This document outlines 10 guidance services that teachers can provide: 1) Orientation service to help new students adjust; 2) Individual inventory service to collect student data to help them make decisions; 3) Information service to provide career and educational information; 4) Counseling service using directive, non-directive, or eclectic approaches; 5) Placement service to help students find educational or job placements; 6) Referral service for students needing specialized help; 7) Remedial service for students with special needs; 8) Follow-up service to evaluate student progress; 9) Research service to improve guidance programs; 10) Evaluation service to assess guidance program effectiveness.

1. UNIT II. B
GUIDANCE SERVICES
THAT A TEACHER CAN
PROVIDE
by: Cherly A. Bedua

6. The orientation service is
provided to the students who
are new comers and those who
go to new class or new course
in the school set up.
Guidance Service # 1.
Orientation Service:

7. Guidance Service # 2. Individual Inventory
Service:
Individual inventory service is an important
type of guidance service which may be
recognized often as “pupil’s” inventory service. It
is very much essential for student as it assists to
know the student “himself” at the time of taking
any decisions so far, his educational courses
and careers are concerned.

8. The following steps should be followed at the
time of organization of individual inventory
service in the school:
1. Data collection
a. General data
b. Family data
c. Physical data
d. Academic data
e. Social data

9. f. Data about co- curricular activities
g. Psychological data
h. Data regarding entertainment
2. Maintenance of data
3. Use of Data
4. Self Inventory Service

10. Guidance Service # 3. Information Service:
Information actually plays a vital role in each
and every guidance programme. Because it
assists students to take suitable decisions in
case of planning educational career and
vocational career. At the same time, it is helpful
to students to adjust well in different social
situations including school situation and
occupational situation.

11. The essential information for planning the
educational and vocational career is
collected from various sources such as:
(1) Teachers
(2) Parents
(3) School guidance personnel or Counsellor
(4) Intimate friends and mates
(5) News papers and different useful journals
(6) Other mass media such as Radio and T.V.

12. Types of Information:
There are three categories of
information’s which are very much
essential for good guidance service
such as:
(i) Educational information
(ii) Occupational information
(iii) Personal-Social information.

13. According to Norris and others “Educational
information is valid and usable data about all types of
probable future educational or training opportunities
and requirements, including curricular and co-
curricular offerings, requirements for entrance and
condition and problem of student life. Educational
information service is not only useful for students but
also it is essential for teachers, parents, and
counsellors to guide the students in this regard
properly.

14. Guidance Service # 4. Counselling Service:
As an integral part of guidance programme,
counselling service is not a recent idea and service
having wide applications in different social set up
such as family, school, medical, other counselling
centers etc. counselling service may be provided by
parents to children in the family, by teachers to
students in school, by doctors to patients in medical
and so on to overcome the problems what generally
occur in their lives.

15. Counselling is defined
as “Consultation,
mutual interchange of
opinions, deliberating
together.”

16. Types of Counselling Service:
Counselling is of mainly three types on
the basis of its approaches such as:
1.Directive Counselling
2.Non Directive Counselling
3.Eclectic Counselling

17. 1. Directive Counselling
►is a process where counsellor plays a major role as
the leader of the counselling situation. Due to this cause
directive counselling is considered and recognized as
counsellor centered counselling. The credit goes to
Williamson and Darley as they coined new terminology
namely clinical counselling in the place of counsellor
centered counselling. In this counselling service counsellor
conducts the interview with the counselee to know the
problem of the student.

18. 2. Non-directive Counselling
► Non-directive counselling is based on the Carl
R. Rogerian self- theory throughout the interview
which is otherwise known as counselee centered
counselling. Because in this type of counselling the
counselee occupies an important place and plays
significant role in the process. Of course counselee
develops insight for the solution of problem with the
help of the counsellor whose role is passive.

19. 3. Eclectic Counselling
► Eclectic counselling is not extreme form of
counselling like directing counselling and non-
directive counselling. In directive counselling
counsellor plays a dominant role and contrary to
this in non-directive counselling counselee
commands precious place being more active than
counsellor. But eclectic counselling is based on
principles taken from both the aforesaid counselling.

20. In this type of counselling counsellor is
neither too active and nor too passive and the
same principle is true to counselee also. The
counsellor tries to adopt his methods according
to needs of the counselee and motivates the
counselee to solve his own problems after
careful observation and analysis of personality
and needs of the individual.

21. Guidance Service # 5. Placement Service:
Like other guidance services, placement
service is a kind of guidance service which is
especially carried on by teachers on guidance
workers to assist students to find out his own
place in the educational setting on occupational
world considering his abilities, interests, skills,
aptitudes and attitudes.

22. According to H.B. English and A.C.
English the term placement refers to “the
assigning of a worker to the job for
which he is judged best fitted.” Further
same has been stressed that in terms of
placement “fitness includes the
individual’s satisfaction as well as his
ability in relation to the job.”

23. Guidance Service # 6. Referral Service:
The referral service is meant for the students
who are not subject to be guided and counselled by
the teachers or guidance workers in a normal group.
This referral service is arranged for the purpose of
specialized help. In this special cases student is
advised by teachers and counsellors to go for taking
special help from specialized person or agency.
Because the student needs specialized help and
much care to overcome the problems.

24. Guidance Service # 7. Remedial Service:
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.

25. Guidance Service # 8. Follow-Up Service:
Follow-up service is considered as an important
guidance service which is intended to evaluate and
ascertain the student’s progress and performance in
the context of educational career and activities and
progress in the job placement. It is not only the main
task of teacher and guidance worker to provide
educational placement and job placement through
placement service but also it is most important
concern is to evaluate the performance and success
in the respective field.

26. Guidance Service # 9. Research Service:
Research service occupies an important
place in guidance service which is needed
highly in the guidance process for the
following reasons:
(i) The research service helps guidance personnel
for the purpose of a better understanding of
students, his school activities and his difficulties.

27. (ii) The research service gives chance to know
about available school resources.
(iii) The research service helps guidance personnel
to evaluate the achievement of the students in the
context of their goals.
(iv) The research service helps guidance
personnel to enrich the curriculum on the basis of
findings of the studies.
(v) The research service helps guidance personnel
to redirect and re-orient the various other services
which are already provided.

28. (vi)The research service is meant to examine and study
the personnel those who are involved in the school
guidance program.
(vii) The research service is meant to examine the
techniques of guidance program which are used by
guidance personnel to accelerate the guidance service.
(viii) The research service provides a basis for guidance
development program in the school.
(ix) The research service helps guidance personnel to
develop new methods and techniques of guidance.

29. Guidance Service # 10. Evaluation
Service:
The evaluation process is an essential part
of the process of guidance which is continuous
in nature and done from time to time. Because
it completes the entire process of guidance
provided in the school.

30. It is needed to evaluate following considerations such as:
(i) Use and application of collected information’s to continue
activities to find its effectiveness.
(ii) How far guidance services satisfy the needs and the
student’s efficiency.
(iii) To what extent the time consumed for guidance service is
right.
(iv) To what extent the money spent for guidance service is
right.
(v) How far guidance personnel involved in the guidance
programme have done their work.

32. References:
https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/india-
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students-in-school-education/90003
https://www.slideshare.net/hijabzaidi/guidance-
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