Importance Of Guidance And Counselling Service In High School: A Study On Opinion Of Teachers And Students

Abstract

Guidance and counselling service provides the students assistance for directing their academic and personal life. To get Excellency and proper adjustment in the institution and the society, these services are useful to realise one’s own self and aim to go forward. In school education, a student faces many challenges and sometime they cannot cope up with the challenges in an appropriate manner to solve them and this is due to lack of proper guidance. Students face problems on performance, choices of subjects, scoring good, competition, and interpersonal relation with teacher and peers. But due to loss of proper guidance they develop maladjustments. Then how can we create a balanced future with them, if they cannot develop a balanced personality. So there is a need of guidance and counselling service to adolescents so that they can tackle the problem smoothly and can run their life and career effectively. This paper is an attempt to study the importance of guidance and counselling service in high school education and provides some remedial solution for the implementation of the service. With the help of cluster sampling methods, 10 high schools are selected for the study and data were collected from the students of 9, 10, 11 and 12^th standards. 60 students were selected as a sample and 30 teachers were selected to collect the data. Quantitative data were collected through a questionnaire from the students and qualitative data were collected from the school teacher to get some valuable opinion regarding importance of school guidance and counselling service.