THE GUIDANCE SERVICES

Scope, Nature and Functions of Guidance Services

Basic Guidance Services

Report by: Everly Ann Mata and Yolangeli Mari Pineda

GUIDANCE

•Connote both systematic or unsystematic and informal means toward assisting individual

GUIDANCE SERVICES

• Includes systematic and organized procedure

and facilities toward assisting individual.

• As a group of services given to individuals to

assist them in securing knowledge and skills

needed in making plans and devices, and in

interpreting life. It includes tools and facilities

in discharging its services to individuals.

• Is an organized set of specialized services

established as integral part of school

environment designed to promote the

development of the students and assist

them toward a realization of sound and

wholesome adjustment and maximum

accomplishments commensurate with their

potentials.

A. SCOPE OF GUIDANCE

1. Services rendered to an individual.

2. Services to staff members.

3. Services pertaining to evaluation of

service.

B. CHARCTERISTICS OF GUIDANCE SERVICES

1. It is an integral part of school system.

2. It is organized; it has structure, system

and personnel.

3. It is more of a preventive than curative.

4. It promotes educational objectives.

5. It adheres to the principle that the

individual/students is the center of all

efforts.

6. It promotes student development.

C. FUNCTIONS OF THE GUIDANCE SERVICES

1. To improve self-understanding.

2. To increase student understanding of self in

relation to others.

3. To emphasize relationships between academic

pursuits and personal development.

4. To promote better understanding of the teacher

to achieve such as an important role in relating

to life, the students should have understanding.

5. To contribute to feeling of security.

6. To supplement teachers’ effort in assisting children with problems.

Steps which teachers can take:

a. Maintain an attitude of sympathy.b. Make an effort to understand

these children and convey a feeling of

genuine understanding.

c. Provide counseling in appropriate cases.

d. Make referrals to the counselor.e. Maintain contact with home, as

appropriate.f. Provide for the needs of an

individual students within instructional setting.g. Provide personal attention incident

to classroom and other activities.

7. To provide for the accomplishment and

attainment of long range goals.

8. To accumulate and interpret important

information.

A. INFORMATION SERVICE

The function of the Information Service

is to make available to pupils or students

certain kind of information not ordinarily

provide through the instructional program or

during the regular period of instruction.

The service is classified into 3. These are:1. Occupational Information2. Educational Information3. Social Information

Objectives of the Information Service

1. To develop a broad and realistic view of life’s opportunities and problems at all levels of training.

2. To create an awareness of the need and an active desire for accurate and valid occupational, educational and personal social information.

3. To provide wide understanding of the wide scope of educational, occupational and social activities in terms of broad categories of related activities.

4. To assist in the mastery of the techniques of obtaining and interpreting information for progressive self- defectiveness.

5. To promote attitudes and habits that will assist in the making of choices and adjustments productive of personal satisfaction.

6. To provide assistance in narrowing choices progressively to specific activities which are appropriate to aptitudes, abilities, and interests and to the proximity of definite decisions.

Tools used in the attainments of it’s objectives:

a.Meetings/Orientation programb.Use of bulletin board/brochures.c.Research Datad.School Campaign

B. FOLLOW-UP SERVICE

An integral part of guidance services is the follow-up.

It is concerned with what happens to students while in school or after they have left schools.

Purpose of Follow-up Service

1. To ascertain the progress and status of students within the various classrooms, courses and curricular areas.

2. To gain data which may identify weakness in the various phases of the school progress.

3. To learn how former graduates are processing.

4. To evaluate the effectiveness of the school’s placement activity.

5. To learn why pupils leave before graduation.

6. To discover grade levels at which most dropouts occur.

7. To obtain opinions concerning needed modification of the curriculum in the light of the experiences of former pupils.

Tools Used in the Follow-up Service

1. Conducting surveys.2. Use of telephone.3. The use of follow up letters.

C. PLACEMENT SERVICE

Placement is a service within the guidance program which is designed to assist students in the selection of suitable courses or curricula, extra-class activities and part-time or full-time employment or appropriate career choices and skills.

Types of Placement Service

1. Educational placement2. Occupational placement3. Job placement

D. COUNSELING SERVICE

It implies planned provision for serving unique need of pupils through the person to person relationship of counselor and counselee.

Functions of Counseling Service

1. Study the real life environment.2. Define the problem situation.3. Establish the parameter of the program.4. Design a counseling model.5. Pilot test model.6. Introduce the system.7. Operate the system.8. Evaluate the system.9. Eliminate the system.

Basic Facts of Counseling1. The process involves a two-way relationship

and responsibility.2. Counseling service should be extended to all

students in the schools and the former pupils who have graduated or who have left schools.

3. Some staff members should be trained to work with different groups of students on various phases of the guidance program including the counseling service.

4. The need of the counselee gives rise to the development of the counseling situation which aimed at the satisfaction of those needs.

5. The counseling passes through 3 stages:

a. Exploratory stageb. Interpretative stagec. Adjustment stage

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