The facilitator's guide introduces and explains an inservice program for administrators in career education. Consisting of eight additional modules, the program presents the administrator with an opportunity to examine career education, its implications for educational programs, and the various administrative functions affecting its…

Part of the Syracuse (New York) city school district's guided occupational orientation program, the document consists of a teacher's manual and a pre-post test answer key. The teacher's manual contains forms, data, and procedures for the teacher's use in instructing grade 6 pupils in individualized career studies in various occupations. Each…

The document presents supplementary material for the planning guide based on the results of a field test conducted in an urban school system and on comments from teachers, aimed at making the activities more relevant to student needs. Activities carried out in the four content areas are described, with teacher comments on their reception by the…

The model developed by the Computer Based Project for the Evaluation of Media for the Handicapped in Syracuse, New York to evaluate the use of captioned films for the deaf with mentally handicapped and emotionally disturbed children is briefly described, followed by a review of recent research conducted by the project staff. Among the areas which…

These evaluation activities are posttests on ethnicity, transnational linkages, and ethnocentric attitudes. The tests can be used to measure the content and skills that secondary students have acquired as a result of participating in the four units comprising the Ethnic Heritage Studies Curriculum. With a few minor modifications, the tests can…

This teacher's guide accompanies the solid-state electrical controls curriculum, an instructional program designed to upgrade the skills of coal mine electricians who work with mining equipment that has solid-state electrical controls. The guide describes the program components and suggests several implementation sequences for the twenty-one…

The New Opportunities for Work Exemplary Career Education Program (N.O.W.) guide is comprised of 25 world of work learning packages for grades K-6, two units on career education in art for grades K-6 and K-3, 14 minicourses designed for leisure time activities, and 19 learning packages on careers for grades 7-9. It concludes with a discussion of…

This guidebook concentrates primarily on describing the impact-assessment component of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I evaluation and reporting system for users of the system. Three general evaluation models are presented, along with implementation information for each. The first model, a norm-referenced design, may be…

The document is the first in a series of four competency-based inservice teacher education modules in consumer education. Each of the modules is self-contained and can be completed by teachers at their own rate. The main objective of the program is to assist curriculum developers and elementary and secondary classroom teachers as they plan,…

This handbook for trainers in consumer education contains three main sections: content outlines, learning activities, and resource materials. The areas covered by the content outlines are: financial management, consumer credit, and the consumer in the economy. The learning activities section comprises a sampling of the best activities identified…

The document is the second in a series of four competency-based inservice teacher education modules in consumer education. The main objective of the program is to assist curriculum developers and elementary and secondary classroom teachers as they plan, develop, implement, and evaluate a multidisciplinary consumer education program. The present…