Argues that all organizations include experiences and activities that can be described as teaching and learning, but despite being as intrinsic to and as firmly embedded in organization as learning, teaching has been ignored as an organizational process and needs attention in its own right. (Author/MKR)

The paper focuses on current curriculum programming trends that appear to be facilitating the transition of adolescents with handicaps into everyday community settings. Traditional curriculum models, such as the eliminative education model and the developmental education model, have failed to enhance or improve attainment of integration into the…

This guide describes two initiatives linking the school with the community: school-to-work and service learning. Section 1 provides a history of community education and the opportunity it provides for local citizens and community organizations to become active partners in addressing educational and community concerns. Section 2 describes the…

A growing number of schools are using community-based learning to apply classroom learning to the real world. In so doing, students acquire the skills to become successful problem solvers and lifelong learners. This guidebook offers a variety of ideas for introducing and using community-based learning in the classroom. The suggestions are designed…

This Resource Manual is one of the four components of "The Employer's Choice," a research-based, multimedia set of instructional materials to prepare students for job market success. ("The Employer's Choice" is part of the "Connections" package, which represents a synthesis of significant work on education and employment and presents a coordinated…

United Vocational Preparation (UVP) is a scheme or strategy organized in England to assist young people to make successful progress during the transition from school to work. It consists of courses and assistance to young workers on an individualized basis. This guide is intended to help educators to construct and conduct schemes of UVP. The…

This guide is for all school leaders, and pastoral care, support and teaching staff who work with young people who are preparing to move on from secondary schooling to the next stage in their lives. It is also for people who work in partnership with the school to support young people who are going into employment or continuing their learning, for…

This monograph, containing 24 articles by 11 authors, describes a number of practices that have shown promise for better connecting high school with the broader world beyond school. The monograph begins with "Connecting High School with the Real World" (Sandi Harwell, William Blank), which discusses the concept of "real life" and various ways of…

In October 1996, the Big Picture Company set out to find six urban high schools that use school-to-work strategies as a lever for whole-school reform. In the schools finally selected for the New Urban High Schools Project, and in others examined for the study, "school-to-work" is a misnomer, because the majority of students are entering…

Based on a program developed to help the integration of deaf persons into the world of work, this manual is intended to familiarize adult basic education (ABE) teachers with the special needs of deaf persons. Information is provided to answer questions such as: (1) What is so different about deaf students? (2) What is "deaf culture"? (3)…

This guide is designed to provide secondary teachers and administrators with the information necessary to adapt or develop a functional curriculum for children and youth who display academic difficulties. (A functional curriculum teaches functional skills in the most appropriate setting for specific skill acquisition.) It provides suggestions of…

Analyzes a research model entitled "The Professional Communications Network" and shows a step-by-step approach to implementing this model in writing courses that require technical research. Shows logical development of an average technical research paper and ends with an evaluation of the network by students. (EL)

Technical communications courses, which frequently present the research proposal as part of the report writing segment, rarely teach the grant proposal, even though it can provide the instructor with a vehicle for presenting such rhetorical strategies as audience analysis and persuasive writing. In addition to its problem solving structure, the…

The first of four sections of this guide contains reprints of the following: "But I've Been Doing This for Years: Informal Integration of Vocational and Academic Education Pilot Test Report" (Chris A. Roegge, Ahmed Ferej); "Curriculum Integration in School-to-Work Systems" (National School-to-Work Learning and Information Center); "Integrating…

This guide, part of a series designed to provide practical resources on topics critical to the process of preparing individuals with disabilities for adulthood, focuses on infusing real-life topics into existing elementary and secondary curricula. Chapter 1, "Teaching Real-Life Content," discusses the basic concepts and rationale for teaching life…