Approximately 300 school counselors, other educators, and guests from the state of Ohio met to discuss and evaluate the many services offered to school-age children by the helping professions. Eighteen workshop sessions are summarized in this report. These workshop sessions were concerned with the following: (1) sex education and the health…

The two concepts of individualized instruction in reading, prescriptive individualized instruction (IPI) and the individualized reading program (IRP), differ in the nature of their structures. The IPI program involves a progressive sequence of learning tasks which are accomplished at an individual's own rate. The IRP involves exploration and…

The counselor who can help a number of the teachers on his school staff to operate in a supportive manner, making classroom management decisions based on a flexible framework such as the one outlined here, is a counselor who is reaching many more students than one who operates from crisis to crisis. (Author)

This study suggests that students are poorly informed about nutrition and that health educators should reappraise what should be done in this area of education. (JD)

Counseling gifted preschoolers may prevent later underachievement and identify the need for intervention with children at risk for learning problems. Counseling goals include establishing a realistic self concept, helping children explore and label feelings, and coordinating resources for comprehensive assessment and intervention. (CL)

Fundamental beliefs and organizational structure represent an important part of comprehensive guidance programs serving students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. These programs help students gain competencies in the areas of personal/social, educational, and career development at all educational levels. Comprehensive programs guarantee that…

Social benefits can be thought of as aggregates of individual benefits, though with possible "snowball" effects. Potential social benefits of career guidance fall into the following two main categories: reducing social exclusion and enhancing social development. Guidance is a way of making the structure of society work, by linking…

The teacher's role in providing career information becomes part of his guidance function. The industrial arts teacher should incorporate career information about occupational clusters within his curriculum. (DS)

Discussion of material in "Discovery Through Guidance Series, designed for classroom teacher with guidance point of view. (Author)

Discusses difficulty of formulating questionnaires, proposes steps to be taken for adequate followup program. (CJ)

Supervisors must provide guidance services for agricultural education teachers. (GB)

Presented are some untested ways of increasing congruence between the practical applications and the theoretical idea of the guidance program. These ways involve communicating the guidance functions to teachers, students, administrators, parents, and community agencies. (Author)

This article specifies general activities in which counselors should engage. Each function is stated in the form of goals which should be attainable to some extent in any vocational education setting. It is hoped that both counselors and vocational educators will be in a better position to evaluate effectiveness of guidance in vocational technical…