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Guidance and Counseling

Notes 9.2.2 Guiding Gifted Students

The following steps may be followed while guiding the gifted children : Identify the gifted children
on the basis of observation of their characteristics, interaction styles, quality of assignment and
participation project work. Administer intelligence test. Select the most appropriate approach for
catering the gifted children. These approaches are :
• Segregation of gifted children and arranging classes exclusively for them.
• Acceleration through which the gifted children may be allowed to complete the prescribed
course of study in a shorter period.
• Enrichment programme through prescribing enriched content and suggesting additional books
and journals for their study.
9.2.3 Guiding Creative Students

The teacher in the class and outside the class may encourage the spirit of enquiry in the student. Full
freedom should be provided for coming out with new ideas. Psychological freedom and psychological
safety are essential for creative expression.
They should be given full freedom for the development of their imagination. You may use special
programmes designed to facilitate their thinking. They should be encouraged to think on the courses
and consequences of an action. They should also be encouraged to think different approaches and
alternatives.

The technique of brainstorming or creative problem solving can be conveniently used in
small groups of students.

9.3 Aims of Personal Guidance at School Level

The purposes of guidance and counseling provide emphasis and strength to the educational program.
Some specific aims of the school guidance and counseling program include the following.
To Provide for the Realization of Students Potentialities,
The Help Children with Developing Problems,
To Contribute to the Development of the School’s Curriculum,
To Provide Teachers with Technical Assistance,
To Contribute to the Mutual Adjustment of Students and the School
To all students, the school offers a wide choice of courses and co-curricular activities. A significant
function of education is to help students identify and develop their potentialities. The counselor’s
role is to assist students to distribute their energies into the many learning opportunities available
to them. Every student needs help in planning his major course of study and pattern of co-curricular
activities.
Even those students who have chosen an appropriate educational program for themselves may
have problems that require help. A teacher may need to spend from one-fifth to one-third of his
time with a few pupils who require a great deal of help, which deprives the rest of the class from the
teacher’s full attention to their needs. The counselor, by helping these youngsters to resolve their
difficulties, frees the classroom teacher to use his time more efficiently.
Counselors, in working with individual students, know their personal problems and aspirations,
their talents and abilities, as well as the social pressures confronting them. Counselors, therefore,
can provide data that serve as a basis for curriculum development, and they can help curriculum

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