Suggests strategies to guide elementary school counselors who are implementing developmental guidance programs. These include sharing the responsibility with teachers, targeting populations and students, reaching the largest number of students possible, mobilizing peer facilitators, managing counselor time, and being accountable. (ABL)

Based on author's experiences working with three school districts that wanted to improve counseling programs, this article discusses precipitants of change efforts, barriers to change, and the role of the consultant. The change process described focuses on assessment, goal setting, and strategy development. (NB)

Describes the overall evaluation framework that is guiding Missouri's efforts to evaluate comprehensive school guidance programs. Views evaluation as ongoing process designed to improve guidance program. Discusses program, personnel, and results evaluation in an outcome-based framework guided by five questions. (Author/NB)

Surveys 2,045 secondary students and 267 teachers in Hong Kong to explore their perceptions about school guidance. Assent by both groups to proactive and development guidance, with some reservations about remedial guidance, was revealed. Both groups affirmed the role of teachers in individual guidance. (MKA)

Not all Resident Assistants experience burnout; however, the numerous responsibilities, conflicting roles, and other demands of a 24-hour-per-day job combined with their own schoolwork make RAs particularly vulnerable. Participants (N=57) completed a questionnaire and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Findings suggest that RAs on first-year floors…

Catalog shopping behavior of younger and older adolescents was compared. Results indicated that "tweens" were more concerned with style, brand name, and fashion than were older students. This supports previous findings indicating that the tween years are a time when peer pressure and "fitting in" are very important. (Author/EMK)

This qualitative study investigated Hong Kong teachers' perception of a whole-school approach to guidance and its practice. Findings revealed that teachers perceived a whole-school approach as fostering student development and as a system of management. Teacher dedication, communication, and team spirit were considered as facilitating factors for…

Relatively little policy activity has focused on the key role of counselors in providing the guidance students need to make informed decisions about their post-high school options. This issue of "Progress of Education Reform" takes a closer look at research related to: (1) The variation in access of college counseling across schools and the impact…

The "Planning for Life Recognition Program" is dedicated to providing career guidance practitioners with tangible examples of effective career planning tools and methods to improve and expand their programs. A variety of career planning program ideas are presented in this compendium. Information from 12 applications chosen by the 1998 review team…

This report examines Kentucky's experimental elementary guidance programs, which were funded in 1988 and evaluated in the second year of the 2-year experimental program. In the second year, data were gathered from counselors, teachers, students, and parents; the data are presented in this document. The first section, "Effective Elementary…

This book describes three guidance programs which have a solid conceptual foundation and have been field validated through extensive and successful use in school programs across the country. The first chapter presents "The Comprehensive Guidance Program Model" by Norman C. Gysbers. This guidance program model reintegrates guidance into the…

The educational reform movement of the past several years has forced all educators to critically examine both their current and perceived roles. The following model addresses the issues of a changing clientele, a changing society, and a changing expectation of the duties of school guidance counselors. The first requirement of a new scheduling…

This document presents 16 domains and goals of a school district's guidance curriculum from kindergarten through grade 12. The goals described indicate that the program will help students to: (1) understand and respect themselves, including physical and mental health, physical and intellectual development, and personality development; (2)…

This document describes a high school guidance program in which teachers are the primary advisors. A description of the advisor-advisee program includes the following information: (1) an explanation of the need for high quality guidance programs despite the lack of staff; (2) a description of the advisement function and its particular services;…

This document presents a report evaluating the K-12 comprehensive guidance program of the San Diego City Schools which emphasizes findings of the evaluation. The description of the methodology of the study indicates that various surveys and instruments were used to collect data at the elementary and secondary level from administrators, head…