Unit II. b Guidance Services that a teacher Can Provide by: Cherly A. Bedua
The orientation service is provided to the students who are new comers and those who go to new class or new course in the school set up. Guidance Service # 1. Orientation Service:
Guidance Service # 2. Individual Inventory Service: Individual inventory service is an important type of guidance service which may be recognized often as “pupil’s” inventory service. It is very much essential for student as it assists to know the student “himself” at the time of taking any decisions so far, his educational courses and careers are concerned.
The following steps should be followed at the time of organization of individual inventory service in the school: 1. Data collection a. General data b. Family data c. Physical data d. Academic data e. Social data
f. Data about co- curricular activities g. Psychological data h. Data regarding entertainment 2. Maintenance of data 3. Use of Data 4. Self Inventory Service
Guidance Service # 3. Information Service: Information actually plays a vital role in each and every guidance programme . Because it assists students to take suitable decisions in case of planning educational career and vocational career. At the same time, it is helpful to students to adjust well in different social situations including school situation and occupational situation.
The essential information for planning the educational and vocational career is collected from various sources such as: (1) Teachers (2) Parents (3) School guidance personnel or Counsellor (4) Intimate friends and mates (5) News papers and different useful journals (6) Other mass media such as Radio and T.V.
Types of Information: There are three categories of information’s which are very much essential for good guidance service such as: ( i ) Educational information (ii) Occupational information (iii) Personal-Social information.
According to Norris and others “Educational information is valid and usable data about all types of probable future educational or training opportunities and requirements, including curricular and co-curricular offerings, requirements for entrance and condition and problem of student life. Educational information service is not only useful for students but also it is essential for teachers, parents, and counsellors to guide the students in this regard properly.
Guidance Service # 4. Counselling Service: As an integral part of guidance programme , counselling service is not a recent idea and service having wide applications in different social set up such as family, school, medical, other counselling centers etc. counselling service may be provided by parents to children in the family, by teachers to students in school, by doctors to patients in medical and so on to overcome the problems what generally occur in their lives.
Counselling is defined as “Consultation, mutual interchange of opinions, deliberating together.”
Types of Counselling Service: Counselling is of mainly three types on the basis of its approaches such as: Directive Counselling Non Directive Counselling Eclectic Counselling
1. Directive Counselling ►is a process where counsellor plays a major role as the leader of the counselling situation. Due to this cause directive counselling is considered and recognized as counsellor centered counselling . The credit goes to Williamson and Darley as they coined new terminology namely clinical counselling in the place of counsellor centered counselling. In this counselling service counsellor conducts the interview with the counselee to know the problem of the student.
2. Non-directive Counselling ► Non-directive counselling is based on the Carl R. Rogerian self- theory throughout the interview which is otherwise known as counselee centered counselling . Because in this type of counselling the counselee occupies an important place and plays significant role in the process. Of course counselee develops insight for the solution of problem with the help of the counsellor whose role is passive.
3. Eclectic Counselling ► Eclectic counselling is not extreme form of counselling like directing counselling and non-directive counselling. In directive counselling counsellor plays a dominant role and contrary to this in non-directive counselling counselee commands precious place being more active than counsellor. But eclectic counselling is based on principles taken from both the aforesaid counselling.
In this type of counselling counsellor is neither too active and nor too passive and the same principle is true to counselee also. The counsellor tries to adopt his methods according to needs of the counselee and motivates the counselee to solve his own problems after careful observation and analysis of personality and needs of the individual.
Guidance Service # 5. Placement Service: Like other guidance services, placement service is a kind of guidance service which is especially carried on by teachers on guidance workers to assist students to find out his own place in the educational setting on occupational world considering his abilities, interests, skills, aptitudes and attitudes.
According to H.B. English and A.C. English the term placement refers to “the assigning of a worker to the job for which he is judged best fitted.” Further same has been stressed that in terms of placement “fitness includes the individual’s satisfaction as well as his ability in relation to the job.”
Guidance Service # 6. Referral Service: The referral service is meant for the students who are not subject to be guided and counselled by the teachers or guidance workers in a normal group. This referral service is arranged for the purpose of specialized help. In this special cases student is advised by teachers and counsellors to go for taking special help from specialized person or agency. Because the student needs specialized help and much care to overcome the problems.
Guidance Service # 7. Remedial Service: Like referral service, the remedial service is a kind of specialized service which is meant for exceptional children such as student having speech defects, hard of hearing, incapable of reading and developing study habits etc. These exceptional children are not normal children those who will read, think and act properly. So that they need special treatment to overcome these handicaps.
Guidance Service # 8. Follow-Up Service: Follow-up service is considered as an important guidance service which is intended to evaluate and ascertain the student’s progress and performance in the context of educational career and activities and progress in the job placement. It is not only the main task of teacher and guidance worker to provide educational placement and job placement through placement service but also it is most important concern is to evaluate the performance and success in the respective field.
Guidance Service # 9. Research Service: Research service occupies an important place in guidance service which is needed highly in the guidance process for the following reasons: (i) The research service helps guidance personnel for the purpose of a better understanding of students, his school activities and his difficulties.
(ii) The research service gives chance to know about available school resources. (iii) The research service helps guidance personnel to evaluate the achievement of the students in the context of their goals. (iv) The research service helps guidance personnel to enrich the curriculum on the basis of findings of the studies. (v) The research service helps guidance personnel to redirect and re-orient the various other services which are already provided.
(vi)The research service is meant to examine and study the personnel those who are involved in the school guidance program. (vii) The research service is meant to examine the techniques of guidance program which are used by guidance personnel to accelerate the guidance service. (viii) The research service provides a basis for guidance development program in the school. (ix) The research service helps guidance personnel to develop new methods and techniques of guidance.
Guidance Service # 10. Evaluation Service: The evaluation process is an essential part of the process of guidance which is continuous in nature and done from time to time. Because it completes the entire process of guidance provided in the school.
It is needed to evaluate following considerations such as: ( i ) Use and application of collected information’s to continue activities to find its effectiveness. (ii) How far guidance services satisfy the needs and the student’s efficiency. (iii) To what extent the time consumed for guidance service is right. (iv) To what extent the money spent for guidance service is right. (v) How far guidance personnel involved in the guidance programme have done their work.