Types of Guidance - Educational, Vocational, Personal and Group guidance

Suresh Babu . G
Assistant Professor
CTE CPAS Paippad, Kottayam

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Types of Guidance
Educational Guidance
Vocational guidance
Personal guidance
Group guidance

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Educational Guidance
• It deals with educational problems head the needs of
students‘ problems head the needs of students‘
problems.
• Related to every aspect of education school/
colleges, curriculum, methods of instruction & other
curriculum of instruction & other curricular activities,
disciplines etc.
• It is the assistance given to the individual:-
(i) to understand his/her potentialities
(ii) have a clear cut idea of the different educational
opportunities and their educational opportunities and
their requirements
(iii) to make wise choices as regards to school, college :
course, curricular & extra curricular activities

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Definitions of Educational Guidance
• According to Brewer, educational guidance is a
conscious effort to assist in the intellectual
growth of an individual.
• Jones defines educational guidance as the
assistance given to the pupils in their choices
and adjustment s with relation to school,
curriculum, courses and school life.

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Objectives of educational guidance
 To assist the pupil to understand him/herself i.e. to
understand his/her potentialities, strength limitations.
 To help the child make educational plans consist with
his/her abilities, interests and goals
 To enable the student to know detail about the subject
and courses offered.
 To assist the student in making satisfactory progress in
various school/ college subjects.
 To help the child to adjust with the schools, its rules,
regulations, social life connected with it.
 To help the child in developing good study habits.
 To help the child to participate in out of class
educational activities in which he can develop
leadership and other social qualities.

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Need of providing Educational
Guidance to students
Need of checking the wastage and stagnation in
education
Need of realizing the aims and objectives of
education
The need of making
right educational choices
The need of proper
educational adjustment

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Aims of Educational guidance
• Help to ensure that choice of education and career will be of
greatest possible,
• Be targeted particularly at young people with special needs
for guidance in relation to choice of education, training and
career;
• Take into account the individual’s interests and personal
qualifications and skills, including informal competencies,
previous education, work experience, as well as the expected
need for skilled labour and self-employed businessmen;
• Contribute to limiting, as much as possible, the number of
dropouts and students changing from one education and
training programme to another;
• Contribute to improving the individual’s ability to seek and use
information, including IT-based information and guidance,
about choice of education, educational institution and career;
• The last objective is to raise the quality level guidance,
including an improvement in counsellors’ qualifications and
competencies

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Process of Educational Guidance
Collection of data
Diagnosis of the problem
Prognosis
Rendering guidance
Follow-up

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Skills developed in guidance
• Learning Skills.
• Personal Knowledge and
Management Skills.
• Interpersonal Knowledge
and Exploration of Opportunities.
• Essential Skills for Working and Learning.
• Personal Management.
• Exploration of Opportunities.
• Preparation for Transitions and Change.

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Stages of Educational Guidance
University
Higher
secondary school
Middle school
Primary school
Pre-Primary school

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Elementary Stage
• At the elementary stage
guidance programme must,
• Help the children to make good beginning, to
plan intelligently,
• To get the best out of their education and
prepare them for secondary schools.
• Educational guidance needs to be used in
diagnosing difficulties, in identifying the
special needs of children.

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Secondary Stage
• At the secondary stage educational guidance
should help the pupils
• To understand themselves better,
• To understand different aspects of the school,
• To select appropriate courses
• To get information about different educational
opportunities,
• To develop good study habits.
• The students should be helped
to be acquainted with the
vocational implications of
various school subjects.

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Tertiary Stage
• Educational guidance at the tertiary stages must
• Oriented students about purpose and scope of
higher studies and
• Helps them to stimulate their studies.
• Each college/ university must have a guidance
unit with due provision of guidance services.

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Role of teacher in educational guidance
 Give assistance to students in education
purpose
 Give necessary adjustment to curricular and
extra-curricular requirements.
 Arranging proper educational environment in
school.
 Create free environment.
 Give proper goal oriented
education.

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Vocational guidance
• A process of assisting the individual to choose an occupation,
prepare for it, enter upon it and progress in it.
• Concerned primarily with helping individuals make decisions
and choices involved in planning a future and building a
career.
• The purpose behind assisting the youth to choose, prepare,
enter and progress in vocation is the optimum growth of the
individual.
• Interpersonal process developed to assist individuals with
career problems development problems
Other names to it are:-
1. Vocational guidance
2. Occupational counselling
3. Vocational counselling

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Definitions - Vocational guidance
• According to Super , vocational guidance is the
process of helping the individual to adjust in
occupations, to make effective use of human
power and to facilities the economic development
of the society.
• International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines
vocational guidance as assistance given to an
individual in solving problems related to
occupational choice and progress with due regard
for the individual’s characteristics and their related
to occupational opportunity.

