INSTITUTE OF VOCATIONAL STUDIES, AWADH CENTRE OF EDUCATION

(Affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University)

              Submitted by:     IQRA MAIRAJ                   

                  Submitted to:     ERAM AZIZ

BACHELOR OF EDUCATION

(2016-2018)

INDEX

S.NO	TOPIC
1.	WHAT IS GUIDANCE COUNSELING ?
2.	DEFINATIONS OF GUIDANCE
3.	MEANING OF GUIDANCE
4.	PRINCIPALS OF GUIDANCE
5.	DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING
6.	FUNCTIONS OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING
7.	NEED OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING
8.	COUNSELOR INTERVIEW

What is Guidance counseling ?

Guidance counseling, byname counseling and guidance, the process of helping individuals discover and develop their educational, vocational, and psychological potentialities and thereby to achieve an optimal level of personal happiness and social usefulness.

         The concept of counseling is essentially democratic in that the assumptions underlying its theory and practice are, first, that each individual has the right to shape his own destiny and, second, that the relatively mature and experienced members of the community are responsible for ensuring that each person’s choice shall serve both his own interests and those of society. It is implicit in the philosophy of counseling that these objectives are complementary rather than conflicting. The function of those who guide children and young people is not to effect a compromise between the requirements of individuals on the one hand and the demands of the community on the other. It is rather to orient the individual toward those opportunities afforded by his environment that can best guarantee the fulfillment of his personal needs and aspirations.

           Guidance, in this sense, is a pervasive activity in which many persons and organizations take part. It is afforded to individuals by their parents, relatives, and friends and by the community at large through various educational, industrial, social, religious, and political agencies and, particularly, through the press and broadcasting services. A part of such guidance may be the giving of information that enables others to increase the scope of their exploratory behaviour. The guidance counselor, for example, may provide information about a person’s own abilities and interests as determined by psychological tests or about educational opportunities and the requirements of various occupations. The competent counselor does not attempt to solve people’s problems for them, however; the counselor tries instead to clarify the person’s own thinking.

Professional counselors and counseling psychologists are commonly found in institutional settings such as high schools and colleges, private industry, community agencies, prisons, and the military, as well as in private practice. They are often called on to help individuals deal with the grief of unexpected tragedies.

Definitions of guidance

Guidance is a process through with an individual is able to solve their problems and pursue a path suited to their abilities and aspirations. (Brewer)

Guidance is a facilitative service, which provide aids to pupils and staff

·         To help pupils determine the courses most appropriate to their needs and abilities

·         To find instructors who will be more sympathetic to their individual requirements and seek out activities which will help them to realize their presentation           ( McBaniel)

Guidance is an aspect of educational programme which is concerned especially with helping the pupil to become adjusted to her present situation and to plan his future in line with her interests, abilities and social needs.         (Hamrin and Erikson)

Meaning of guidance

Guidance is all round assistance to individual in all aspect of his or her development. It makes use of the science of psychology to determine the attitude, interest , intelligence, personality and the discipline of the education for providing right and suitable assistance. It has the characteristic of

• It is a process of helping or assisting an individual to solve their problems. It help them to identify where to go, what to do and how to do for post accomplishment of their goals.
• It is a continuous process which start right from childhood , adolescence and continues over in old age.
• It is assistance to the individual in the process of development rather than direction of that development.
• It is a service meant for all: its regular service which is required for every student, not only for abnormal students.
• Guidance is an organized service not in incidental activity of the school.
• Guidance is more an art than science.
• Guidance is centered around the needs and aspiration of students.

Principles of guidance

According to Crow and Crow there are 14 significant principles for guidance they are

1. Every aspect of person’s complex personality pattern constitutes a significant factor of his total displayed attitudes and form of behavior. Guidance service which are aimed at bringing about desirable adjustments in any particular area of experience must take in to account, the all round development of the individual.

2. Although all human beings are similar in many respect, individual difference must be recognized and considered in any effort aimed at providing help or guidance to a particular child.
3. The functions of the guidance is to help a person

• Formulate and accept stimulating , worthwhile and attainable goals of behavior
• Apply the goals to conduct his behavior.
3. Existing social, economic and politic unrest is giving rise to many maladaptive factors that require the cooperation of experienced and thoroughly trained guidance workers and the individuals with the problem.
4. Guidance should be regarded as a continuing process of service to an individual from young childhood through adulthood.
5. Guidance service should not be limited to the few who give observable evidence of its need, but should be extended to the all person of all ages who can benefit there from either directly or indirectly.
6. Curriculum materials and teaching procedure should evidence a guidance point of view.
7. Parents and teachers have guidance appointed responsibilities.
8. To administer guidance intelligently and with as thorough knowledge of the individual as is possible , programs of individual evaluation should be conducted and accurate consultative records of progress should made accessible to guidance workers.
9. An organized guidance programme should be flexible according to the individual and social needs.
10. The responsibilities for administration of guidance programme should be centered in a personally qualified and adequately trained person, working cooperatively with his assistance and other community welfare and guidance agencies.

