This guide has been developed as a resource to be used by and with youth in grades 9-12 and beyond. It will help them consider the following questions: What am I good at? How do I know my options? Should I take a year off or apply for some post-secondary program? Structured around the newly designed High School Students tab on the Alberta Learning…

Six course units and learning activities for the Career Planning and Decision-Making course is presented. The course emphasizes career comprehension, career values, and career action. Career comprehension includes developing knowledge of the world of work and planning and decision-making skills. Career values focus on clarifying, identifying, and…

This guide for high school-age students with mild disabilities encourages students to be involved in planning their future. Students complete exercises that promote their involvement in transition planning and help them start thinking about decisions for the future. Consideration is given to: the student's dreams for the future, supports for the…

This booklet explains the value of networking--a procedure for establishing connections, securing information, and making problem-solving bridges out of shared experiences of work. It advises looking for networking opportunities to discover career strategy techniques as well as to provide support and, perhaps, to find a new or better job. The…

These picture stimulus sets are part of the "Focus on the Future" package which presents a group career guidance activity for secondary students designed to bring to light traditional biases and stereotyped attitudes about male and female roles and to create an awareness of how such attitudes may influence work expectations and future family…

This manual consists of exercises to explore sex-role stereotyping as it affects work roles. They are intended to make young people aware of career opportunities in nontraditional fields. The 10 exercises include the following: values clarification; true-false quiz about sex characteristics and occupational requirements; character traits…

This workbook, aimed at students in the middle grades, was developed to help students plan for their futures. The workbook consists of three parts. Part 1 leads students to explore the world of careers. It includes information on career clusters and what workers in each type of cluster do. It also includes information on volunteer work and home…

This guide contains detailed instructions for classroom guidance activities in grades 7 through 12 to provide a continuous, sequential career development program. Instructional units with specific objectives, suggested activities, worksheets, handouts, forms, evaluations, and a bibliography are provided for each grade level. The seventh grade unit…

This student guide, to be used with the student's family, teachers, and school counselor contains a step-by-step process for determining appropriate career pathways related to the student's interests and abilities and careers that incorporate those characteristics. The career pathways identified in the guide are as follows: (1) arts,…

This document contains the teacher's guide and learner workbook for instructional units designed to provide practical knowledge and skills to help women who are reentering school fulfill their multiple roles. Titles of the instructional units are: What Tomorrow Will Bring; We're All in This Together; Who's Minding the Children? (Infants and…

The study of engineering can be likened to a game. To become a master student, one must not only play the game but devote time and energy to learning how to play it. The purpose of this book is to give students ideas and perspectives which must be addressed in order to be effective students. It focuses on the nonacademic aspects of being a…

This handbook is designed for student use in exploring the opportunities and challenges available in community colleges or four-year institutions. It could also be used by students interested in attending vocational-technical schools. The table of contents is designed as a checklist so that the booklet can be used as part of decision making. Part…

This handbook provides seven days of workshops in occupational skills training and counseling for developing career awareness and motivating career decision-making among transitional black women in the population of women who are underemployed, unemployed, undereducated, or poor, and who are unaware of educational or occupational opportunities…

This viewer guide describes Changing Channels, which uses satellite teleconferences to provide distance learning for students and educators throughout Missouri and the United States. This series of live interactive programs features successful women in high tech nontraditional jobs. The series is composed of five kits, each with two tapes and an…

This career education program for high-school students has been tested primarily with grade 11 students but is suitable for all students at the high school level. The program consists of five modules and a facilitator's manual--the student kit contains the five modules: (1) Self-explorations; (2) occupational choices; (3) supports for success; (4)…