In traditional preservice teacher education programs, education courses are "add-ons" to science content courses. As a result, future teachers are taught the importance of authentic inquiry and constructivism, but they may never learn science in the way they are expected to teach it. University of California San Diego's California Teach…

The article describes one teacher's innovative attempt to involve 10 visually impaired adolescents in a public day school in "Career Month," an activity to assist them in making realistic career choices. (Author/CL)

The Purdue Mentor Program uses role models for higher-level occupations in business, professions, or management for gifted and talented children in grades 4-12. Students have an opportunity to learn about fields which fit their talents. (CL)

This paper describes a career awareness program in psychology sponsored by the Central New York Psychology Association and Hutchings Psychiatric Center, in association with the Exploring Division of the Boy Scouts of America. The Exploring program is described as a coeducational program which seeks to provide young people between the ages of 14…

The conceptual foundation for the career education program in Guam is presented in the document, which can serve as a resource for others wishing to implement similar programs. Rationales for the four-phase system (awareness, exploration, preparation, and continuing) are discussed in terms of students, teachers, administration, and society. They…

The report presents a literature review on the advantages and disadvantages of infusion vs. separate programing in career education for hearing impaired students. The need for separate programing at the mid-high school state is supported, in order to draw together the career related strands which have been previously infused into the total…

Career education is probably best described as a group of concepts and processes, including career awareness, career exploration, infusion of career-oriented material with traditional educational resources, hands-on involvement, and participation in education by people normally employed in the world of work. Vocational education is simply one…

Summarizes some of the technical and professional challenges that engineers have overcome as they endeavor to clarify the image of engineering as that of a profession. Recommends educational changes to assure societal leadership from engineers. (CS)

This final report of a 3-year project to introduce career education concepts into the schools of rural southeast Arkansas includes background information, descriptions of program variables, the third-party evaluation, and a followup study in vocational guidance. The report notes that program activities in grades K-7 focused on increasing students'…

Video Job Shadows encourages students to develop questions about a job and offers them the chance to videotape a business person answering those questions about his or her job. The program can be an effective method of teaching high school students about the world of work and the specific requirements and responsibilities of some jobs in their…

This report presents a broad overview and assesses the effectiveness of the summer 1984 pilot of the Summer Training and Education Program (STEP). Chapter I provides a general introduction. These three program objectives are cited: increase participants' level of achievement, increase their ability to make responsible decisions about sexual…

A project was designed to expand the career guidance, counseling, placement, and follow-up services for early school leavers and adults in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A project coordinator met with staff at various schools to develop ways to expand career service for early school leavers. Students with high rates of absenteeism or discipline problems…

This manual describes how to set up and operate a pretrial intervention program for female first offenders which offers an intensive career counseling service and puts emphasis on placing participants in nontraditional jobs. Divided into three sections entitled--The Way It Is; What You Can Do; and How You Assess It--the guide gives an overview of…

Program Methods and Materials for Training Career Educators (Project FOCUS) established and accomplished three major objectives: (1) to identify, select, and provide inservice career awareness staff development training for elementary school teachers; (2) to design, develop, and evaluate a replicable, exportable, and practical staff development…

Focuses on the following aspects of the WENDI (Women's Education Development Incentive) program at Brevard Community College (Florida): its history, objectives, service population, emphasis on introducing careers in nontraditional fields, and specific aspects of the delivery system. Relates the program to various studies of women's programing.…