This guide to integrating academic and vocational education is the result of extensive research and experimentation at four pilot sites throughout Texas. The introductory section outlines the project philosophy and activities and describes the pilot sites. Examined in a background section are the origin and nature of integration, important…

The author discusses a career decision-making program which she designed and implemented using a pyramidal model of exploration, crystallization, choice, and classification. Her article outlines the value of rigorous evaluation techniques applied by the local practitioner. (MF)

This Handbook was developed for statewide dissemination to K-12 counselors and teachers in Nebraska, for use in a comprehensive career guidance and counseling program. The activities described in the handbook are developmental and sequential, and they address learning, personal/social, and career guidance goals from elementary through senior high…

This manual is designed to provide information and structural exercises for teachers who assist adults in career advising and career development. The materials, which can be shared with students individually or in small groups, are based on needs of adult students identified from the literature and from local needs assessment surveys. Topics…

This manual is designed to assist administrators and counselors in adult basic education programs in implementing the group career counseling model. Section I focuses on administering adult career counseling centers. Topics include establishing a service and managing a center. A checklist for administrators is provided for use as a reference in…

Distributive education teachers who use competency-based instruction must help students narrow their career choices to one or a few so that the chosen competencies can be developed from specific competency learning packets. Career counseling, classroom storage and display of career and competency-based materials, and classroom management are…

This extensive kit provides guidance materials for use with elementary school students. The first five sections of the kit include structural and programmatic component descriptions; directions on implementing the Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Program Model; discussion on involving administrators and teachers; and information on evaluating the…

This extensive kit provides guidance materials for use with secondary school students. The first five sections of the kit include structural and programmatic component descriptions; directions on implementing the Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Program Model; discussion on involving administrators and teachers; and information on evaluating the…

This package is the fourth of twelve in the Skills for Adult Guidance Educators (SAGE) system, which provides instruction in a set of necessary competencies specifically designed for adult education counselors, teachers, and paraprofessionals. The materials provide a process for developing and implementing counseling and guidance programs unique…

This training handbook is a companion volume to "Using Labor Market Information in Career Exploration and Decision Making: A Resource Guide." It is designed for use in a workshop format to introduce the resource guide to counselor educators who will use it as a primary or supplementary text for college courses in career development or…

This manual is a gaming simulation that career development professionals can use to promote awareness of and sensitivity to the job search experience encountered by their clientele. Goals of the simulation are to approximate a real life job search experience from different perspectives, while at the same time making it fun and interactive. Players…

This extensive kit provides guidance materials for use with middle school students. The first five sections of the kit include structural and programmatic component descriptions; directions on implementing the Missouri Comprehensive Guidance Program Model; discussion on involving administrators and teachers; and information on evaluating the…

Developed by participants in a counselor educator conference, this manual is designed to provide performance-based life career counseling instructional materials for vocational counselor training. Two introductory chapters present a brief description of the genesis and evolution on the concept of life career counseling and a model for evaluating a…

This training program is a model for recruiting and training counselors to address the career development and educational planning needs of current employees. Section A is directed to the instructor who will train counselors to provide career development assistance to employees of an organization. It describes the program concept and discusses…

This teacher's manual is one volume of a six volume curriculum for the secondary level, designed to provide a systematic, group-oriented approach to decision-making in areas crucial to adolescent development: work, drug (substance) use and abuse, sexuality and social relationships, people and government, and juvenile law. The decisions about work…