1. Guidance
Services
By:
Christian Joel J Juson

2. Definition
The systematic and organized procedures, tools and facilities to assist an individual in securing knowledge and skills needed in making plans and services, and in interpreting life.
These services provide comprehensive information about opportunities, personality development, effective studying and learning.
The definition for “guidance” and “guidance services” are often interchanged.
So, for purposes of differentiating and clearer understanding, we use “guidance” as more or less
a general term to connote BOTH systematic and unsystematic, formal and informal means towards
a person’s development ---whereas--- guidance services is more systematic.

3. Purposes
Help students recognize, accept and develop their potential, adjust to the school, and develop the skills needed to cope with the problems they meet.
Help young people come to know and accept themselves, their aptitudes and interests.
Teach pupils/students learn to use their interests and capabilities.
Teach pupils/students develop the skills to cope with the problems they meet both inside and outside the school.

4. Scope
Services rendered to an individual and his needs – inventory of each pupil, information regarding opportunities, counseling for all pupils, follow-up on studies, placement, and assisting teachers in case studies.
2. Services to staff members in providing for leadership, in securing cooperation of the staff members, in assisting teachers in utilizing information, in organizing and conducting in-service training.
Guidance Services include the following:
3. Services pertaining to evaluation of services – follow-up making results available, surveys, securing cooperation of parents and community, and conducting research to further improve guidance services. .

5. Characteristics of a Good Guidance Service:
1. Identifiable aids to assist individuals.
2. Involved in achieving goals of education.
3. Provide for competent leadership.
4. Supported by functional preparations for teachers in guidance services.
5. Based on the knowledge of the needs of the pupils and upon
competencies of the staff members.
6. Services made available to all.
7. Needs the cooperation of parents and community.
8. More preventive than curative.
9. Founded on the concept of the totality of the individual.
10. Should be evaluated constantly.

6. Basic Guidance Services
1. INFORMATION SERVICES
The intentional and purposive delivery of information to students; the primary purpose of which is to enable students to use said information to reasonably guide their choices and actions inside and outside of the school.
This service makes available to learners certain kinds information not ordinarily provided through the instructional program or during the regular period of instruction.
It gives a continuous program about cooperation, opportunities for education and important facts concerning personal and social adjustment.
Such information is necessary in:
making intelligent vocational or educational choices
guiding personal and social adjustment.

7. Types of Information and Guidance Service Used:
1. Educational Information
- valid and usable data about present and probable future educational requirements.
Examples:
Plan and lay-out of school plan
Before proceeding with the examples, say this:
Educational Information includes:
curricular and co-curricular activities,
requirements for entrance
and conditions and problems of student life.
Policies governing school attendance, uniform, tardiness, etc
History and traditions of the school
Use of the library and other school services

8. Guidance Activities: Campus Tour/Open House before school starts.
Early level: Guidance personnel will work with parents
and children in the discussion of informing children
about how the school operates.
Grade six: Seminars informing students what lies
ahead in high school, if they go into one.
High School level: Advise students of extra-curricular activities of the school – joining in sports fests, friendly Quiz Bees and other competitions.
Providing printed materials like pocket-sized school map, summary of the schools policy, vision/mission, list of contact numbers for the school’s student personnel, etc.

9. Types of Information and Guidance Service Used:
1. Occupational Information
- valid and useful data about positions, jobs, and occupations.
Examples:
Conditions for work
Duties & requirements for work applications
Rewards offered
Existing or predicted supply of/demand for workers.
Advancement/Promotion patterns

10. Guidance Activities: One-on-One Interview/Consultation
Classroom Discussions
Guidance personnel forums to get a general understanding about the world of work. Learners can be helped if they come to understand that there are many reasons for working, and that money is JUST one of them.
One-on-One Interview/Consultation
Guidance officers can reach out to students and schedule interviews with them before graduation and are asked these questions:
What job you want to take?
How much money you want to make?
How long would you be willing to work?
Dissemination of job vacancies and opportunities through bulletin board, posters and flyers.
Mock Job Fair or Mock Interview

11. Types of Information and Guidance Service Used:
3. Personal-Social Information
- valid and usable data about the opportunities and influences of the human being which will help learners to understand themselves better and improve their relationship with others.
Examples:
Boy-girl relationships
Manners and etiquette
Personal appearance
Way of living (health)
Home and family relationships
Leisure-time activities
Social skills

12. Basic Guidance Services
2. Individual Inventory Services
The process of accumulating and analyzing information about an individual through the use of an Inventory Form and through routine interview. Data may be used to check for students who may need counseling or specialized guidance services.
Provides a synthesis of information about the individual which can be used to gain understanding of themselves as a person – their potential strengths and weaknesses, abilities, interests and needs.
It gives a continuous program about cooperation, opportunities for education and important facts concerning personal and social adjustment.
Such information is necessary in:
making intelligent vocational or educational choices
guiding personal and social adjustment.
Covers the collection, organization and interpretation of the data about pupils/students.

