A project was conducted to develop a Career Education Teacher Training Corps model for local district staff development and district program planning and development. Seven training modules were developed which provide a comprehensive planning and staff development system that can be adapted for use in a variety of educational settings. These…

A project was undertaken to (1) develop a prototype for installing career education in two regions of the Detroit Public Schools through staff development activities, (2) monitor the involvement level in local schools in these regions, and (3) assist each school on an ongoing basis to plan for effective career education implementation. The first…

A career preparation program (CPP) at Alma College, Alma, Michigan, intended to strengthen career planning services, add new programs supporting and augmenting liberal arts program strengths, more effectively integrate educational progress with plans to enter the world of work, and develop faculty career planning skills and liaison with business,…

This report discusses the third year of a career education project that intended to aid school districts in establishing a collaborative relationship with business, labor, industry, and professional groups within the community and in obtaining permanent local financing of career education programs and to create a cadre of career education…

A work conference titled "Planning to Implement Career Education" was developed as one of several scheduled activities of the project, State Leadership in Implementing Career Education (see CE 024 346). The target population of the work conference was the state coordinators of career education and state plan directors. Thirty persons,…

A project was conducted to infuse and implement career education in a postsecondary setting based on the following objectives: (1) to demonstrate to faculty at the University of Maine at Orono the philosophy, concepts and practices of career education in post-secondary settings via a structured seminar series; (2) to develop twenty-six career…

The School-Community Collaboration Project was conducted to train personnel to infuse career education elements into the ongoing educational process and to increase the involvement of parents and the employment community in the process. Five Massachusetts school systems participated in the project, including fifty-four educational personnel and…

This document contains the final and evaluation reports of a Central Savannah River Area Cooperative Educational Services Agency (CSRA CESA) career education project to effect incremental improvements in elementary, junior high, and senior high schools in the Columbia County School System. The final report describes these major activities:…

This document contains the performance report, evaluation, and appended materials of a project to develop and implement a career exploration internship for physically handicapped students involving industry participation and educational support. The performance report discusses activities, including staff hiring, internship site development,…

This guide was prepared to assist state directors/coordinators of career education in becoming more knowledgeable about management and evaluation. The purposes of the guide are to define managementand identify basic functions, review characteristics of managers, and identify evaluation techniques available to help managers do a better job. The…

The Indianapolis Cities in Schools program determined that a comprehensive career education program could best provide the vehicle for coordinating and implementing the education, programmatic, and social service components of the program at Arsenal Technical High School. Major goals were to be infusion of career education materials into existing…

A project was conducted to (1) determine how to install comprehensive career education programs on a districtwide basis when development and field testing have been completed, and (2) determine how to transport effective career education programs from school districts that have them to school districts that need them. Project objectives were met…

Based on concepts and approaches resulting from the development of a series of Native American Career Education instructional units in a previous project, this project was designed to assist educational staff and Indian community members at four sites to initiate development of career education programs that would use available resources and…

Designed to facilitate the emulation of exemplary components of the South Burlington School District (Vermont) program to develop a teacher training model for the implementation of career education, these six modules include guidelines for inservice programs and workshops, handouts, transparencies, and reference materials. An Introduction to…

A project conducted by the Council of Chief State School Officers was designed to meet the following objectives: (1) to maintain, develop, and further improve the communication system so that essential information relating to career education might be more effectively communicated between and among the states and extra-state jurisdictions and…