance with the class levels are worked on by focusing on certain periods in the program as class levels progress. However, the main goal is for these achievements to be internalized with a common perspective by the entire learning community from the first grade to the fourth grade.

Behavior Improvement Studies:

  • The guidance teacher holds frequent student-focused meetings with the school administration and teachers to make detailed evaluations about all students.
  • Throughout the year, tests, inventory studies, in-class and out-of-class observation studies are conducted.

  • Based on all these studies, behaviors that hinder the student's adaptation to the school environment and socialization are determined, and therefore, behaviors to be changed are identified. Then, efforts are made to get the entire learning community to adopt a common attitude towards the target behavior. These efforts can be carried out in various ways depending on the need; such as arrangements related to the educational environment, individual or group studies, student workshops, student and parent meetings, and agreements.

  • Collaboration with Parents:

Learners' parents are an essential part of the learning community. Therefore, every step taken for student development should be taken together.

The ABC Schools Psychological Counseling and Guidance Unit prioritizes practices such as "Parent Education" and "Parent Guidance" by collaborating with families within the service flow. For this purpose, education programs are implemented on issues such as students' needs and problems, family relationships, communication with children and adolescents, developmental stages and characteristics, and parenting attitudes. At the same time, brochures, bulletins, and brochures are prepared to support parents, and conferences and seminars are organized.

Regular parent meetings are planned during the term with the aim of obtaining information about our student's past experiences and personality characteristics, providing information about our applied education program, providing feedback on the results of inventories and tests conducted, and obtaining feedback on the results of the studies carried out within the scope of preventive and developmental guidance.

Every child is a unique individual. Child education is an art that determines the future of societies and should be continued throughout life. Private Ankara ABC Primary School Psychological Counseling and Guidance Unit plans and carries out its work with the awareness of its responsibility to raise individuals who are committed to national values, have international awareness, and are sensitive to themselves, society, and the world.