Competence of Guidance and Counseling Teachers (counselors) of junior and senior high schools in Semarang Regency and Semarang City

The development of technology and information in the modern era has had a major impact on the world of education. The challenges of educators in the future, especially guidance and counseling teachers such as drugs, pornography and others. Therefore, a guidance and counseling teacher in the modern era must now have relevant competencies in order to be able to face and solve these problems. Competence is knowledge, skills, and values that are reflected in the habits of thinking and acting of a professional. Humanist competencies are part of the personal competence and professional competence of the guidance and counseling teacher. Humanist competence will help the teacher guidance and counseling in the implementation of services, namely in looking at and behaving towards the counselee. This study aims to identify the level of humanist competence of guidance and counseling teachers in the City and District of Semarang and Junior High Schools with a sample of 108 teachers. The quantitative descriptive research method was used in this study. The results showed the level of humanist competence of guidance and counseling teachers were mostly in the very high and high categories, only a small proportion were still in the low and very low categories.