The document is part of a six-volume resource and planning guide for involving the community in career education. It presents a model for planning, organizing, and conducting staff development programs to involve the community in school-based career education. The program is designed to be of use to local and State education agencies and…

the document is part of a six-volume resource and planning guide for involving the community in career education. Specifically, the guide presents strategies, goals and resources for planning and implementing programs designed to involve parents in school-based career education programs. Parent involvement as a concept is an effort to insure that…

First of a six-volume package, the guide introduces a resource and planning program for school practitioners responsible for involving the community in career education. The program, designed for use in preservice or inservice training of educational personnel, includes models, references, and suggestions for developing programs to secure…

This learning module on developing local plans for vocational education (Part I) is one of six competency-based modules designed for both preservice and inservice education of vocational education administrators. It reviews legislative requirements for planning and discusses the role of the vocational administrator and other key personnel in the…

This learning module on developing local plans for vocational education (Part II) is one of six competency-based modules designed for both preservice and inservice education of vocational education administrators. It focuses on the last five steps of the comprehensive "Vocational Education Program Planning Model" presented in Part I (CE 016 511).…

This paper outlines the procedures used at the University of Cincinnati for establishing a field based elementary teacher education program in the form of a field guide. The first step involves a meeting with university faculty to discuss the implications of such a program. Step two involves meeting with the elementary school principal and selling…

Offers four lessons for teacher educators, drawing from literature on the global education movement and exploring linkages critical for effective programs. Teacher educators need global and discipline-specific knowledge. The article discusses conceptualization of global education; controversy; and national, international, and local contexts. (SM)

Providing a description of over two hundred current career oriented materials (e.g., brochures, catalog, guides, tests) related to the content and process of designing preservice course(s) in career development programming, this media supplement was developed to augment the lesson plans, goals, objectives, activities, and evaluation materials…

This learning module on organizing and working with a local advisory council is one of six competency-based modules designed for both preservice and inservice education of vocational education administrators. It provides a step-by-step approach to organizing a local advisory council, including gaining board of education approval and developing and…

This handbook documents efforts to promote the professional development school (PDS) concept at Western Michigan University (WMU) and examines how a university might initiate the restructuring process for teacher education and collabaorate with a local school district through the establishment of a PDS. It discusses the underlying principles of…

Intended to be utilized as an instructional unit in preservice or inservice vocational teacher education or as a part of a total performance-based teacher education program, this module is one of two modules developed to train vocational personnel how to install and manage competency-based instructional (CBI) programs. These two modules were…

This paper describes preservice and inservice training for the staff of the Responsive Care Program. The Responsive Care Program was designed to facilitate the development of children's social and cognitive repertoires. The Responsive Care Model was first implemented at Syracuse University with preschool children. Assumptions are that optimal…

One of three modules which form a model using a multi-media approach for an education department or teacher educator to infuse career education concepts into the pre-service curriculum, this module is designed to provide an opportunity for student teachers to become aware of the meaning, recommended principles, practices, and goals of career…

This handbook is intended as an aid to administrators in setting up a preschool program based on the Responsive Care Model and provides administrators with useful guidelines and resource materials. The Responsive Care Program was designed to facilitate the development of children's social and cognitive repertoires and was first implemented at…

Intended to be utilized as an instructional unit in preservice or inservice vocational teacher education or as a part of a total performance-based teacher education (PBTE) program, this module is one of two competency-based modules developed to train vocational personnel how to install and manage competency-based instructional (CBI) programs. The…