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Guidance Areas

The document discusses different types of guidance needed for students, including vocational guidance to help choose careers, educational guidance to assist with schooling decisions, avocational guidance to utilize leisure time, social guidance for developing relationships, moral guidance, health guidance, and personal guidance to address individual issues. The goals of guidance at different stages include self-understanding, gaining work and education information, developing good habits and adjustment, and making wise choices. Various guidance methods are suggested to meet student needs from elementary through higher education.

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Guidance Areas

The document discusses different types of guidance needed for students, including vocational guidance to help choose careers, educational guidance to assist with schooling decisions, avocational guidance to utilize leisure time, social guidance for developing relationships, moral guidance, health guidance, and personal guidance to address individual issues. The goals of guidance at different stages include self-understanding, gaining work and education information, developing good habits and adjustment, and making wise choices. Various guidance methods are suggested to meet student needs from elementary through higher education.

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1. Vocational Guidance You know that bread and butter aims is one of the main aims of education.

Due to advancement in science and technology and consequent charges in industry and occupations have been emerged. There are thousands of specialized jobs/ occupations. In this context, there is a great need for vocational guidance. Vocational guidance is a process of assisting the individual to choose an occupation, prepare for it, enter upon it and progress in it. It is concerned primarily with helping individuals make decisions and choices involved in planning a future and building a career. The purpose behind assisting the youth to choose, prepare, enter and progress in a vocation is the optimum growth of the individual. Some of the aims and objectives of vocational guidance are: Assisting pupil to discover his/her own abilities and skills to feet them into general requirements of the occupation under consideration. Helping the individual to develop an attitude towards work that will dignify whatever type of occupation s/he may wish to enter. Assisting the individual to think critically about various types of occupations and to learn a technique for analyzing information about vocations. Assisting pupils to secure relevant information about the facilities offered by various educational institutions engaging in vocational training. At the elementary stage, although no formal guidance programmes are needed, the orientation to vocation can be initiated at this stage. At this stage some qualities and skills which have grater vocational significance viz. love and respect for manual work (ii) training in use of hands (iii) spirit of cooperative work (iii) sharing (vi) appreciation for all works (vii) good interpersonal relationship are to be developed.

At the secondary stage vocational guidance should help the students to know themselves, to know the world of work, to develop employment readiness to develop decision making rules. At the higher education stages it should be more formal one. The objectives of guidance at this stage are to help the students to get information about different career, training facilities, Apprenticeship etc.

2. Educational Guidance If one closely examines the problems of young pupils in schools and colleges, one would exactly realize the need of educational guidance. Educational problems head the needs of students problems. So education is an important guidance area. Educational guidance is related to every aspect of education school / colleges, the curriculum, the methods of instruction, other curricular activities, disciplines etc. Educational guidance is the assistance given to the individual (i) to understand his/her potentialities (ii) have a clear cut idea of the different

educational opportunities and their requirements (iii) to make wise choices as regards to school, colleges, the course : curricular and extracurricular. Some of the aims and objectives of educational guidance are: To assist the pupil to understand him/herself i.e. to understand his/her potentialities, strength and limitations. To help the child make educational plans consist with his/her abilities, interests and goals. To enable the student to know detail about the subject and courses offered. To assist the student in making satisfactory progress in various school/ college subjects. To help the child to adjust with the schools, its rules, regulations, social life connected with it. To help the child in developing good study habits. To help the child to participate in out of class educational activities in which he can develop leadership and other social qualities

At the elementary stage guidance programme must help the children to make good beginning, to plan intelligently, to get the best out of their education and prepare them for secondary schools. Educational guidance needs to be used in diagnosing difficulties, in identifying the special needs of children. At the secondary stage educational guidance should help the pupils to understand themselves better, to understand different aspects of the school, to select appropriate courses to get information about different educational opportunities, to develop good study habits. The students should be helped to be acquainted with the vocational implications of various school subjects. Educational guidance at the tertiary stages must oriented students about purpose and scope of higher studies and helps them to stimulate their studies. Each college/ university must have a guidance unit with due provision of guidance services. 3. Avocational Guidance: The individual student spends only a small portion of his time i.e. 4 t0 6 hours per day in school. The rest of the time needs to be effectively managed and utilized by the child for his/her progress and development. Avocational guidance helps the child to judiciously utilize the leisure time. The other cocurricular activities play an important role in all-round development of the child .But many parents; teachers and children put secondary importance to these activities. The students need to be properly guided for effective participation in varied types of avocational pursuits so that they are able to shape their interpersonal behavior in desirable direction and widen their outlook. 4. Social Guidance: We are social animals. But social relationships constitute a problem area for most of the students. School/educational institution is a miniature society and pupil from different socioeconomic status, linguistic and socio-cultural background read there. Students some time may face problems in adjustment and social relationship. It is very important that the students to be helped in acquiring in feeling of security and being accepted by the group; in developing social relationship and in becoming

tolerant towards others. This is the task of social guidance. Formally social guidance can be given by educational institutions whereas informal guidance may be provided by Family, religious institutions, Media etc. Moral Guidance: Moral values occupy an important place in our life. Sometimes due to influence of diverse factors students tell lies and indulge in undesirable practices. Moral guidance helps in bringing these students in to proper track and help in their all-round development. 5. Health Guidance: Health is regarded as the wealth. Total health i.e. preventive and curative is the goal of health guidance. The health guidance may be a cooperative effort of Principal, Doctors, Counselor/psychologist, Teachers, Students and parents. For promoting preventive care the conditions of school hostel, canteen needs to be checked. Similarly health education through formal classes and information is essential in school education stages. In the present day the concern of health guidance also pertains to guidance in HIV/AIDs. 6. Personal: Students face many personal problems related to themselves, their parents and family, friends and teachers, etc. They often have memories related to home or family which creates feeling of disappointment in them. If their parents are expecting too much of them it leaves them with a feeling of incompetence and insecurity leading poor self-concept and self-esteem. The objectives of personal guidance are to help the individual in his/her physical, emotional, social, rural and spiritual development. The aims and objectives of personal guidance are: 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. To assist the individual in understanding himself/herself. To assist the individual involving the personal problems. To assist the individual in taking independent decisions and judgment. To assist the individual to view the world and the social environment in right perspective. To assist the individual in making sound adjustments to different problems confronted in life.

Personal guidance is necessary at all stages of life. At the elementary school stage opportunities should be given to students for their self-expression. Personal guidance at this stage deals with the problems related to feeling of insecurity, social acceptance, discipline etc. At the secondary stage, the students have more intricate personal problems. During the secondary stage adolescent students due to peculiar physical, emotional and social developments undergo noticeable changes in their attitude and behavior. Personal guidance at this stage should therefore focus on personal and social adjustment.

Personal guidance at the tertiary stage aims at helping them view life in relation to reality. The scope of personal guidance at this stage is very wider.

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