Guidance office

Inventory Service: Inventory service is a continuous and developmental process of collecting, storing, and processing various data about students’ educational, personal, and social life. It is a process of identifying the needs of the school and students. It is equivalent to the need assessment stage of organizing a school guidance program.

Counseling Service: This service provides a platform for the school guidance counselor/ teacher to provide one-on-one, face-to-face assistance to students and teachers in overcoming educational, professional, and personal-social challenges. Counseling service can be done through individual and  group counseling. A conducive counseling office must also be set up for the school guidance. 

Information Service: The scope of guidance in schools also covers providing relevant, accurate, and timely information to students, parents and teachers that will help their total development in the school. Information to be provided to students includes education advancement, personal and social information, societal development, and the state of the nation. The counselor and guidance personnel must ensure that they are up-to-date with the changes in the world. It can be relayed on the assembly ground/ auditorium.

Placement Service: Placement services are provided when students are in the transitory phases of their lives. Placement is the process of matching students with roles, classes, environments, and schools that best fit them. Placement services can be provided both in the school setting and outside the school setting. 

Follow-up Service: Every school guidance service offered by the guidance personnel must be followed by effective follow-up.Follow-up is necessary for holistic evaluation which is used in determining how effective the guidance services are and what can be done to improve them. 

Orientation Service: Orientation services are provided to students to guide them in adjusting to the school environment and experiences. The programs, structures, facilities, and authorities available in the school and their uses are explained to new students. Orientation programs also prepare students psychologically and emotionally for school life. 

Referral Service: Referral is an act of transferring a client to another professional where they can be appropriately helped.  A good counselor must know when to refer cases that are beyond his expertise to the appropriate quarters. in more severe cases like disorders, whenever the school counselor notices that their intervention is not producing results, they should simply refer students to external and more intensive care for intervention. This admittance of weakness is a great strength that counselors need. 

Research and Evaluation Service: Research and evaluation service is not a one dose panacea. It is a continuous process and carried on in school from time to time. In this service various methods like survey and experimental methods may be employed to ascertain the effectiveness of different guidance ser­vices. It should be systematic and planned by which its goal can be achieved. It completes the entire process of guidance provided in the school. 

                  Prepared by: Bernadette C Careo