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Unit 4: Guidance Services: Concept and Importance

• Post-admission Orientation : This service can be provided throughout the year. It helps the teacher Notes
in determining the abilities of students and there by adopt their teaching styles and activities
according to the student needs.
• Activities: (a) Conduct various games like “get-acquainted” games where the student can talk
about themselves, such as their interest, hobbies, etc.; (b) Arrange group activities, where in
the students are provided opportunites to interact with each other and exhibit their abilities.
• 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.
• 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.
• Counseling Service: This service is considered to as be the most fundamental part of the guidance
process. The purpose of it is to assist the students in the process of all round development. It
provides an opportunity to the individual to discuss their plans and problems with a
professional or counselor in a conductive environment.

• Placement Service: The placement service makes an effort to help those students, secure
employment, who are either in school or those after they leave school. The school provides
certain facilities through which the employment needs of the students are met either through
special placement personnel or by integration services of the other guidance personnel.
• Follow-up Service: A guidance worker who does not assess the progress made by his/her student
is like the physician who does not verify whether his/her patient has recovered or not; Here,
it becomes very essential in a guidance programme to learn the nature and extent of progress
of the student even after he leaves the school.
• Purpose of this Service: (i) It draws upon information from the former students regarding the
extent of influence or effectiveness of the school guidance programme; (ii) Based on the feedback
obtained, make relevant changes in the school guidance programme.
• A good quality-of-life for every people includes good housing, health service social network,
practical coping skills, etc.

• Guidance services is needed wherever there are problems. The need and importance of guidance
are as follows.
• Self understanding and self direction : Guidance helps in understanding one’s strength,
limitations and other resources. Guidance helps individual to develop ability to solve problems
and take decisions.
• Optimum development of individual; Solving different problem of the individual; Academic
growth and development.
• Different agencies i.e. government and private at international, national and regional level
have been doing significant works in the area of guidance.
• International Level: International Association of Educational and Vocational Guidance (IAEVG)
is a worldwide guidance and counseling Organization, whose mission is to promote the
development and quality of educational and vocational guidance.
• The objectives of the organization are as follows:
(i) To promote communication among persons and organizations active in educational and
vocational guidance.

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