The Performance of Guidance and Counseling Teachers and Their Coaching: a Study at Junior and Senior High Schools of Kabupaten Merangin.

This research is done since the implementation of guidance and counseling service at schools does not work well especially in the coaching of the guidance and counseling teachers. There are three purposes of this research. The first is to describe the perfomance coaching efforts done by the teachers themselves. The second is to describe the performance coaching efforts done by the head masters. The third is to describe the performance coaching efforts done by the guidance and counseling supervisors. The performance coaching efforts discussed in this research is related toward the implementation of the guidance and counseling service at schools as well as its supporting facilities and funds. The type of the research was quantitative by using the descriptive method. The samples were fifty five guidance and counseling teachers and two supervisors from junior and senior high schools who were selected by using the total sampling technique. The instrument used was the Likert model scale. There are three findings of the research. First, the efforts done by the guidance and counseling teachers were in the “less”. Second, the efforts done by the head master were in the “very less”. Third, the efforts done by the supervisors were in the “very less”. However, the coaching efforts need to be improved and developed for both the process and implementation. The result of this research can be used as a consideration to the coaching of guidance and counseling teachers’ performances in implementing the successful guidance and counseling services at schools.