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Guidance Services

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Prayer:

Lord, may we ask for your blessing


and divine providence. May my
students retain the invaluable
knowledge and learning experiences
that they derive from our on-line
class.

This we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.


Guidance Services
Guidance Service – it is a service wherein
competent staff in the Guidance and
Testing Office as well as trained peer
counselors assist students to better
understand themselves and their
environment.
Guidance Services Provided
to Students in School
1. Orientation Service

 The orientation service is provided to the students those who are


new comers and those who go to new class or new course in the
school set up.

 The orientation service is meant for students to enable them to know


school courses, rules, regulations, different facilities given to the
students by school and to know the clear image of the school. On the
same line school also keeps record of the students about their bio-
data including identification, socio- economic background,
capacities and abilities, interest for courses etc.
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. Really the student proceeds in his educational
set-up as he has made proper choice regarding concerned
subject or courses according to his own abilities, interests,
aptitudes, attitudes and skills. The adequate and accurate
data are collected for the same purpose.
3. Information Service

Information actually plays a vital role in each and


every guidance program. Because it assists students to
take suitable decisions in case of educational planning
and 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.
4. Counselling Service

 In the ever changing society, the need of counselling service is highly


felt to find out the solutions towards innumerable problems such as
problem of study habits, preparing for examination, inadequate
participation in school curricular and co-curricular activities, adjusting
with family members and parents, behavioural problems, health
problems, economic problems, problem of dealings, manners and
morals, problems in the context of utilization of leisure hours, problems
relating to under achievement, absence and dropping out of school
college and other related educational or training centre, material
problems etc.
 To attain this goal counselling service is initiated
by counsellor for the purpose solving the problems
of counselee. Thus counselling service is basically
meant for the betterment and welfare of the
students so called counselee and the service is
offered by the counsellor which cites a picture of
their better relationship between them. 
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.

 Educational and voca­tional guidance enable student to have a right


choice in case of educational courses, vocational courses and
trainings. Both type of guidance assist student in the placement of
good job and meant to provide maximum satisfaction out of his
placement.
6. Referral Service

 The referral service is meant for the students those 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.

 The teacher and guidance worker recommend and refer the student to
go for better guidance service through specialized person or agency
taking student’s development into account. But it is not only business
of teacher or guidance worker to refer student but also to follow-up
him to know about his progress *so far the purpose of referring is
concerned.
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.

 For this reason teachers and counsellors make arrangement for the
remedial help for these exceptional children. It is generally offered in
the school with much care. That is why almost all students get benefit
by certain training like training meant for developing study skill.
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.
9. Research Service

 The research service helps guidance personnel for


the purpose of a better understanding of students,
his school activities and his difficulties. It helps
guidance personnel to evaluate the achievement of
the students in the context of their goals. The
research service helps guidance personnel to enrich
the curriculum on the basis of findings of the
studies.
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:

a.Use and application of collected information’s to continue activities to


find its effectiveness.
b.How far guidance services satisfy the needs and the student’s efficiency.
c. To what extent the time consumed for guidance service is right.
d.To what extent the money spent for guidance service is right.
e. How far guidance personnel involved in the guidance programme have
done their work.

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