GUIDANCE IN A LARGE CITY A Dynamic Program as Developed in the Baltimore Public Schools

Abstract

Guidance must necessarily fall short of its full efficiency and value if it is left entirely to the counseling staff. This is no reflection on the counselors, whose part in this vital service of the schools is the most direct and certainly not the least important. It is becoming increasingly recognized that effective guidance calls for the cooperation of the teachers. But even so, the success of any guidance program depends in the well‐known last analysis on the understanding and sympathy, the encouragement and support, of the responsible administrative officer of the school system in which it operates. The superintendent of the Baltimore public schools is that kind of administrator. Here he tells how the guidance function is integrated with the educational work of the schools, and how guidance philosophy is translated into practical procedures and methods. He himself gives chief credit for the success of the Baltimore program to Leona C. Buchwald, Supervisor of Guidance, and her staff of counselors. The work has been under the general direction of Charles W. Sylvester, Director of Vocational Education, who cooperated in the preparation of this article.