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Guidance and Counseling

Notes Activities
(a) Conducting various games like “get-acquainted” games where the student can talk about
themselves, such as their interest, hobbies, etc.
(b) Arranging group activities, where in the students are provided opportunites to interact with
each other and exhibit their abilities.

One should also note that the orientation services are not only restricted to the students,
but they can also be extended for the parents and towards the community.

4.2.2 Pupil Inventory Service
Apart from knowing the general characteristics of students, it is also very essential to identify the
specific abilities predominent among the students, before a counselor or career teacher assists them.
Since, without identifying the pupils aptitudes and interests, one cannot determine what to expect
from them and what they are capable of doing. The various aspects that has to be assessed before
one guides a student are his aptitude, achievement, interests, attitudes, socio-economic status, family
background etc. The pupil inventory service helps in the recording and maintaining of these data.
These records can be prepared by the collaborative effort of the teacher, counselor and career teacher
through various techniques. Till now, you are familiar with the techniques as testing and non-
testing techniques, and observation, anecdotals, rating scales, sociometry and interview are some of
the well-known non-testing techniques. The testing techniques are the verbal tests, non-verbal tests,
performance tests, projective techniques and the personality tests. These tests must be administered
by the counselor or any professionalised personnel. However, assistance from a teacher is must for
maintaining the records of students by using some of these techniques. A teacher could give details
of certain behaviour of students by observing them in the classroom situations and making their
records. These incidents could be accumulated in the form of anecdotal records.
Objectives of pupil inventory service
(i) to identify the various abilities of the students by administration of various tests; and

(ii) maintain various records concerned to each students and to update them periodically.
The type of data generally collected are personal, family data, psychological data, achievement,
health data, etc. This obtained data helps a counselor and career teacher in their counseling process
and career guidance programme respectively.
4.2.3 Occupational Information Service
This is a service which can be provided by the integrated effort of a teacher, counselor and a career
teacher. The main objective of the service is to provide the students information about the educational
opportunities in various levels, related training programmes conducted and occupations available.
This helps the students to be aware of the options open to him with respect to a particular course or
subject in any of the above areas. Further the student is also exposed to the world of work, nature
and pattern of work and the skills required for performing the work.
The objectives of information service are to :
(i) create an awareness of the necessary occupational and educational information;
(ii) develop a broad and realistic view of the various educational, training and occupational
opportunities; and
(iii) help the student obtain and interpret the information he/she needs in making specific plans
for his/her future career.

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