Guidance is a process where trained personnel assist individuals in planning their futures and maximizing their potential to solve problems and lead successful lives. It is essential in schools for student development, helping them make informed choices and adjustments throughout their educational careers, while also minimizing mismatches between education and employment. Types of guidance include personal, educational, and vocational, addressing different aspects of an individual's growth and development.

2. What is Guidance?
Guidance is a process of assisting an individual by properly trained guidance
personnel in planning his future wisely and in developing his potentiality to
maximum for him to solve his immediate or future problems and to lead a
successful personal and social life.

3. Nature and Characteristics of Guidance
• Guidance is a form of assistance given by a matured and experienced
person to a less matured and inexperienced person.
• It involves the promotion of an individual’s ability in self-direction.
• It helps an individual to recognise and use his inner resources to set
goals, to make plan to workout his own problems of development.
• It is an organised programme.
• It consists of specialised services – testing, counselling educational
and vocational information, placement and follow up.
• It is not a one for all activity but a continuous life long process.
• It is a programme meant for all.

4. Need of Guidance in Schools
• To help in the development of the students.
• To enable students to make proper choices at various stages of their
educational career.
• To help students choose, prepare for, enter upon and progress in a
career.
• To help the students make the best possible adjustment to the
situations in the school as well as in the home.
• To minimising the mismatching between education and employment
and help in the efficient use of manpower.
• To help in checking wastage and stagnation.

5. Principles of Guidance
1. Dignity and worth of the individual is the primary concern of the
guidance.
2. The all round development of the individual must be taken into
account.
3. It should be a continuous process of service to an individual from
childhood through adulthood.
4. Guidance is based on individual differences.

6. Principles of Guidance
5. It is based on rigid code of ethics.
6. Guidance and instructional objectives are
complementary,independent and reciprocal.
7. An organized guidance programme should be flexible according to
the needs of the individual and community.
8. Periodic evaluation or appraisal should be made of the guidance
programme.

7. Types of Guidance
1. Personal Guidance
2. Educational Guidance
3. Vocational Guidance

8. Personal Guidance
Personal Guidance refers to the help given to an individual towards a
better adjustment in the development of attitudes and behaviour in all
areas of life.

9. Educational Guidance
Educational Guidance is a programme developed by the school to help
a student make the best possible choices as to daily curriculum and
daily schedule so that he or she get the full advantage of what the
school’s educational programme has of offer him or her.

10. Vocational Guidance
Vocational guidance is a process of helping pupil to get adequate
information regarding the world of work around him or her,make a
proper choice for his future vocation, get adequate training or
preparation for it, get entry into it and achieve maximum success and
satisfaction in it.

11. A Presentation By
Ramsheena K
Keyi Sahib Training college