This third in a series of five learning modules on guidance is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers skills needed to (1) plan effective student conferences, (2) create a supportive environment and display the kind of attitude that will foster communication and promote useful results, (3) help students identify and clarify problems or concerns, consider alternatives, plan possible solutions, and (4) recognize problems that need to be referred. The terminal objective for the module is to use conferences to help meet student needs in an actual school situation. Introductory sections relate the competency dealt with in this module to others in the program and list both the enabling objectives for the four learning experiences and the resources required. Materials in the learning experiences include required reading, self-check quizzes, model answers, case scripts to critique, model critiques, and the teacher performance assessment form for use in evaluation of the terminal objective. (The modules on guidance are part of a larger series of 100 performance-based teacher education (PBTE) self-contained learning packages for use in preservice or inservice training of teachers in all occupational areas. Each of the field-tested modules focuses on the development of one or more specific professional competencies identified through research as important to vocational teachers. Materials are designed for use by teachers, either on an individual or group basis, working under the direction of one or more resource persons/instructors.) (JT)