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CHAPTER . IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL CONTENT AND METHOD

Pupil guidance is one of the important functions whereby a school achieves its educational objectives. Its aim is to improve the pupils' social traits and behavior as well as to develop the personality, character and ability of individual pupils. It is designed for the better development of individual pupils rather than specifically to prevent problem children or delinquents. It should result in making school life meaningful both to individual pupils and to groups such as classes, grades and the whole school. It covers educational, personal, social, moral, vocational and health guidance among others and is usually provided for each of these areas separately, but for the better development of the pupil's personality, all of these areas of guidance should be conducted in a comprehensive manner.

Each school must have teachers specifically responsible for pupil guidance, vocational guidance, and health guidance. The Five-Year Plan started in 1969requires that lower secondary schools with eighteen or more classes be given favorable consideration in terms of the number of teachers, in light of the load of teachers responsible for pupil guidance.

The central government has been conducting lecture courses on pupil guidance, training courses for lower secondary school counselors, and courses on vocational guidance to upgrade the competence and skills of teachers responsible for guidance.

However, the further development of competent guidance teachers is becoming an important task.

Table 34. Number of Teachers Responsible for Pupil Guidance in Public Elementary, Lower Secondary and Upper Secondary Schools, 1969