Challenges Faced by Teacher Counsellors of Secondary Schools in the Smart City Bhubaneswar, Odisha Khanda Subhasish Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, The ICFAI University, Tripura, India Online published on 2 September, 2019. Abstract Secondary school students are identified at the age of adolescence by role confusions, conflicts and anxiety. Teacher counsellors’ faced various challenges to handle such students. Thus the present study seeks to investigate Challenges Faced by Teacher Counsellors of secondary Schools in the Smart City Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Study employed descriptive survey design, participants being the principals and teacher counsellors of Bhubaneswar city, where guidance and counselling services were carried out. Descriptive statistics in frequencies & percentage were used to analyse data. Study found that teacher counsellors were facing many challenges like non-availability of adequate resources, lack of time, lack of professional training & skills, heavy work pressure, lack of parental support and support from school administration. Based on the above findings, study recommended that, a full time counsellor must be appointed on regular basis for each school, school management should provide minimum basic requirement, sanction necessary funds to the teacher counsellor or counsellor. Principals and parents should possess positive attitude towards guidance and counselling services carried out in schools. Top Keywords Guidance & counselling services, Secondary School and teacher counsellor. Top |