Creative Pedagogy Training for School Counselors: Strategies to Foster Joyful and Meaningful Learning in Guidance and Counseling Services Susi Fitri (1), Mohamad Saripudin (2) , Irsyad Ridho (3), Carol Carter (4), Paul Gardner (5)
123 Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
45 Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Abstract
The professional competence of school counselors in providing guidance and counseling services in schools needs to be improved. An extensive training program is needed to overcome the problem of weak professional competence of school counselors. This community service program aims to develop the professional competence of counselors, especially enriching the methods of providing guidance and counseling services through creative pedagogy. This community service is included in the type of international collaboration between Jakarta State University and Curtin University. The methods used consist of socialisation, training, mentoring, making learning videos, evaluation, and follow-up. The implementation of socialisation is carried out by distributing brochures via a WhatsApp Group. The training was carried out for two days, namely on May 27 and 28, 2025. Mentoring was carried out during two sessions, which were conducted online. Evaluation was carried out during the training process, and the results were. Follow up is the development of other programs to develop counselor competence with ABKIN Jakarta and the development of books containing a collection of RPP/RPL from the results of the training.
Keywords: Creative pedagogy, counselor competence, joyful learning, deep learning.
