1) Every teacher has a responsibility to provide guidance and counseling to students, as guidance is essential to good teaching and classroom management. 2) Guidance and counseling helps individuals understand themselves, solve their own problems, and make adjustments by empowering them to decide how to accomplish their goals. 3) As guidance counselors, teachers must keep accurate anecdotal records of each student to document their performance and progress over time, while respecting students' rights to privacy and access to their own records.