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Types of Guidance

Educational guidance: This is any assistance to be


provided to the learners so that;

 They may adjust in schools

 Cope with the curriculum and

 Cope with school life.


Need for Educational Guidance
Use of appropriate study habits

Appropriate selection of subject combinations

Desirable change in school administration and


teaching methods.
Need for Educational Guidance
Information about future education and jobs

Providing awareness of various opportunities

Making students busy in learning

Adjustment in schools
Vocational/Career Guidance
Vocational guidance is the assistance given to students
in;

 Choosing and preparing for a suitable vocation.

 It is concerned primarily with helping individuals


make decision and choices involved in planning for
the future.
Four Elements of Career Guidance:

 Helping individuals to gain greater self-awareness in


areas such as interest, values, abilities and
personality style;

 Connecting students to resources so that they can


become more knowledgeable about jobs and
occupations;
 Engaging students in the decision making
process in order to choose a career path that
is well suited to their own interests, abilities,
values and personality style;
 Assisting individuals to be active managers
of their career paths (including managing
career transitions and balancing various life
roles) as well as becoming lifelong learners
in the sense of professional development over
the life span.
Career counselors therefore look at the
following

Information about where certain schools and


vocations can be found.

Entrance: Is it by examination, by application and


interview, or by capital investment?
Preparation: What kind of education and training is
needed?

Qualifications: What are the academic and/or


physical qualifications?

Aptitudes: What are the I.Q. and other special


aptitudes needed?
 Employment prospects: Are the employment
prospects for this occupation expanding or
diminishing?

 Nature of Work: What are the pleasant or


unpleasant things workers have to do? What
tools, equipment, or materials, are used? What are
the hours of work? Are there any shifts?
 Work Environment: Is it hot, cold, humid, dry,
wet, dirty, noisy, etc.?

 Interests: What are the interests of people to


succeed in this particular occupation?

 Legal and professional: Is a license or


certificate required?
 Likes or dislikes: What are the likes and dislikes of
the job?

 Advancement: What proportion of workers succeed


and to what positions?

 Earnings: What are the earnings per month and


year? How are wages paid?
What are the possibilities of finding a job in region
where a client lives.

What is the future outlook of the occupation a client


is interested in?
Factors Influencing Career Choice
Age consideration

Public image of the job

Information availability
Personality characteristics

Educational background

Family background

School background
 Community/cultural factors

 Influence of peers and significant others

Economic constraints and considerations


Personal Guidance
This is the help given to an individual to solve his/her
personal problems.

Personal guidance includes:


 The need to overcome superiority or inferiority
complex

 The need to overcome stress (stress management)


Personal Guidance
 The need for self control and self management
e.g., time management, self-regulation, setting
personal priorities
Health Guidance
This involves total health;
 Preventive care e.g., hygienic conditions of school
hostel, canteen; body fitness through physical
exercise and healthy foods/nutrition need to be
checked.
 Curative e.g., communicable diseases like cough,
Covid-19, EBOLA and STDs like HIV/AIDS.
Orientation Guidance
The focus is to help the learner adjust to the new
environment.

The services include;

 Information about the rules and regulations of the


school
Orientation Guidance

They need to know the various geographical


locations of various units e.g. library, sickbay,
headteachers’s office etc.

Information about culture of the place.

To learn and know the behaviors in a certain society.


Avocational Guidance
 Avocational guidance helps the child to
judiciously utilize the leisure time. The other co-
curricular activities play an important role in
all-round development of the child.
Social Guidance
 We are social animals.
 Students come from different socio-economic
status, linguistic and socio-cultural
backgrounds.
 It is very important that students be helped in
acquiring feelings of security and being accepted
by the group in developing social relationship.
Life Skills in Social Guidance
 Assertiveness skills to overcome peer pressure
 Descent use of language with other people
 Skills to control antisocial behavior e.g., fighting,
theft, etc.
 Amicable conflict resolution
 Descent dressing and dress code
 Information about sexual relationships
Moral Guidance
 Moral values occupy an important place in our
life.
 Sometimes students tell lies and indulge in
undesirable practices.
 Moral guidance helps in bringing these students
onto the right track and help in their all round
development
Placement Services
 This is applied in three areas of guidance
(personal, educational and vocational)
 Aims of Placement Services
 Help students find themselves in the right home,
school and society as a whole.
 Help students get admitted in the right school
 Prepare students for the right job
Placement Services
 Make sure students have;
o Right friends
o Right atmosphere around them
o A place in their peer groups liked by their parents
and teachers.

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