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Unit 6: Educational and Vocational Guidance

7. Assisting students in collecting information about different courses, curricula, schools, Notes
training school, vocational schools. These objectives can be achieved through school’s
educational information services, group guidance classes, group counseling and individual
counseling.
8. Assisting students in the selection of courses, curriculums, extracurricular activities, best
suited to their abilities, interests, aptitudes and, personality characteristics.
9. Selecting students in the selection of books and methods of study.
10. Assisting students through group guidance and group counseling to help remove their
difficulties in learning.
11. Assisting students in developing work and study habits that enable then achieve satisfactory
success in studies.
12. Assisting students in trying out courses and exploratory courses in order to gain an insight
into learning areas that still lie ahead.
13. Assisting students in participating in cocurricular activities, group work, social service
activities so that qualities of leadership my be developed.
14. Assisting students in finding out the requirements of entrance to a college or to a vocational
school of one’s choice.
15. Assisting past students in adjusting themselves to the new environment and new social life.
16. Assisting students who are about to leave the school, in ascertaining the possibility and
desirability of further schooling.

6.6 Functions of Educational Guidance

The functions of educational guidance at primary stage are :
(1) Helping the Child in Making a Satisfactory Transition from Home to School : When the
child enters a school, he faces a novel situation. In his home he is free to do as he likes. In
the school he find life regimented. For some time he finds it even difficult to adjust. If he is
unable to adjust, he gets troubled. At this stage he needs assistance.
(2) Helping the Student in Solving Difficulties in Learning : When the child has become adjusted
to school life, he may face difficulties in learning basic educational skills. Children in
primary classes face failures because their difficulties in reading or in arithmetical skills are
not solved in time. Educational guidance at this primary stage helps a lot to make such
adjustments.
(3) Helping Potential Drop-outs to Stay in Schools : Pupils in primary classes drop out very
often because they are unable to adjust there. The instructional methods may be defective.
The school learning may be uninteresting. The school environment may not be conducive
to their growth. The guidance worker tries to analyse the causes of the malady and checks
pupils from dropping out. This saves stagnation and wastage also.
(4) Helping Students Make Plans for Future : Pupils at the end of the Higher Primary stage
being to think of making educational or vocational plans. Guidance helps them in making
a proper choice by finding out their I. Q’s, interest and behaviour patterns.
The responsibility of providing guidance to pupils and advice to parents will lie on the
shoulders of teachers and headmasters. Hence a competent person trained in guidance is
appointed in each primary school, teachers alone programme for primary school teachers
may arranged in training colleges. The areas of training may be simple diagnostic testing in
arithmetic and regional languages, testing of intelligence, principles of guidance, mental
hygiene and occupational orientation. Till the teachers do not become guidance oriented
nothing can come out of launching any guidance programme in a primary school in our
country at present.

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