At Bilfen Schools we adopt a developmental guidance approach. Our students are supported by the Psychological Counselling and Guidance Department to help them successfully attain the developmental targets at every stage of their life. For this purpose, parallel to the individual and group guidance activities that are held by the guidance teachers throughout the year, we place importance on keeping in contact and collaborating with all the parties that play an important role in students’ development.

GUIDANCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELLING SERVICES IN BILFEN

 

Orientation Program

The orientation program consists of individual and group activities that are held in order to introduce the school, its system, and its activities to all the 1st Graders who are new to the school as well as students who are transferred from another school; and to accelerate their adaptation to Bilfen’s educational system.

 

At all grade levels; forms, inventories, and tests are used, interviews are held, and observations are made in order to get to know our students emotionally, socially, cognitively, and behaviorally.

 

These include the age-appropriate activities that we hold in order to make sure that the students in all grade levels adapt to school rules and grow up as successful, responsible individuals.

 

Learning Styles Activities 

Learning profiles of each student are constructed and making the learning processes of students smoother and permanent is targeted in the Learning Styles Program which is developed on the basis of the principle of " Every student learns in different ways".

 

Personality Based Education and Counselling Approach is a personality anticipation system which explains how inherent personality type of students will shape their character and personality structure that can change and develop as a result of education and interaction with social environment. This approach guides educators in terms of the answers of "Which approach should be applied to which students and how?" for the sake of more effective current approach strategies employed in education.

 

By use of various tools, we determine students’ inherent resources and we enable students to recognize and use those resources in their life. Consequently, it is expected for students’ life satisfaction, well-being, level of happiness, and academic achievement to increase; and for potential problems and negative thinking tendencies to decrease.

Personality Based Education Model Personality Based Education and Counselling Approach is a personality prediction system which explains how inherent personality type of students will shape their character and personality that can change and develop as a result of education and interaction with social environment. This approach guides educators by helping them answer questions of "Which approach should be applied to which students and how?" so that the current approaches employed in education can be rendered more effective.

Psychoeducation is based on positive psychology. In psychoeducation activities we focus on students’ developing positive characteristics, developing positive experiences, and increase subjective well-being. In these activities, we aim to ensure that students exploit and develop their strengths and positive characteristics, uncover their resources, and focus on resources rather than risks and their strengths rather than weaknesses.

 

Designed on the basis of PASS Theory, the Thinking Skills Program aims to develop effective use of cognitive operation areas and thinking skills; and it provides opportunities for effective use of thinking skills in academic work. Within the implementation of the program, students can choose the appropriate cognitive behavior in social situations by creating smart solutions or can demonstrate the ability to generate a solution to an academic problem.

 

Creativity Activities 

Creativity activities consist of home assignments in 1st to 5th Grades that aim to enable students to retrieve information from the memory fast and fluently whenever they need to, break the existing patterns of thought and think freely when solving a problem, produce unusual or different solutions to a problem, and elaborate and extend on a simple stimulus that is given.

Activities for Supporting Learning Performance

Such activities include the individual or group work that is conducted to determine the challenges that our students experience in their learning and help them increase their levels of academic achievement.

Educational Booklets and Publications 

Brochures and books that target the characteristics and the needs of each grade level are published for our students and parents.

 

Parent conferences are held regularly to maintain students’ developmental monitoring and support processes in mutual communication and collaboration with students’ parents and thus to address home and school life as a whole.