Mastering life skills such as financial management, career development, cooking, and self-care is important for young and emerging adults as well as older patrons. This book guides libraries towards providing programs and activities that help their users expand these life skills and accomplish their goals. Between making financial decisions,…

This toolkit is designed to guide school staff in strengthening partnerships with families and community members to support student learning. This toolkit offers an integrated approach to family and community engagement, bringing together research, promising practices, and a wide range of useful tools and resources with explanations and directions…

An instructional system is presented for building the competencies of adult basic education students in making consumer decisions, and offers a guide to teachers who wish to design their own decision-making problems for students. The first four chapters provide a brief introduction, discuss the rational consumer decision-making process and the…

The document presents teacher developed ideas for helping students gain skills in the process of decision making through individual and/or group activities. Individual activities are: (1) your own values, (2) case studies on honesty, (3) skills in helping others understand you as a person, (4) anxiety about future or conflict with parental wishes…

The teaching module is part of a set designed to help educators infuse career education concepts into the existing curriculum. The module is organized to help students on the K-3 level develop awareness of the decision-making process. The first learning sequence of the module deals primarily with basic understandings and vocabulary related to…

This packet is a career development teaching guide on decision-making developed for high school teachers. A brief introduction to skillful decision-making is followed by five lessons on decision-making. Each lesson includes one or more of the following: goal, behavioral objectives, teaching activities, and teaching procedures (includes content and…

Career guidance techniques in this package focus on the competency area of decisionmaking skills. 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…

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…

The objectives of this course are (1) to assist each participant with the development of a consciousness about the future and the impact of change; (2) to assist each participant in discussing and assessing the implications of change and future shock in our present times; and (3) to stimulate each participant's creative abilities as to how the…

This unit on decision-making and discussion skills is the second of five units in a ninth grade social studies course (course described in SO 010 891). There are two major objectives: (1) given a problem, the student will make value judgments using decision-making skills; and (2) using proper discussion techniques, the student will analyze a…

This unit on economic decision-making is the third of five units in a ninth grade social studies course (see SO 010 891 for course description). Major objectives are to help students analyze alternative choices in consumer decision situations and defend the selections; evaluate information and make decisions about what to produce, how to produce,…

The Career Education for Women workshop is divided into six three-hour sessions; the leader's manual duplicates the participant's, with the addition of suggested procedures and appropriate remarks, and a listing of sources for materials. Although the leader is encouraged to adapt the presentations, the basic order of the workshop should be…

The participant's portfolio contains a wide and rich variety of resource materials, tests, exercises, and activities designed to provide an orderly process for self-understanding and an understanding of the world of work, in a six-session career workshop for women. Moving step-by-step through the workshop sessions and through between-session…

The mid-intermediate elementary level curriculum guide on consumerism is designed to help students better define their own value system, develop an improved decision-making procedure, evaluate alternatives in the marketplace, and understand their consumer rights and responsibilities. The guide contains five sections related to five major…

Two separate sections, one for grades K-3 and the other for grades 4-6, describe career education activities related to five developmental goals; the uniqueness of one's self; personal qualities and attitudes affecting careers; wide varieties of career choices; and decision making skills. Preliminary materials list 15 career clusters and also…