Identifying the Influential Characteristics of Good Teachers' Counselling Role from the Perspective of Teachers, Students & Parents.

Abstract

The present research aims to study the understanding of teachers, students and parents from Influential characteristics of good teachers' counselling role from the perspective of teachers, students and parents that can be employed beside teachers' educational role. The statistical population consisted of teachers, students and parents which was done in the form of Grounded theory through semi structured interviews by targeted sampling:17 teachers,36 students (18 high scores and 18 low scores) and 25 parents were included in the sample group. Based on the findings, participating teachers found the main influential features of the teacher counselling role in two main categories: " improving teacher counselling techniques" and " improving teachers' personal and family life skills"," students in three main categories: " Academic counselling"," non-academic counselling" and ethical counselling" and parents in three main categories:" parents understanding about their children problems", "familiarity of teachers and school management about parents problems" and " parents awareness of school problems and its management". The result is that in schools where students are deprived of a counsellor, most of the students' problems can be solved through counselling role of good teachers. Here the teacher does not replace the counsellor, but only tries to improve the performance of teachers and quality of guidance and counselling services of the school.

Keywords

• the counselling role of good teachers
• its impressive features
• students
• parents