12. Periodical appraisal should be made for existing guidance programmes.
13. Guidance touches every phase of an individual’s life pattern.
14. Specific guidance problems on any age level should be referred to persons who are trained to deal with particular areas of adjustment.

Difference between guidance and counseling

• Guidance is mainly preventive and developmental where as counseling is remedial as well as preventive and developmental.
• Intellectual attitudes are the raw material of guidance but emotional rather than pure intellectual attitude are the raw materials of counseling process.
• In guidance decision making operable at intellectual level, where as in counseling it operate at emotional level.
• In educational context, counseling service is one among various service offered by guidance programme.

Functions of guidance and counseling

Guidance and counseling have three fold functions namely adjustmental , orientataional and development.

Adjustmental

They help the student in making the best possible adjustment to the current situation in the educational institution in the home and the community. It enable the student to accept the things which they cannot

change in life and differentiate what they can change and cannot change in life.

Orientational

They orient the student in the problem of cancer planning, educational programming and direction towards long term personal aims and values.

Developmental

It is concerned with helping the people to achieve self development and self realization.

Need of guidance and counseling

The need for guidance and counseling can be summarize as

1. To help is the total development of the students.
2. To arise students in leading a healthy life by abstaining from whatever is deterious to health.
3. To help the proper selection of educational programme.
4. To select career according to their interest and abilities.
5. To help students in vocational development.
6. To develop readiness for change and to face challenges.
7. To help freshers to establish proper written.
8. To identify and motivate students of the weaker society.
9. To help the students to overcome the period of turmoil and confusions.
10. Ensure proper utilization of time –spend outside the class.

11. To help in tackling problems arising out of student exploration and co-education.
12. To minimize the indiscipline.
13. To motivate youth for self employment.

Guidance counselors offer students guidance-the discussion and information students need to make wise decisions regarding educational and career opportunities. Guidance counselors also offer students counseling-the help and support students need in dealing with personal stress and problems of adjustment. Although it is useful for purposes of description to deal with guidance and counseling as if they were separate activities, in practice they often overlap. Guidance counseling began as a service for college and high school students. Today, however, guidance counselors also work with junior high and elementary school students.

COUNSELOR OF ANGLO ARABIC S.S SCHOOL AND        ANGLO ARABIC MODEL SCHOOL

(MOHD TAYYBAB KHAN )

Question: Sir tell me a little about your background and what influenced you to become a counsellor.

Answer: I was passionate about teaching but wanted to make a difference amongst students, so took the route of counseling.

Question: What do you see as the main role of a school counsellor ?

Answer: The main role of a school counselor is to ensure students are advised on various fronts, academe, emotional etc.

Question: What do you think is the most important characteristic of a counsellor ?

Answer: The most important is to understand the childern and be patient with them and not to jump counclusion.

Question: What is the counseling theory or approch that you most closely follow ?

Answer: We fallow individual, face to face counseling.

Question: What are your personal philosophies regarding individual VS group counselling ?

Answer: Well both have equal importance, but individual counsling is any day preferred over group counseling as we can cater to single client as compared to a larger audience.

Question: What is your strongest asset ?

Answer : I am excellent at making a bond and connect with the students and good at interpersonal skills too.

Question : what technology application do you see being useful in your work ?

Answer: Technology aids the process of our counseling work and we can get some insight about the client immediate need.

Question : What types of professional development opportunities would you like to participate into enhance your skills.

Answer: We wish embrace leadership skills and some add on course like  Action – research , NPL, and etc.

Question: What do you think the role of the counselor is in preventing school violence ?

Answer : Violence is an integral part of adults, we sensitze them through different programme and workshop by different industry expert also we emphasize on student getting engaged in various activities to channelize their energy.

Question : What innovative and new idea would you like to employ ar a school counsellor ?

 Answer : The concept of mentors is missing in school administration and we wish to bring the same.

Question :Sir how do you deal with students when they come up with their problems?

Answer: Students are very much innocent so, by dealing with them first and foremost thing which is important we need to bring them at emotional level in fact we have to match our level with students to extract hiding problems all related to them. They do better tell us or share their day to day life’s related problems and we need to deal with them with mentally and emotionally, which is required. Students can trust upon you then this process would be started.

Question : How do you do career counselling?

Answer: It depends on which kind of problem occurs. There are so many concerns and problems like starting from sexual harassment and many more it doesn’t end up with studies only, take an example of a student “his father was hung up under the terrorist act, later on his father’s job was offered to her mother. The child was only in eleventh standard so far as she is far away from the reality of the world, this accident shocked her she thought that she would not pass exams this respectively this year and eventually was failed in mid-term exams, now she fallen down there was a time when she wanted to suicide and refused to get to home as her mother was very much strict and expected from her a lot.  So, I realized that this is the age of “stress and storm” she can take any harmful decision so, I asked her trust yourself as much as u can, so I told her you better prepare for math’s upcoming final exams and I will help you to get passed and I made her promise that she will not think that she should not work hard as I’m going to help her, she promised, later on, the result was announced and she got a good marks in math’s In which was had a compartment . After that, I never ever helped her and after passing the exam she came to me with a hamper of dairy milk chocolates with the beautiful smiling face. She seemed to be more confident.  At that point of time, I suggested her that I didn’t do anything for you, you passed yourself you just lacked the confidence that you can pass. Most of the time we need to make them realize that you can do this; I just literarily skipped that situation that her mother will kill her. I personally removed the fear from her.

