After entering colleges and universities, many college students' learning and living environment has changed greatly, which makes their life and learning state very easy to go to extremes. College counselors, as the managers of grass-roots colleges who have the most contact with college students, play an important role. How to train qualified and excellent college counselors is also very important.
First, the necessity of training excellent college counselors
College students are a group with independent tendency, but they can't be independent, that is to say, they yearn for independence ideologically, but they are very dependent on their families economically. They must have a spiritual counselor.
(A) The employment pressure of college students needs the guidance of counselors.
The employment difficulty of college graduates has become one of the difficult problems that several national governments have tried to solve. How to solve this problem, all walks of life are also trying various methods. As one of the grass-roots teachers who have the most contact with college students, the importance is self-evident.
(2) In the face of social injustice, college students are prone to extremes and need psychological counseling from psychological counselors.
The unfair occupation of social resources, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, the division of new social classes, especially the negative reports of the "rich second generation" in the current society, all make educational equity an empty talk. Moreover, the differences between the eastern and western parts of China, coastal areas and inland areas, and even first-tier cities and second-and third-tier cities have also increased the incentives for college students to have extreme emotions. All these require effective guidance and guidance from counselors who always pay attention to the situation of college students.
(3) The values of college students are changing, which needs to be corrected by counselors in time.
With the post-90s generation gradually becoming the main body of college students, the ideological values of college students are also changing quietly. The market of pragmatism and nihilism has gradually expanded among college students, and even "non-mainstream" has become popular among college students. Although the "breaking the door" in vocational schools is an extreme case, it also shows the confusion of students' ideological trend today. Students who enter colleges and universities in this chaotic ideological trend need the timely intervention of counselors' psychological values.
(D) Many complex and specific tasks need to be solved by counselors and college students.
For example, implement the financial aid policy for students with financial difficulties, organize college students to participate in work-study programs, help students with financial difficulties complete their studies, and coordinate relevant societies, schools and institutions to complete the activities organized by the school. Counselors need to communicate and negotiate among various departments and groups.
Second, the advantages of college counselors in promoting student work
(A) the age advantage of college counselors makes it easier to communicate with college students.
College counselors are generally graduates who have just entered colleges and universities. The age advantage and similarity in experience are easy for counselors to quickly become one with college students. With the closeness of thoughts, the resistance to doing psychological work is much smaller and more responsive.
(2) College counselors have the energy, ability and resources to get along with college students, and it is easier to get close to their inner world.
From the job content, counselors are responsible for college students' life, study, daily life and even future employment. Moreover, with several years of college life, college students will learn more about their psychological state, ideological trends, learning situation and even the progress of love, which is beyond the reach of any other teacher in colleges and universities.
(3) Most college counselors come from graduates majoring in psychology and ideological and political science, and they have rich professional knowledge.
Influenced by years of ideological education, these counselors have accumulated a lot of theoretical knowledge before entering the work role, which makes it easier to combine theory with practice and carry out psychological counseling for college students in a timely and effective manner.
Three, college counselors should have several qualities
Due to the complexity of college students' ideological situation and their tendency to go to extremes, the requirements of colleges and universities for counselors are also changing.
(A) college counselors should have firm political beliefs and cultural literacy, solid knowledge of ideological education.
At present, the influence of various social thoughts on students' thoughts has been quite serious, especially many unresolved problems, such as the widening gap between the rich and the poor and the grim employment situation, which even lead many students to give up the college entrance examination and enter the university. How to minimize the influence of these negative factors on students in school requires college counselors to have firm political beliefs and political literacy and actively carry out ideological education.
(B) College counselors should have a wealth of psychological knowledge, can take the initiative to grasp the psychological dynamics of college students.
Because of the rapid spread of all kinds of information, today's college students have "seamlessly integrated" with society. The influence of all kinds of positive and negative information on college students lies in their psychological accumulation. If it is not diverted in time, once it breaks out, the consequences will be unimaginable. College counselors should have rich psychological knowledge, keep abreast of students' psychological trends, master students' emotional fluctuations at this stage and give timely guidance.
(C) College counselors have flexible thinking and working methods and strong coordination.
Counselors' specific student work must vary from person to person, with flexible thinking and diverse methods. Moreover, counselors should communicate with many departments and groups in the school at the same time, and their coordination ability is indispensable.
Four, colleges and universities should strengthen the training of counselors.
Counselors are managers who master students' first-hand information and deal with students' specific affairs. Colleges and universities should strengthen the training of counselors. Building an excellent team of counselors is one of the reliable guarantees for building a "harmonious campus".
(A) the decision-making level of colleges and universities should fully realize the importance of strengthening the training of counselors.
Counselors hold the first-hand psychological trends and concrete progress of college students, are the main force of ideological and political education in colleges and universities, the guide and confidant on the road of college students' growth, and the backbone of maintaining school stability.
(B) schools should use internal and external resources to comprehensively improve the overall quality of counselors.
On the one hand, schools should make use of their own conditions to create a relatively relaxed working environment for counselors; On the other hand, schools should also support counselors and students to do creative work together, not sticking to form. Schools should organize counselors to "please come in and go out", exchange training experience with brother schools, and improve their own quality and ability as soon as possible.
(3) Colleges and universities should assist counselors in career planning and improve their status, welfare and treatment.
Let counselors truly feel that they are also an important part of colleges and universities, and they are the mainstay of the school like academic teachers. After the status of counselors is widely recognized by schools and society, the "big career" planning of counselors' career planning will become independent and conscious, and the team of college counselors will develop steadily.
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