This staff development module is part of one of three groups of career guidance modules developed, field-tested, and revised by a six-state consortium coordinated by the American Institutes for Research. This module is designed for guidance personnel who work in counseling and guidance, particularly with student career development. The goal of…

Recent passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has rekindled debates on the responsibilities of postsecondary institutions to serve students with disabilities. This book provides a comprehensive guide to an institutional response to the ADA. It gives practical advice for responding to students and professionals with disabilities, and…

Prepared as the result of a revision of the vocational education curricula by members of the Western State Curriculum Council (American Samoa, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, and the Trust Territories of the Pacific), this guide is intended to help meet the needs of both students and a highly technical and rapidly changing society. It…

While the Louisiana State Department of Education does not mandate the total scope of career education programs offered at the local levels, it is essential that a common core of ideas be promoted in order to assess the statewide progress of the programs. The bulletin presents goals and objectives for career and occupational development for ages…

Career guidance techniques in this package focus on the competency area of valuing. The package is one of eight, each covering one of the following career guidance competencies that were identified and validated as needed by teachers to assist in the career development of their students: Valuing, decisionmaking, lifestyle, community resources,…

Part of the "Career Survival Skills Kit" (described in CE 001 445), the teacher's manual is geared to helping students develop a sense of self-awareness and learn a variety of career development concepts. It includes an introduction with preparation aids and thirty-nine exercises complete with behavioral objectives. The self-contained…

The Student Development Plan consists of a set of learning activity packages for teacher use in secondary school classrooms. It covers the following general areas as they relate to vocational development: (1) self awareness (four activities), (2) value clarification (10 activities), (3) career data and information seeking (four activities), and…

This guide is specifically designed to accompany materials developed for occupational orientation (particularly in Illinois) in the following five cluster areas: Applied biological and agricultural occupations; personal and public service occupations; health occupations; business, marketing, and management occupations; and industrial oriented…

Career guidance techniques in this package focus on the competency area of lifestyle. The package is one of eight, each covering one of the following career guidance competencies that were identified and validated as needed by teachers to assist in the career development of their students: Valuing, decisionmaking, lifestyle, community resources,…

This handbook is designed to serve as a tool to assist school and agency staff in implementing the Career Information System (CIS), a model interagency consortium designed to provide means of direct access to current career and labor market information, based in Oregon. The first section of the handbook discusses what is known about CIS and…