Question : Both normal child and special child need?

Answer : in our school, there is a special faculty who deals with special children but I personally , indulge myself into playing with them, so that they cannot feel isolated, for making her safe and comfortable and I must share with you that once I had a special child she felt isolated so, she was very much introverts.  So I went in the class and offered her my friendship. She was shocked by I convinced her she accepted my proposal then I request her to come every day and wish me morning. She used to come and got in touch with me. And little by little she opened up and shares her problems. I better counselling her. It’s true that we teacher are having too much work to be completed we have shortage of time in which we can play with them. But when I get leisure times I happy interact with them like when I see them playing ball I rush and play with them. “Don’t feel then what he or she learns it is totally different.

Question :What steps do you follow?

Answer: First of all, keep her or him calm or match emotional integration. Her confidence in me hundred percent, I am talking about assurance should be genuine. She should not take it for granted. How I go into developing confidence within her it is totally my talent or potential. “Every time we need to be like we were at first time for mutual understanding or bonding.”       

Question : How do you build rapport with the students?

Answer: There are two faces of my personality; generally I am not what i show outside. Because I do lots of funny activities and amusements with my students. I personally feel that I am strict on side and soft at another side, despite of that passed out students come and meet me so, I feel like I am strict enough but students come because of my guidance they truly feel that I can help them out after school years Or suggestion them into the right direction. I don’t only shout on them but also love them, then they realize yes? Mam can do something better for me. And it’s true I can confidently fight with teachers as well as principal for the. I always stand by my students and do fight with them over intolerable issue or unclean condition. That I have few incidences that there are some parents who want their children to work inside home not only come to school when any scholarship distributes. So I personally scold their parents don’t send you children school for money oriented purpose give them conditions to bring credit of yourself. I take u what I had a students whose parents didn’t allow her child to take admission in college after 12^thstandard that her daughter would be corrupted and loss her innocence and I set my example and told I also graduated and post graduated from regular college its nothing but just a false assumption our schools children are from backward crowd. She was good at sport now she played sport at national level. Now she is a teacher in school. So, I feel good for her you made someone’s life special. I tell you one incidence

once I went to a health test in a nursing home, so a child called me mam, I felt she is my student and finally she run and there were alone line she went to doctor and said that doctor has to give me discount but I could afford. But she discounted me.  Money doesn’t make any difference. The satisfaction is more important.

Question : How do you talk with them to know their problems and give solution or suggestion?

Answer: There was a child of child of 8^th standard she never speak in the class at all, so I noticed her, otherwise eight class student cannot seat quietly because I crack jocks and poetry stories in the class to interact with students. For instance, I ask other students about their father’s occupation, I got to know hidden information about her life in addition to her background then one day I called her and offered her my friendship she felt different, I kept on asking her, she accepted my friendship and I told her that everyday u have to come to wish me good morning, because now onwards we are friends.  Later on, she used to come to wish me, not sharing her problems. Gradually, I found they are six sisters father is  security –guard , from economic point of view they are poor, one day I had my sight on her shirt it was torn off so I ask her to tell me ate what cost , she can buy a new shirt now every she comes and give me pleasant smile, I felt and feel so good or relaxed at that point of time and how she talk with me, so what happens some time we need to come close if you see, or observe any abnormality in school related to children behaviors  please actively react otherwise  a student can become a falling star and a teacher better understand the situation if they want.

Question:  How much do you take make them comfortable?

Answer: It is totally depend on student and different from person to person, some students open up slowly or some fast  there are few when you bring them at confidence level or show your affection they will start crying or weeping with stagnant feeling and they open up with you easily and start describe everything . there are many odd cases, like a father only stay with her old daughter and additionally addicted  to drinking alcohol, once he beaten her daughter and broken her tooth, so, this kind of problem also occurs. It’s really very difficult to deal with it.

Question: What measure do you take while talking (tone, comfort level?)

Answer: There is not measure as such but yes! Level of confidence or comfort level is very important specially tone of voice it should bot sarcastic or humors, not mature talk so that students feel nothing some to the level of students and do what you feel it best for students, yes! Tone of voice is important.

Question: Pictures of the counselor with the student while counseling/ talking or if they have any old photographs. 

Answer: We indirectly say stories with students in the class to make them think or share, make them relate their lives with shared stories indirectly we approach them to the student, I personally feel that every student should be honest with teacher, and consult with him or her so that right guidance or suggestions can be proposed soft corner, doesn’t show gender discrimination don’t idolize yourself, don’t say that you never failed. Being a teacher serve students give them answers of their problems rather than just avoid them.