Its Definition

Is defined as the formalized actions the school takes to make guidance operational and available to students So planned as to make possible individual consideration of changing interest, modification of choices, subsequent adjustments and assessments of interest, aptitudes, financial liabilities and assets.

1. Choice of Occupation 2. Problems of educational guidance

a) Poor study habits b) Excessive co-curricalar activities c) Cheating d) Changed sense of values

3. Problems of student discipline 4. Social Maladjustments 5. The problem of the superior student 6. Drop-outs

1. Appraisal

- it is designed to collect, analyze and use variety of objective and subjective personal, psychological and social data about pupils to achieve understanding of pupils as well as assist to themselves.

2. Informational- designed to give students a greater knowledge of educational, vocational, and personal, social opportunities so that they may make informed choices and decisions in an increasingly complex society. 3. Counseling - designed to facilitate self-understanding and selfdevelopment through small group relationship. 4. Consulting - designed to give technical assistance to teachers, administrators and parents to help them to be more effective. 5. Planning,Placement,Follow-Up- enhance the development of students 6. Evaluation - designed to determine the effectiveness of the program.

Interpreting and making known institutional objectives to prospective students and parents. as well as to the secondary schools

2. Selecting and admitting students in cooperation.

with schools secondary 3. Orienting students to each new phase of college life. 4. Providing diagnostic service. 5. Assisting students in selecting course of instruction. 6. Enlisting the cooperation of the family of the student in so far as his educational accomplishments and personality development. .

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Determining the physical and mental health status of the student.

8. Providing an adequate school services

9. Supervising, evaluating and developing the students social life activities.

10. Assisting students in need of part-time employment 11. Keeping a cumulative record of information and making it available to proper parties 12. Maintaining high morale.

14. Assisting the student in finding the appropriate employment 15. Cultivating the loyalty and support of the alumni in the community.

16. Coordinating all these services and carrying on research and studies, in order to improve the guidance program.

A. External Evaluative Characteristics (EEC)

a) A counselor-student ratio of 1 full time counselor for 250 to 300 students. b) Counselors are qualified for their positions. c) Appropriate, usable records are maintained d) Informational materials are present & accessible.

e) Appraisal data are available & used by school personnel

f) Personnel are self- evaluative and experimentally oriented. g) Effective guidance program are not confined to one grade level, but throughout the entire span of the pupils school career.

h) Adequate physical facilities are available for guidance.

B. Internal Evaluation Characteristics (IEC)

a) Guidance program praised by others,are based on pupils need b) Guidance programs of real merit balance corrective, preventive and developmental functions c) Quality programs are purposeful d) Balance is an essential quality of good organization

e) Program Stability
f) Flexibility in the sense of adaptability to future growth. g) The staff of guidance programs that have achieved recognition and praise have high morale and work cooperatively h) The students who are not part of good guidance program are not nameless and faceless to the counselor i) A characteristics of high praised programs, is that leadership is exercised by the individual