It is designated as educational orientation to the set of activities aimed at students, parents and teachers and whose mission is to promote the development of their activities within the specific scope of educational centers.
Discipline that deals with studying and promoting the capacities of people in the educational field so that they can later apply them effectively where they act
The educational orientation will fit: study and promote at the same time the pedagogical, psychological and socioeconomic capacities of individuals with the intention of associating their personal development with that of their country.
This specialty intends to act in a preventive way and also in the development of the potentialities of those to whom it is addressed.
That the students or the people to whom it is directed develop knowledge, capacities, values and competences in various areas so that they can then act effectively in the social context that concerns them and in which they live.
The most used procedures are interviews, group dynamics, tutorials, intervention programs, among others.
Support in the teaching and learning process
Since its creation, educational guidance was conceived as an assistance and accompaniment procedure for students, teachers and families in general, in all aspects inherent to development.
Continuous practice and intervention throughout the entire educational process, among all the actors involved, will guarantee success.
The aforementioned discipline is generally carried out and coordinated by psycho-pedagogical teams in Early Childhood and Primary Education and by the area responsible for guidance in secondary school.
Somehow, the educational orientation will act as support of the teaching-learning process because it deals with providing the tools so that teachers can organize themselves more effectively in their work and also in this way facilitate the performance of their students.
On the other hand, it will also deal with facilitating the teaching and learning process in those students who present specific educational needs, thus offering a solution to individual diversity beyond origins and differences. Likewise, it will contribute its own in terms of professional and academic orientation refers, since the students will receive through the teachers the help to get to know themselves better and the different study alternatives to follow, once the basic learning cycle has been completed.
Benefits for educators
But the thing is not only about benefiting students, and educational guidance is also a very useful tool for teachers, since it will help them with more personal issues such as occupational health and professional career, and of course, they are aspects that undoubtedly indirectly affect the relationship with students.
Currently, this branch, closely linked to psychopedagogy, is taught in a large part of higher educational institutions, in a master’s or postgraduate format, and is aimed at teachers, pedagogues, psychologists, psychopedagogues, among other professionals, who have the intention to carry out specialized training in terms of content and practices that positively favor the teaching and learning processes.
As we have just pointed out, this discipline is in very close association with another very relevant one in the field of training such as educational psychology.
Pedagogy is precisely concerned with studying human behavior in the learning context, such as problems in this field as well as vocational guidance.
As we know, the correct formation of a person, at all levels and aspects, is essential when it comes to their consistent development and their success in life.
The knowledge acquired, added to the capacities of each individual fully developed, are key when it comes to allowing a person to successfully insert himself in all the fields in which he intervenes: social, labor, among others.
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