THE ESSENTIAL GUIDANCE SERVICES
Guidance and Counseling in Schoolsby Linda Ambida-Cinco, Ph.D.
Prepared by:Ma. Teresa C. Sarenas
BEED SPED 3
Guidance Services
A group of services to individuals to
assist them in securing knowledge and
skills needed in making plans and
services and in interpreting life.
I. Individual Inventory Service
A service that provides a synthesis of information
about individuals which can be used to gain
understanding of themselves as persons – their
potentials and liabilities, abilities, interests, and needs.
Covers the collection, organization, interpretation and
use of data about pupils or students.
Principles:
1. The collection of data about the learners should
be started from the time they begin schooling.
2. Records should grow with the learners as they
progress in their studies.
3. Records should be cumulative and inclusive.
4. Records should be unbiased, objective,
and unopinionated.
5. The data contained in the inventory
should be properly interpreted, well-
synthesized, and carefully used for the
benefit of the child.
6. Only the proper tools, techniques, and
instruments should be used in the gathering
of the necessary information.
7. Records should be systematically kept and
conveniently filed and should be accessible to
the guidance counselor, the principal, and to
the teachers who may, from time to time,
make good use of the information found
therein.
Information about the learner that are included in the inventory:
1. Individual identification data2. The cumulative records3. Test records
a. Mental Ability Testsb. Achievement Tests
Readiness or progressive tests Diagnostic achievement tests
c. Aptitude Tests Interest Inventories Personality inventories
Non-Test Techniques or Self-Evaluation Reports
Autobiographies
Rating Scales
Pupil-data questionnaires
Interview
II. The Information Service
This service makes available to
learners certain kinds of information
not ordinarily provided through the
instructional program or during the
regular period of instruction.
Classification of Information Available to the
Learners in a program of Guidance Services
A. Educational InformationB. Social InformationC. Occupational Information
A. Educational Information
This is a valid and usable data about all
types of present and probable future
educational or training opportunities and
requirements, including curricular and
co-curricular offerings, requirements for
entrance, and conditions and problems
of pupil/student life.
Educational Information Needs of Learners
1. Information about the school
2. Information about co-curricular
activities
3. Other information
Purposes of Educational Information
It should help the children to adjust to
the new world of school.
Even during the elementary grades, the
child should begin to learn about the
whole complicated cultural pattern of
one’s education.
At the early level, the personnel services
office may become involved with the
parents as well as children in the
discussion of information regarding the
operation of the school.
In grade 6, the children should be given a
picture of what lies ahead in the high
school, if they go into one.
At the high school level, the internal type of
info will deal more with the various extra-
curricular activities of the school, and some
students may experience for the 1st time the
bitterness of not getting into what they want.
At the high school level, the major form of
educational information will be that which
deals with the post high school education
B. Social Information
It is the valid and usable data about the
opportunities and influences of the
human being which will help learners to
understand themselves better and to
improve their relations with others.
Purposes of Social Information
To simply help the learners develop a
greater understanding of themselves
and their relations with others. It is the
psychological aspect of their
educational experience.
C. Occupational Information
Valid and usable data about positions, jobs, and occupations, including duties, requirements for entrance , conditions for work, rewards offered, advancement pattern, existing and predicted supply of and demand for workers, and sources for further information.
Purposes of Occupational Information
It will be an important part of the learners’
education and will help them develop a general
understanding about the world of work.
Education is concerned with the development of
attitudes, and an important part of one’s set of
attitudes are those relating to occupations, and
the people who hold them.
The learners can be helped if they
come to understand that there are
many reasons for working, and that
money is only one of them.
During these early years, the learners
can be presented with ideas which
suggest that there are certain common
factors that make a job well done or
poorly done.
The learners can be made to
understand that among tens of
thousands of occupations, there are
scores that can be equated with an
individual’s education, intelligence,
and interests. Individuals must be
able to relate their occupation to
their total self.
III. The Placement Service
Placement- the satisfactory
adjustment of the individual to the
next situation whether in school or
on the job. (John Ryan & Franklin
Zeran)
Basic Underlying Principles:
1. Placement is an important and integral part of the counseling program.
2. Every student should receive the maximum education suitable to his/her interest and abilities before full time occupational placement is considered.
3. Service to the students according to their individual needs should be the principal criterion for placement.
4. Placement made in accordance with the students’ interests and abilities often lead to a permanent vocational choice.
Kinds of Placement
1. Educational placement in college
2. Vocational Placement
IV. The Follow-Up Service
Intended to secure information about
former students, and to provide
continuing services for students after
they leave school.
Benefits of Follow-Up:
A. In-school follow-up Helps students make good adjustments. It diminishes the number of drop-outs.
B. Out-of-school follow-up It will help administrators & curriculum
makers to better adjust instructional offerings to the needs of the students.
It will serve to encourage students by letting them know that their school is following their careers and is concerned with their success in their chosen life work.
V. The Counseling Service
Counseling
- is the core of the guidance program
- a form of intervention that leads to a more effective behavior.
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