CHAPTER IX The Classroom Teacher's Role în Guidance

EARLIER issues of the REVIEW have deplored the lack of basic research in guidance and counseling. This lack of research is still evident, particularly when dealing with the role of the teacher in guidance. There is some possi-bility, however, that guidance workers have become so used to saying that there is no research in the field that they ignore the steadily increasing accumulation of evidence that does exist. In the past three years, much of what has been written on the role of the teacher in guidance is opinion, but this opinion cannot be dismissed as being of little value. A great deal of it is based on years of experience and practice. Behind much of the opinion, there is a hard core of solid, altho admittedly disorganized, evi-dence. Teachers as Guidance Workers One of the major findings of the past few years is evidence to indicate that the teacher can function as a guidance worker, is in many schools functioning as a guidance worker, and, to be completely effective, mus