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Objectives of Vocational Guidance
 To assist students to acquire knowledge of the
characteristics, functions, duty requirements of
occupations in which they are interested.
 To enable students to get relevant information about
abilities and skills in terms of related qualifications and
identified occupations.
 To developing abilities to analyze occupational
information.
 To assist students in getting information about training
programmes
 To choice right type of job.
 To develop entrepreneurship
 qualities in students.

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Vocational Guidance services
The orientation services
Student inventory services
Career Information services
 Counselling services
 Group guidance
services
 Placement services
Research and
evaluation services

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Need (functions) of Vocational Guidance
 To assist the students to make the best possible
vocational choice.
 Provide information about occupational
opportunities.
 To understand the problems of unemployment and
its causes.
 To enter into the desired profession.
 To seeking self-employment
 To enable vocational adjustment.
 Efficient use of manpower and
resources.
 To achieve vocational goals

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Components of Vocational Guidance
Analysis of the individual
Occupational information
Consultation
Vocational counseling
Placement
Community Occupational Surveys and Follow-up
Studies.
Evaluation

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Career Conference
• Career conference is a conference in which
information regarding various aspects of
different occupations is disseminated to the
students.
• It covers about
1. Nature and importance of work
2. Conditions of work
3. Minimum qualifications necessary
for receiving training
4. Different aspects of training

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Organizing a career conference
• Duration of conference may be one day or more.
• In planning a conference, the school counselor
will seek the co-operation of both teachers and the
students.
• The students of the higher secondary classes and
their parents should be invited.
• Sufficient care should be given speak about the
problems connected with particular occupations.
• Should give vary clear
information
• Conference discussion
is essential

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Personal Guidance
• Personal guidance is an assistance given to
students to solve their emotional problem and to
help them control their emotions and feelings.
• It is an assistance given to an individual towards
a better adjustment in development of attitude
and behavior in all areas of life.
• It assists the child to adjust well with physical
and social environment and to solve all the
emotional and psychological problems.

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Definition - Personal Guidance
• According to Wilson, personal guidance is the
assistance given to an individual in his physical,
emotional, social, moral and spiritual development
and adjustment.
• Strang defines guidance as the assistance given to
an individual to solve his personal problems, such
as social and emotional adjustment, economic and
social relationships and problems connected
with his physical as well
as mental health.

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Objectives of Personal Guidance
 To help the individual in analyzing and
understanding his personal problems.
 To make the individual sensitive about his
environment and possibilities objectively.
 To enhance the adjustability of an individual.
 To understand personal complexity and causes.
 To develop understanding and insight into the
various life situations.
 To assist the individual to develop
socially desirable goals, recognize
his strength and limitations to
become enriched.

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Need for Personal Guidance
 Need of Personal Guidance
 Personal development
 Social adjustment
 To solve emotional problems
 Utilization of leisure time
 Physical development

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Process of Personal Guidance
 Collection of data
 Diagnosis of the problem
 Prognosis
 Rendering guidance
 Follow-up

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Group Guidance
Group guidance is considered to be an
approach aimed at providing helpful personal,
educational, or occupational information to
groups of individuals.
It occurs in a group setting in which one or more
guidance workers encounter students as a
group.
 It involves guiding the
individual in group situations.

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Definitions of Group Guidance
• Jones, group guidance is any group activity in
which the primary purpose is to assist each
individual in the group to solve his problems and
to make his adjustments.
• Crow and Crow consider group guidance as a
guidance service that is made available by
school personnel to large or small group of
pupils.

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Principles of Group Guidance
 Supplement to Counselling
 Principle of homogeneity
 Principle of expertise
 Common need problem based
 Principle of continuity

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Scope of Group Guidance
Related to educational
plans
Related to home and
adjustment
Related to job
finding

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Essentials of Group Guidance
 Rapport
 Acceptance of views shared by the group
 Careful listening and scrutiny of the group by the
guidance personnel
 Problem-solving attitude of the guidance
personnel
 Effective solution of the problem

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Group Guidance techniques
 Assemblies
 Career conferences
 Lectures/Talks
 Occupational surveys
 Orientation classes
 PTA meetings
 Group visit to work sites
 Work experience/Group activity
 Demonstration/Role plays

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Advantages of Group Guidance
• Collective and balanced judgement is possible
• Multiplies contacts with persons
having common problems
• Focuses freedom of expression
• Prepares way to individual counselling
• Save Time
• Opportunities to study individual’s behaviour in
group situation

Difference between Individual
and Group Guidance
Individual Guidance
 To help individual in
personal problems
 It enhances adjustment of
individual student
 To develop insight in the
various life situation
Group Guidance
 Solving common problems
of students
 Balanced judgment of
group
 Stress to personal
responsibilities in group

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