This document is one of three products developed as part of a 2-year project designed to increase the motivation of minority young women to pursue occupations and careers that will be in demand in the future. It is hoped that these products will help schools and businesses to cooperate in conducting a mentoring program. This ideabook was written…

This document is one of three products developed as part of a 2-year project designed to increase the motivation of minority young women to pursue occupations and careers that will be in demand in the future. It is hoped that these products will help schools and businesses to cooperate in conducting a mentoring program. It provides guidelines for…

This handbook is intended to help communities (particularly, but not exclusively, in Pennsylvania) develop adopt-a-school partnerships between local schools and businesses. Advantages of partnerships for both schools and their potential business partner are reviewed, and brief profiles of possible cooperative projects (many of which have already…

Strategies for implementing career exploration programs into schools and cooperating hosts from business and industry are suggested in this short booklet. Content is presented in outline form and covers the following three topics: Organization of Guidelines for Exploration of Business and Industry (Schools--communication, preparation of students,…

This guide to community education offers strategies and suggestions for responding to the call for more community involvement in partnership efforts that will benefit education and society. First, a brief introduction summarizes the philosophy of community education, defining it as a belief that learning is lifelong and that self-help efforts…

The purpose of this practical guide is to increase the awareness of both educators who are responsible for building school partnerships and corporate leaders as to how school partnerships can contribute to education. Kinds of school/business partnerships are discussed, and the services provided by partners are listed. These steps in establishing…

One of eight sections of a handbook for use by vocational teacher educators in improving vocational teacher education linkage with business, industry, and labor, this third section is designed to promote the use of the cooperative internship approach to utilizing resources of the private sector. (Cooperative internships, as defined here, encompass…

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…

This handbook offers a succinct discussion of inservice training programs for noninstructional school personnel. The booklet is intended for use primarily by school business officials and was developed for that purpose from a doctoral dissertation on inservice training written by Dr. Donald K. Sorsabal. Separate chapters of the booklet examine the…

One of eight sections of a handbook for use by vocational teacher educators in improving vocational teacher education linkage with business, industry, and labor, this seventh section focuses on the various ways private sector resource persons may be effectively selected and utilized by vocational teacher education institutions. (Resource persons,…

One of eight sections of a handbook for use by vocational teacher educators in improving vocational teacher education linkage with business, industry, and labor, this first section focuses on use of staff development programs as a means to increasing faculty interaction with the private sector. Although the guidelines are intended for use by…

One of eight sections of a handbook for use by vocational teacher educators in improving vocational teacher education linkage with business, industry, and labor, this sixth section deals with the use of site visit experiences for promoting vocational teacher education department linkages with the private sector. (Site visits, as defined here,…

Ideas, examples, resources, and references for use by those interested in promoting collaborative educational efforts in their community are presented in this manual. Three major purposes of the guide are to bring together current materials on school-community cooperation; to assist in improving the quality of present collaborative efforts; and to…

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, community members representing business and industry, and…

Prepared to assist school staff in the development of community resources in the career education process, the document provides suggestions and guidelines for the recruitment of community resource personnel to help orient students to the world of work. The program implemented by Prince George's County Public Schools, Maryland, serves as the basis…