This document discusses the concept and principles of guidance. It defines guidance as assisting individuals, through their own efforts, to discover and develop their potential for personal happiness and social usefulness. The document outlines the need for guidance to help with self-understanding, problem-solving, decision-making, and optimal individual development. It also discusses the nature, scope, and principles of organizing guidance programs at different educational levels from elementary school through university. The goals of guidance include academic and social adjustment, career exploration, and facilitating each student's growth.

1. .Concept of Guidance
By
Dr. Satish Raj
Assistant Professor
Scholl of Education
Lovely Professional University Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Email:- satishnurpur@gmail.com
+91 7589110552

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5. Meaning of Guidance
• Literally guidance means ‘to direct’, ‘to
point out’, ‘to show the path‘.
• It is the assistance or help rendered by a more
experienced person to a less experienced
person to solve certain major problems of the
individual (less experienced) i.e. educational,
vocational, personal etc.

6. Guidance is a concept as well as a
process
• As a concept guidance is concerned with the
optimal development of the individual.
• As a process guidance helps the individual in
self understanding (understanding one‗s
strengths, limitations, and other resources) and
in self-direction (ability to solve problems,
make choices and decision on one‗s own).

7. Definition of Guidance
• Ruth Strang, ―Guidance is a process of helping
every individual, through his own efforts, to
discover and develop his potentialities for his
personal happiness and social usefulness.‖
• Knapps, ―Learning about the individual student,
helping him to understand himself, effecting
changes in him and in his environment which will
help him to grow and develop as much as possible
– these are the elements of guidance.‖

8. NEED AND IMPORTANCE OF
GUIDANCE
• Self understanding and self direction: Guidance helps
in understanding one‗s strength, limitations and other
resources.
• Guidance helps individual to develop ability to solve
problems and take decisions.
• Optimum development of individual
• Solving different problem of the individual
• Academic growth and development
• Vocational choices and vocational adjustments,
vocational maturity

9. NEED AND IMPORTANCE OF GUIDANCE
• Social adjustment
• Personal adjustment
• Better family life
• Good citizenship
• For conservation and proper utilization of human resources
• For national development
• Help to make a satisfactory transition from home to the school.
• To diagnose the difficulties in the learning of basic skills.
• To help to avoid potential dropouts to study in schools.
• To help them understand the purpose and meaning of life.
• To plan for further education.

10. Nature of Guidance
• 1. Guidance stands for the process of education as a whole
• 2. The guidance is meant for all the children
• 3. Guidance is attainment of self-direction by an individual
• 4. Guidance as a continuous process
• 5. Guidance is both a science and an art
• 6. Guidance is a process of learning, helping and effective for
an individual
• 7. Guidance is a team work
• 8. Guidance as the promotion of the growth of the individual
in self direction
• 9. Guidance is functional by nature
• 10. Guidance is a process of assisting an individual to find his
place

11. Nature of Guidance
• 11. Guidance establishes an effective relationship
• 12. Guidance is regarded as a professional process
• 13. Guidance is individual and grouped in nature
• 14. Guidance as a systematic phase of the educative process
• 15. Guidance is a process of assisting to adjust
• 16. The guidance is meant for the development of self
• 17. Guidance as helping and adjusting
• 18. Guidance as adjustment and vocational
• 19. Adjustment to environment
• 20. Guidance regards the worth of each and every child

12. Principles of Guidance
• Principle of universality
• Principle of continuity
• Principle of Individualism
• Principle of flexibility in methods and procedures
• Principle of complexity of problems
• Principle of self pacing

13. Scope of Guidance service
• Educational Guidance
• Vocational Guidance
• Personal Guidance
• Social Guidance
• Advocational Guidance
• Health Guidance

14. Guidance at Elementary School level
• To adjust the new environment.
• To adjust the special character of some children.
• To identify learning difficulties and the special needs of children
• To reduce the learning disabilities.
• To preserve their emotional, educational, social needs.
• To prevent emotional, educational, social backwardness.

15. Guidance at Secondary School level
• Increase self-knowledge and how to relate effectively to
others.
• Broaden the knowledge about the changing environment.
• Helps them reach their fullest academic potential.
• Provides opportunities for career exploration, planning and
decision making.
• Provides an opportunity for networking with services and thus
establishes an effective support system.
• To help child in selecting subjects
• To help child to maintain good health
• To encourage children
• To participate in co-curricular activities
• To develop & maintain records of children

16. Guidance at University level
• Sorting out their educational problems
• To develop personality and behaviour
• To provide a complete picture about the reality of life
• To help them in achieving the goals of life
• To acquaint them with the scope of higher studies
• To enable them to plan and organise seminars etc.
• To help them in finding job opportunities.

17. Need of Organizing Guidance Programme
• (i) It helps the teachers to take note of potentialities of each
student in different degree in different direction.
• (ii) It helps the students and their parents to make right and
appropriate career plans for future.
• (iii) It helps to understand the physical, social, emotional and
intellectual characteristics and the need of pupils.
• (iv) It promotes efficiency in providing essential reliable and
scientific data on pupils.
• (v) It provides knowledge to children in making satisfactory
adjustment in the school and the community.
• (vi) A well organized guidance programme saves time, money
and effort.

18. Need of Organizing Guidance Programme
• (vii) It helps students to find a suitable occupation or vocation.
• (viii) It helps teachers to understand the individual differences
of children in various spheres.
• (ix) It can properly utilize skill, training, knowledge,
potentialities and interest of staff members of the school.
• (x) It co-ordinates the work of all persons engaged in the
guidance programme.
• (xi) It utilizes community resources properly for ensuring
smooth organization of guidance programme.
• (xii) It helps the students in achieving self-development, self-
direction and self-realization.
• (xiii) It considers the activities and functions of the personnel
engaged in school guidance services.
• (xiv) It helps in developing good human relationships.

19. Principles of Organizing Guidance Programme
• (i) The guidance services should be meant for all the
categories of students.
• (ii) Organization of guidance programme of any type—
educational, vocational and personal should be done in
accordance with the interests, needs and purpose of the pupils.
• (iii) The guidance service should consider the total
environment of the child while organizing guidance
programme for them.
• (iv) The guidance programme may be different in an industrial
school from that of an agricultural school.
• (v) The guidance services should treat the pupil in its entirety.
• (vi) It should also meet the specific needs and problems of the
pupil.

20. Principles of Organizing Guidance Programme
• (vii) Adequate information regarding occupational and
educational requirements and opportunities should be stored.
• (viii) The guidance services should co-operate with all the
agencies of education and provide for leadership.
• (ix)Problems of pupils should be dealt with before they
become serious.
• (x)It should be directed towards improving pupils self-
knowledge and self-direction.
• (xi) Adequate provision should be made in guidance services
for testing tools to be used in it.
• (xii) The interest and effort of every member of the staff
should be given top most priority in the organisation of
guidance services.
• (xiii) It should be as simple as possible.