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Educational placement
Educational placement represents an organised effort to match the qualification of individuals
plus personal interest and resources with the requirements of institutions and programmes.
Mostly school counsellors with responsibilities for college and other post secondary educational
placement provide information to students regarding institutional entrance requirements,
expenses, characteristics of the institution and programme contents.
Counsellors also frequently assist students in completing application forms for higher
institutions. For example, school counsellors help junior high school graduates to select their
senior secondary schools. They also help the senior high schools graduates to select their
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post—secondary schools or institutions taking into consideration their achievement, interest,
aspirations and their other individual support systems. For effective
placement the parents of the students must be consulted.
Many school counsellors are also involved in educational placement within the school. They do
this in consultation with the school head and the parents of the students. hi
I this capacity they are concerned with placing students in
appropriate courses or programmes. The counsellors also
help to determine the transition of students or pupils
form one class to another. For instance a child with a high intelligent quotient (1Q) can be
jumped over one class to another. The school counsellor also needs to help a child
who is to repeat a class to see the need to repeat the classl
The school counsellor also helps to orientate a student I
who has come to his school by transfer. As a counsellor.

he is also directly involved in deciding a class for students I on transfer. To be able to do this
counsellor needs a lot of I
data about each student to help him do good educational
placement. Career Placement Career placement is concerned with assisting students to enter into
occupations taking into consideration their , achievement, aptitude, interest and goals. In effect it
involves helping students to find suitable jobs. Tol
achieve this: students need a lot of information about careers in order to fit well in the world of
work after a programme of instruction or after schooling. The counsellor for instance should
provide students with career interest areas. This is fully treated in chapter seventeen..
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rial Placement
ial placement is planned to help develop social skills of
ldren. Children are placed in social groups that will ter social interaction and enhance self-
acceptance.
roup acceptance will promote activities and
Dperation among group members and such groups will
eate an atmosphere in which leadership skills may
velop. The school counsellor must try to find out which
locial clubs students like and try to encourage them to
1. The counsellor could suggest social clubs like debate
lbs, voluntary associations, friends of the earth,
e,ography club, Agricultural clubs to the students