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Unit 7: Organizing Guidance Services at School and College Level

7.2.1 Functions or Responsibilities or Roles of Headmasters in School Notes
Guidance Programme
In any school, the place of the headmaster or principal is main. He is head of the institute. The
whole working of the school or a teaching institute depends on the abilities, insight and
administrative capacity of the headmaster. Since the guidance has been considered as a part of
education, the headmaster should also be loaded with the responsibility of guidance programme.
In this field too, the headmaster should be assigned leaders.
(i) The responsibility of providing leadership to the guidance programme lies with the
headmaster. In this connection, his role can be very important.
(ii) The headmaster can help at least the teachers of his own school regarding the guidance
programme and in understanding various problems.
(iii) It is the important responsibility of the headmaster to distribute the duties to the guidance
workers according to their abilities and capacities and depute them needfully.
(iv) The supervision of guidance process is the first step towards the success of guidance process.
(v) The headmaster should spare sufficient time for the guidance work. Only then this
programme will gain success. Once a week guidance programme is not sufficient. This may
reduce confidence of the pupils towards guidance programme.
(vi) The headmaster has financial powers. Hence, it is his responsibillity to make financial
provision for guidance programme.
(vii) It is also the duty of the headmaster to arrange proper building for the counseling service.
(viii) The headmaster should help the pupils by evaluating the effects or results of the guidance
programme with the help of his fellow teachers.
(ix) It is the main part of teacher’s role to make the guardians and parents of the pupils familiar
with the guidance programme.
(x) It is the duty of the teacher to constitute a guidance committee in the school. He should be
the head the committee. All the members of the committee decide the guidance activities.
The selection of the members of the committee should be made very carefully.
(xi) The headmaster should organize in-service education in order to provide training of guidance
work to the teachers. For this, able and expert persons associated with this task should be
invited. In schools too, part-time courses can be started.
(xii) It is the responsibility It is the responsibility of the headmaster to make all types of facilities
available for the guidance programme, such as, sufficient furniture, guidance office, sufficient
funds to purchase all types of materials.
(xiii) It is the duty of the headmaster to check the teaching-work-load of the teachers before
assigning them additional work of guidance. The whom the guidance work has been
assigned, their teaching work-load should be reduced.
(xiv) It is the moral duty of the head master that he should explain the guidance services to the
school and the society.
(xv) The headmaster should re-evaluate and re-determine the guidance services from them to
time. He can hand over this duty to the guidance committee. The committee should make
recommendations for the reforms or modifications in the programme. The execution of the
recommendation should be the duty of the headmaster.
(xvi) The headmaster can modify this programme in consultation with the pupils and their
guardians.
(xvii) The headmaster should manage the literature related to the guidance and arrange its proper
distribution.

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