COUNSELING INTERNSHIP

(EDGC 4904)

JOURNAL 3

PREPARED BY: NURRULAINI BINTI AHMAD

PREPARED FOR: ASST.PROF. DR SHARIFAH ROHANIAH
BINTI SYED MAHMOOD
This journal will be talked about my experience, feeling, and expectation after one month

being a trainee counselor in SMK Selayang Bharu. So far, overall was good as I started to get

more and more clients to fulfil my requirement as well as I am able to adapt with the school

culture and envitonment. The best thing so far after one month being in SMK Selayang Bharu

was that the students already acknowledge me and my partner existence as their trainee

counselor. This is because our guidance and counselling room are getting more and more

students that came to share their issues, ideas or anything they want compared to before.

Throughout this one month in the school, both of us are able to participate in few school

activities where we were asked to conduct the career guidance for Form 5 students and being

emcee for few programme. By participate ourselves in the school activities, me myself got to

learnt lot of new things such as I would able to observe, and learn how was the teachers

conduct the activities, the working style of teachers in SMK Selayang Bharu either it is

positive or negative and got some advices from the teachers on how to organize an activity

for school setting from teacher there. Thus, I also got to know the teachers there better as our

office was far away from the teacher’s room, so it is very hard for both of us to meet others

teachers even coincidently except in the school canteen or when there is any program the we

also need to participate with.

However, throughout this one month also, I am not really able to start conducting my

group counselling session as some of my are students from upper form and especially form 5

students and their teacher kind of hard to let them go for session because they are in a group

and yet,I understood that. I also hard to get clients especially lower form students as they are

in evening session. This is because, both of us are not really participate with evening session

students as our working hours are only until 4 pm. Plus, we did not really know the evening

session’s teachers. Due to this issues, I can only call them for session when their class got

relief and this is being applied for the individual counselling session also as I did not want to
disturb their learning and teaching time as well as I did not to create an issue among teacher

except when I really need to call my client due to few issue that cannot be avoided such as

when I need to record their session or when I need to conduct an inventory with them. As for

the time being, most of the teacher in SMK Selayang Bharu gave a very good cooperation

when I need to call my client for counselling session except for few teachers who did want

their students being disturb during learning and teaching process. Yet, they will ask us either

the students came for the session or not because they did not want the students to take

advantages when they are allowed to get out from classes.

Last but not least, as mentioned in the journal before, during this one month in the

schools, we are having no issues regarding getting the clients as students are really

cooperative and willing to come for the session without reluctant. Other than that, all the

school counsellors are very nice and cooperative as well as helpful. So, it is very easy for us

if we want to ask them anything or when we need to hear their opinion regarding any issues

especially about students because they know the students well more than us as they already

have more experience compared to us. Overall, I am able to face this whole month

successfully despite all the challenge the I need to face with and I am kind of realize that I

only have few months more with the students and surely I will miss all my students and all

the experience I got throughout my existence in SMK Selayang Bharu.