13. Information Obtained (for Individual Inventory Services)
1. Individual Identification Data
Pupil’s complete name, address, birthdate, gender.
Familial background – names of parents and siblings, their birthdates and birthplaces, parents religion and occupation, their hobbies and interests.
2. Cumulative Record
information concerned with learner’s appraisal and should cover the entire span of their academic career – past and present school performance.
3. Test Records
shall be discussed thoroughly by group 2
Provides information on the learner’s mental ability, aptitudes and interests.
4. Interest Inventories
Indicative of the learner’s likes and dislikes – thus can indirectly guide the counselor in determining how the learner choose their goals and purposes.

14. Information Obtained (for Individual Inventory Services)
5. Personalities Inventory
- designed to measure emotional adjustment, social relations and the motivational aspects of behaviour. Assess the elusive non-intellective aspects of an individual’s psychological makeup.
6. Non-Test/Self Evaluation Reports
- information that are obtained through non-test techniques, like autobiographies and essays about an important experience.
Guidance Activities: (for Individual Inventory Services)
Asking applicants to fill out Questionnaires
Entrance exams
Screening Interviews
Weekly Homeroom Guidance Class

15. Types of Placement Services:
Basic Guidance Services
3. Placement Services
- a continuous program which helps determine the manner (how) to assign a student based on his/her personal and social adjustment.
Types of Placement Services:
1. Educational Placement
It gives a continuous program about cooperation, opportunities for education and important facts concerning personal and social adjustment.
Such information is necessary in:
making intelligent vocational or educational choices
guiding personal and social adjustment.
- related to practically all areas of the educational program such as academic courses, attendance, work experience, electives, part-time work, and extra-curricular activities. Through Placement Services, students are placed in grade levels, classes and activities suitable to their needs, interests, abilities, and if applicable - schedules.

16. Guidance Activities (for Educational Placement):
College Admission Tests
Dissemination of Printed Communications listing colleges, universities
and trade schools with a summary of their particular area of specializations.
Surveys/Tests designed to determine the student’s suitable specialization
2. Vocational Placement
- also known as “job placement”. Graduates receive appropriate training and preparation to ensure them that they can land in a stable job after school/graduation.
Guidance Activities (for Vocational Placement):
OJT/Internship
– students are sent to external businesses and agencies to familiarize them on the actual working environment.

17. Guidance Activities (continuation for Vocational Placement):
Posters and Printouts for Job Opportunities
- posted in bulletin boards.
Linkages with schools, industries and agencies for job placements.
Job Fair
- allows students to choose a job which fits academic preparation, needs, abilities and interests.
Series of Symposia
- where professionals and vocation animators are invited to discuss their job requirements and activities.
Field trips

18. Types of Placement Services:
Basic Guidance Services
4. Counseling Services
- core of the guidance program that is a form of intervention that leads to a more effective behaviour. This is done where there is a pressing need to talk to the student or pupil urgently.
Types of Placement Services:
1. Group Counseling
- a group activity aimed to assist EACH INDIVIDUAL
member of the group to solve his/her problem and make adjustments on how he/she behaves in the group.

19. Guidance Activities (for Group Counseling):
Organizing Home Room Organizations
- earliest form to bring about group guidance activities.
- students/pupils are grouped into committees assigned for a particular task. Most of the time, a leader is chosen to spear head the activity.
usual groups/assignments:
Sweepers of the Day; Front yard Cleaners.
Lectures, conferences, programs, parties and convocations.

