La Salle Peru Township High School - Ell Ess Pe Yearbook (La Salle, IL)

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l GE THE BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL COUNSEL A Personnel Service in The La Salle-Peru Township High School and Junior College La Salle, Illinois. Board of Education I ELL ESS PE Bureau ol' Educational Counsel Dircclor Ifonuxrlnrl qPxy.-hmm Smal Il'nrkrr1 uzfiuzw qr mmf,-I I ALL STUDENTS Pxyi hnlaygiml I Sofia! l I Group lnlclligcncc Tcsls Conlaci Interi'iew I ' 9-E I I Ilcnlal Health Lectures I I 1 I I xsiQmn0g.f..1 I sfniuar- V Healrh 7 lumen' 'xmiaun I B h Jumlr v-I ship I I H5-gm: K ' I 1 al Plans I ' ' I I I I Selection for Follow-Up Social Case Work Guidance Service l I I AI I I I . I I SQQMIAI I Psyu-infif I I lblfmog' I IPhysimlI I I I I H mi I I Ethical I Advisory Smrirc Soma ea Educational I Yucalianml I I for I I JUVENILE RESEARCH I ILLINOIS INSTITUTE I I i-............... U.. . .. ..... ..,..J

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ELL ESS PE THE BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL COUNSEL ' The Bureau of Educational Counsel, now in its fourth year of activity, is attracting considerable attention throughout the country. The reason is that it represents a new and successful experiment in student personnel activity. From the beginning, the aim has been the careful study of the individual student with general emphasis on the study of behavior and the development of personality. The unique features as compared to student personnel departments in other schools and colleges are: individual attention to all students, major emphasis on the superior and average student, and a working program based on mental hygiene principles. The accompanying chart illustrates the procedure and organization. Every student is given an intelligence test, after which he is interviewed by a counselor on the subjects of scholarship, health, hygiene, interests, vocational plans, and behavior. Through the review of psychological and social data, the student's resources and limitations are discovered and guidance is better effected. The type and degree of guidance required for each student vary. With some it is confined largely to educational or vocational guidance, whereas with others the emphasis may be on ethical or social aspects or on health' problems. However, the real goal of guidance is not to dictate detailed plans that a student must follow, but rather to help one to a better understanding of his assets and liabilities so that guidance on the part of a counselor becomes self-guidance by the student. In this student personnel work the Bureau has the advantage of skilled advisory service from the Illinois Institute for Juvenile Research of Chicago. Students may consult with expert psychiatrists and psychologists who visit the school regularly. Requests for such interviews have increased each year and it is a noted fact that these requests come largely from the superior students. From an achievement point of view, the current year has been an important one in the development of the Bureau. On the service side, the individual at- tention to students has been enlarged and intensified by the appointment of an assistant. On the research side, the achievement is in the form of a fifty-two page report covering the activities of the Bureau for the first three years. Among the statistics found in the report for the years IQ23-T926 the following are quoted: Total number of psychological examinations . . 41 Total number of psychiatric interviews ...... 104 Total number of student interviews . . . . 2796 Total number of other interviews .... I4O Total number of home visits ......... 270 Total number of other visits ......... 207 Total number of interviews and visits . . . 34I3 PAGE 15