The Types of Guidance services provided in a school Guidance Cell

1. SERVICES IN
GUIDANCE
CORNER OF A
SCHOOL

2. Orientation Services
 It assists new students to know the information’s about school, its history
and traditions, its rules and regulations, its strength and weaknesses,
facilities available for them etc.
 (ii) It helps students to adjust with school situations and enables
students to develop academic standard, personal qualities, high moral
values as well as ethical standards from rich experiences of the school.
 It assists students to achieve success in academic life by learning to
study carefully, developing interest in study, taking examinations and notes
sincerely and utilizing time properly.
 (iv) It helps students to know the almost all useful information’s
regarding School Infra Facilities such as physical plant, library, hostels,
class-rooms, laboratories, workshops, gardens, play grounds, different
teaching aids and other facilities.
 (v) It assists students to provide remedial facilities reading, language
programme, projects and clubs and different financial help by schools.
 (vi) It assists students to develop social adjustment abilities, citizenship
education, well adjustment in different school activities and facilities, with
different members of school and finally it assists to develop an idea and
feeling among students that is a self directed, intellectually oriented
experience.

3. Individual Inventory
Service
The individual or student’s information is needed to
assist the student to know the clear picture of
his abilities, interests, aptitudes, skills,
personality characteristics, achievement
standard, level of aspiration and his physical
health status as well as his mental capacities.
Steps:
 Data Collection
 Data Maintenance
 Data Use
 Assisting in Choices/ Decisions.

4. Occupational Information
Services
 To identify the choice available among the
multifarious vocations opened to them.
 (ii) To evaluate their self-perception of activities
and interests against actual occupational needs.
 (iii) To develop self awareness and self-
confidence in individual about various
occupations.
Types of Information:
 (i) Educational information
 (ii) Occupational information
 (iii) Personal-Social information.

5. Counseling Service:
Objectives
 The client’s realistic acceptance of his own capacities,
motivations and self attitudes,
 The client’s achievement of a reasonable harmony
with his social, economic and vocational environment
and
 Society’s acceptance of individual differences and
their implications for community employment and
marriage relations.
Types of Counseling:
 Directive Counseling
 Non-directive Counseling
 Eclectic Counseling

6. Placement Services
Elements:
 Fitness for the job which implies the ability, skills,
interests, aptitude and capacity of the individual
on student in the context of his job placement.
 Satisfaction of the individual which implies the
student’s placement in a job should be better
selected and meant for the purpose of deriving
maximum satisfaction out of the job.
Types:
1. Educational Placement
2. Vocational Placement

7. Referral Services
 This referral service is arranged for the purpose of
specialized help. In this special cases student is
advised by teachers and counselors to go for taking
special help from specialized person or agency.
Because the student needs specialized help and
much care to overcome the problems.
Refers to :
 Area Counselor
 NGOs
 Govt. Agencies
 Psychiatrist
 Psychologist

8. Remedial Services
 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.
 Special Teachers
 Special Classes
 Special Pedagogical Strategies meant for
developing study skill.

9. Follow-Up Service
1. Follow-up service is a welfare attempt and a continuous process.
2. Follow-up service needs careful evaluation by the expert teachers and guidance workers.
3. During schooling each class is follow-up for at least five years.
4. Follow-up service is helpful and meant for all students of the school.
5. Follow-up service serves the goals and purposes of students and school in, a systematic
way.
6. Follow-up service assists guidance workers to know how far a particular educational
institution has been successful and systematic in offering educational experiences to its
pupils.
7. Follow-up service is helpful for the students to know how far they made right choices in
educational and vocational placement.
8. Follow-up service is helpful for the student to know how far he is able to get benefit from
the educational and vocational opportunities.
9. Follow-up service gives hints whether the student needs further guidance service or not.
10. Follow-up service even if is conducted for former students for the purpose of interaction
and collection of information.