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Unit 9: Personal Guidance at School Level

(ii) Self-inventory services : This type of service is concerned with aiding the individuals to Notes
obtain equally needed information pertaining to their ability, aptitude, limitation and
personality characteristics, their personal assets and liabilities.
(iii) Personal data collecting services : The purpose of this service to provide the basis for the
effective counseling.
(iv) Counselling services : This service is concerned with helping the individuals to weigh and
evaluate personal assets and liabilities in relation to the opportunity and requirements of
education and occupations that interest them.
(v) Preparatory services : This service is based on the assumption that choice of course and
occupations have been reached, at least tentatively.
• The school has to take the responsibility of making the children feel at home and not become
anxious and withdrawn. The other children in the school are strangers to the new entrant and
it is up to the teachers to integrate the newcomers into the group. They need some kind of
reassurance. Teaching of subject matter at this stage is not as important as promotion of social
and emotional maturity in children.
• Early guidance of the child helps him adjust to new situations and develops the ability to face
problems and resolve them.
• Many years of adjustment lie ahead of the child to grow and develop.
• Going to school involves the important problem of ‘readiness to learn’. This apart, two other
equally important factors of vital concern for the school are social and emotional maturity.
• Guidance in the elementary school can best be implemented if the developmental sequence of
the children is understood. To state them simply, they are :
1. Children are both similar and different
2. Each individual child grows according to his own time schedule
3. Growth takes time, it can be encouraged but never forced
• The pupils enter the secondary school around 10+ years of age. Their physical and motor
development is, by this time, generally complete. However, the other aspects, namely social,
emotional, mental and moral, still need to develop. It is during these years that the pupils
enter the crucial period of adolescence.
• There are atleast two other factors that need to be considered :
1. At the secondary-school stage the pupils have to make academic choice that ultimately
determines their vocational future.
2. The pupil is becoming sexually mature.
• During adolescence another dimension of important psychological change is the development
of attitudes and interests. As young individuals, most pupils exhibit similar interests but during
adolescence and later, there are changes in the mental and social characteristics, leading to
different attitudes toward parents, school, teachers, peers and authorities.
• Some of the aims of Personal guidance are to help the pupil :
1. Choose the curriculum which suits his/her abilities, interests and aspirations or goa1s
optimally.
2. Acquire efficient study habits and practices which would enable him/her to achieve the
desirable levels of academic success.
3. Develop social interests and talents outside the academic field since the demands of life are
myriad and confusing.

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