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Guidance and Counseling

Notes • Counseling in the elementary school is the responsibility of every member of the school team.
Under the leadership of the principal the team constantly evaluates its objectives and plans for
more effective guidance services.
• The first challenge comes from the body. The growth spurt in a brief span of time changes the
appearance and body-proportions. The young man/woman must learn to accept his/her new
body image and this could cause considerable embarrassment.
• The student is perhaps away from his home and feels exposed in the new environment. Most
students exhibit vague and agitated reactions usually referred to as anxiety reactions. Students’
difficulties and problems can be vastly helped by the sympathetic attitudes of teachers. The
students would feel reassured if their problems were recognized and accepted as legitimate.
• The school/college setting creates additional problem situations, such as :
1. The student who complains about his inability to study.
2. The student who is nervous and is unable to speak in class.
3. The student who is aloof and cannot make friends.
• Adolescents are in a Period of Change: The period represented by students in grades 7 to 12
is that of adolescence, when the transition from childhood to adulthood takes place.
• The Secondary school years for children are co-terminous with their early adolescence and
post-puberty years. The need for helping young boys and girls deal with problems of growing
up is great.
• The guidance needs of students in the secondary school are basically not very different from
those in any other part of the educational system.
• Soon after starting secondary school some children will begin to reach the place where further
schooling of the kind available may not be desirable because each year brings them diminishing
returns.
• Although the learning problems encountered in the secondary school are not always new,
many now become of increasing importance.

19.11 Keywords

Counseling : A professional advice about a problem.
Adolescence : The time in a person’s life when he or she develops from a child into an adult
Enthusiastic : Feeling or showing a lot of excitement and interest about somebody/something.
Approach : A way of dealing with somebody/something.

19.12 Review Questions

1. Write a short note on the importance of Counseling in Elementary schools.
2. Explain the nature of the child in elementary schools
3. Explain the role of the counselor in respect of the pupils and teachers of elementary schools in
providing effective counseling
4. Discuss the nature of secondary school student which make counseling very important for his
proper development and social adjustment
Answers : Self Assessment
1. (i) Muscular growth, Coordination (ii) In service education
(iii) Counselor
2. (i) T (ii) F (iii)F (iv)T

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