This paper focuses on engaging and enabling educators to play new roles and take new leadership in the paradigm shift between traditional and competency-based education: a system of learning designed to ensure that all learners are prepared with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to be successful lifelong learners. The paper re-envisions…

This document contains teacher materials for a 4-unit, 1-year marketing education course in advertising and sales promotion offered in grades 11 and 12 in North Carolina. The preface contains a rationale for the development of the course, a course description, course objectives, a list of the instructional units of the course, and a list of the…

This business administration curriculum is designed to prepare an individual for entry into middle-management occupations in various businesses and industries. The first two chapters in the manual give an overview of business administration in the North Carolina community college system and the competency-based curriculum development project from…

This guide is intended for use in incorporating competency-based employability skills curricula into vocational and technical education programs. The guide is divided into five sections. The first is a competency listing that includes the competencies identified as necessary for students participating in an employability skills program and a…

This document contains teacher materials for a 6-unit, 1-year distributive education course in marketing tourism offered in grades 11 and 12 in North Carolina. Although in general the material presented concerns marketing tourism anywhere, some of it is specifically related to tourism within North Carolina. A purpose statement explains the…

A project was conducted in North Carolina to identify mathematics competencies in three selected vocational programs: consumer and homemaking education, business and office education, and marketing and distributive education; to develop subcompetencies to reflect the mathematics skills implied in the identified competencies; to validate the…

A project was conducted in North Carolina to identify science competencies in three selected vocational programs: consumer and homemaking education, business and office education, and marketing and distributive education; to develop subcompetencies to reflect the science skills implied in the identified competencies; to validate the…

The first of three volumes in a postsecondary secretarial science curriculum, this manual provides a systematic approach to analyzing the tasks performed by office workers in designing and developing secretarial science programs. Following an introductory chapter that describes the organization of the manual, chapter 2 outlines the…

This curriculum guide was developed as a resource for teachers to use in planning and implementing a competency-based instructional program on interior design and housing at the high school level. It contains materials for a 2-semester course, based on the North Carolina Vocational Education Program of Studies (revised 1992); it is designed to…

This set of six modules was designed for use primarily by health occupations teachers to help them teach and reinforce the basic science skills in their classes. Each module consists of an introductory page on which the teaching unit, training activities, unit objectives, and related competencies can be found. Most modules include worksheets to…

This teacher handbook provides recommended goals and objectives and suggested measures for the competency-based secondary home economics curriculum in North Carolina. The guide is organized in two sections. The first section consists of an overview of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and the competency-based curriculum. Information on…

This course outline provides local agencies with a guide to be used in North Carolina training programs for chore providers who provide supportive services to aging and disabled persons. Critical training areas as well as suggested training methods and materials are identified. An introduction provided general information on content, instructional…

This guide was developed to be used by consumer home economics teachers as a resource in planning and teaching a year-long course in parenting and child development for high school students in North Caroina. The guide is organized in units of instruction for a first semester course and a second semester course. Each unit contains a content…

The following papers are included: "Research and Teaching from the Web/Multimedia" (Swan); "Vocational Teachers' Attitude toward, Knowledge of, and Use of National Skill Standards" (Belcher, McCaslin); "Predicting the Leadership Effectiveness of Vocational Education Administrators" (Daughtry, Finch); "Coping…

This proceedings includes the following papers: "Dealing with Discipline Problems in Schools" (Allen); "Developing Global Awareness" (Arnold); "Desktop Publishing Using WordPerfect 6.0 for Windows" (Broughton); "Learn and Earn" (Cauley); "Using the Computer to Teach Merchandising Math"…