20. Guidance Activities: (for Individual Counseling)
- the counseling service is now more focused to one individual – how he/studies, plays or behaves in a group.
Guidance Activities: (for Individual Counseling)
Consultation
– one-on-one scheduled guidance talk between the client and the guidance councillor.
Voluntary Counseling/Walk-in Counseling
– when an individual seeks the help of counselor to aid him/her in a difficult or challenging situation.
The school also has professional affiliations to outside professionals and agencies and referral of students to these persons or agencies are done whenever the need arises. Counseling or clinical cases deemed beyond the level of expertise or resources of the faculty counselors are referred to others to ascertain that students in such cases would be able to benefit from the best available intervention.
Referral Counseling
– a parent, faculty, counselor or other students recommends a consultation/appointment between the student and guidance counselor.

21. Basic Guidance Services
5. Vocational/Career Services
- set of services specifically designed to assist students in their career and planning choices. It creates awareness and appreciation of the different stages of life and professional careers.
- Cultivates proper attitude towards work decision and choice settings.
Guidance Activities:
Career Education
Example: seminars or seminar-workshops on writing an effective resume, application letter, cover letter,
biodata etc.
It gives a continuous program about cooperation, opportunities for education and important facts concerning personal and social adjustment.
Such information is necessary in:
making intelligent vocational or educational choices
guiding personal and social adjustment.
Career Information
Example: Job posting and dissemination
Career Placement
Example: Job Fair (as discussed thoroughly
in the “Job Placement Services” earlier)

22. Basic Guidance Services
6. Remedial and Enrichment Services
- practical measures adapted to enrich students especially those that need more attention to cope up with regular classes. Mostly made available to students or individuals with reading, speech or any other form of learning difficulties.
Guidance Activities:
Remedial Classes/Periods
Tutorial sessions
Organizing specialized groups for specific subjects
like Math Club, Science Club, etc.

23. Basic Guidance Services
7. Special Guidance Services
a. Developmental Learning Services
-Seminars or workshops facilitated by counselors or invited resource persons on topics not covered by the information service and personality education classes.
- The aim of such program is to facilitate the learning experience of students on a wide variety of topics that could help them in their adjustment in school and life in general.
b. Psycho-therapeutic Intervention Program
It gives a continuous program about cooperation, opportunities for education and important facts concerning personal and social adjustment.
Such information is necessary in:
making intelligent vocational or educational choices
guiding personal and social adjustment.
- programs specifically planned, designed, and implemented to meet the need of a particular group of students (i.e. athletes, single-mothers).
- the aim of such program is to promote psychological wellness and prevent future incidents of maladjustments or to remedy an already existing case of maladjustments among students belonging to special target groups.

24. Basic Guidance Services
8. Research and Evaluation
Research is a guidance function where the counselor develops and implements research plans that would generate empirical data about students and student life that could be used to inform policy and decision-making in the school, especially on matters relevant to student welfare and development, and to inform the direction and suitability of the various guidance services, as well as of the other student services and programs provided.
Evaluation, on the other hand, is a guidance function where the counselor develop and implement assessment and evaluation plans that would provide soft and hard data on the quality, results, and impact of the various student services and programs. Evaluation data can be used as basis for enhancement of existing programs and development of new programs.
It gives a continuous program about cooperation, opportunities for education and important facts concerning personal and social adjustment.
Such information is necessary in:
making intelligent vocational or educational choices
guiding personal and social adjustment.

25. Basic Guidance Services
9. Follow-up Services
- intended to secure information about former students and provide continuing services for students after they leave school. This technique for evaluating the appropriateness and adequacy of the instructional program.
It gives a continuous program about cooperation, opportunities for education and important facts concerning personal and social adjustment.
Such information is necessary in:
making intelligent vocational or educational choices
guiding personal and social adjustment.

26. Types of Follow-up Service
a. In-School Follow-up
- help diminish the number of
drop-outs by knowing the causes/reasons why students leave school. Also helps students
adjust to student life.
Guidance Activities:
One-on-One Consultation and Monitoring
A test is given, results are kept and are communicated to the student concerned. Counselors continue to monitor the child’s behaviour every now and then.
Parent Conference
Counselors coordinate and gets in touch with the parents so the child’s behaviour is still observed even at home.

27. Types of Follow-up Service (continuation)
b. Out-of-school Follow-up
- applies to services extended even to the graduates to instill in them a sense of belongingness. It also helps the school
analyse its effectiveness.
Guidance Activities:
Organizing alumni homecoming parties
Organizing alumni associations
Interviews with former students
Interviews with employers
Questionnaires for former students
Questionnaires for employers
Feedback from employers