For Teachers in elementary level

1. NATURE OF GROWTH PATTERN, FUNCTION OF
GUIDANCE and ROLE OF THE TEACHER.

2. Guidance in Elementary Level
It is based on the continuing development
and fundamental knowledge, attitudes
and skills of a personas a child matures
into an adolescent.
The emphasis of guidance is on
prevention and positive approach with
emphasis on mental hygiene and correct
values.

3. Components of Elementary
Guidance Program
I . Vision and Mission
II. General Objectives
III. Services and Program
a. Individual Pupil Inventory contains
personal, family, and academic data.
b. Information Services pertains to social
information like on-going orientation
programs involving teachers, parents,
and pupils.

4. c. Counseling Service includes individual, group
or classroom counseling session and referrals.
d. Testing means schedule, testing time including
standardized test.
e. Evaluation pertains to gathered feedback forms
to find out the strong and weak points of the
program.
IV. Yearly Calendar containing activities,
programs, and their corresponding dates of
schedule.

5. Nature and Growth Pattern of the Child
Learner
1. Children are similar in some aspects but they too
differ in certain phases. Some mature in all areas
rapidly, still few lag behind.
2. Environment plays a vital role in the child’s
proper development:
a. Food, warmth, air, and safety support physical
growth.
b. Having sense of security and worth of self
respect.
-Having a parents a dad or a mom to identify
himself with
-needs of belongingness

6. Function of GUIDANCE
To meet the development task required by
education in assisting students to grow up as
capable and contributing members of society
To help understand and sustain social
relationship
To discover individual aptitudes/skills
To develop critical thinking, appreciation of
worthwhile activities, sound and desirable
mental ability as well as a sense
responsibility and service among students.

7. Role of the TEACHER
There is a close link between guidance and
instruction. When the learners properly
guided correctly motivated, learning is its
best. The teacher should create a climate of
participative learning as he plays a very
significant post in affecting the lives and
personalities of the children.

8. Adam states that :
teacher affects eternity; no body can tell where
his influence stops.

9. When he discovers their strengths and their
weaknesses, he can utilize both to assist them to
improve. He can lead them to accept and
understand themselves to eventually define for
themselves their life goals. He, to the advantage
of the pupils, may influence their attitudes and
feelings to respond to situation reasonably.
on the other hand, he can sway them to
improvement. By his correct approach he can
create an environment of learning, respect for
individual differences, develop dynamic group of
learners, and discover each individual’s unique
learning style.

10. THE END 