“Since counselors play an important
role in shaping students’ ability to learn, communicate, and share information
with others, school counselors would be well served to understand how technology
can enhance their work” (Hayden, et al, 2008). As a future registered guidance
counselor, technology will help me in my job in many ways. First, technology
today is one of the most important tools in our society be it in learning, marketing
or any other fields.
As a guidance counselor, technology helps me
in advancing my knowledge in some counseling techniques and skills because
aside from my actual experiences and learning in school, technology helps me to
be updated on the different tools and techniques in counseling, even the issues
or any related topics about guidance and counseling which a very big help for
me to enhance my skills, knowledge and abilities as a guidance counselor. Also,
as a guidance counselor we are administering different psychological testing.
Today, we can use technology for online testing, online counseling and other
services. Even in our presentation, technology is very helpful especially in
presenting variety of student issues such as drug use, bullying, grades,
self-esteem, eating disorders, etc.
Moreover,
technology can be used for interactive presentations, online resources, and
collaboration with colleagues, counselor training, internet research,
assessment and many more. In my personal experience technology is very helpful for
me in terms of communication to my possible clients. Though online counseling
is not highly encouraged in our country, the technology can help me to start
conversation with my possible clients. Through technology, they can easily
reach and communicate with me and ask some queries wherein we can set our
one-on-one counseling session. Also,
it is very important since technology can help me to support students' development. It is also an
opportunity to save time and money and to find new ways to reach out to
children, parents, and educators by leveraging technology.
