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Guidance and Counseling

Notes (iii) ...................... is concerned with aiding the individuals to make necessary or desirable
readjustment after entering in their education and occupation.
(iv) The ...................... has the basic responsibility to develop fundamental skills in children.

9.8 Summary
• Personal guidance refers to the help given to an individual towards a better adjustment in the
development of attitudes and behaviours in all areas of life. It assists the child to adjust well
with physical and social environment and to solve all the emotional and psychological problems.
• When asked about pupil needs staff focused on the provision made at each school stage and
guidance teachers’ duties rather than directly on pupils’ needs. Although staff identified the
same sorts of needs or provision at the various school stages.
• The most fundamental pupil need identified was for individual attention and to have a consistent
relationship with a teacher who knew them. Staff identified a range of needs at each school
stage.
• On the whole, guidance provision in the project schools was based on a generalised model of
pupil needs.
• Guiding Backward Students: After identifying the backward children, you should first decide
one of the three possible ways for the education of backward children :
(i) Whether they should be given education in a regular class, or
(ii) They should be taught a separate class within the same school, or
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Students face a lot of problems both in school and at home. These problems cannot be solved
effectively by untrained and unqualified persons. Schools are in a strategic position where
appropriate guidance can be given in an organised and systematic manner. • The purpose to
be achieved; • The functions to be served; • The allocation of responsibilities; • Methods of
evaluation of the programme.
• Let us discuss each type of guidance services in brief.
(i) Information services : This service is concerned with aiding the individual to obtain needed
information concerning education and occupation. For example information needed to choose
a career for engineering.

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