The Chicago Careers for Youth Program facilitates visits by persons working in various career clusters to classrooms to explain their jobs and the qualifications for them. The visitors serve as role models for the youth with whom they interact. The program is based on 16 career clusters that were defined by several hundred persons with careers in…

A three-part evaluation plan is presented for the occupational clusters approach to career orientation project, which attempted to design and field-test a two-semester curriculum package for orienting junior high students to the world of work. Project effectiveness will be estimated at three points in its development. In the laboratory setting…

The summary report is an outgrowth of a 1972 meeting of the National Advisory and Review Committee of the California State Department of Education, Vocational Education Section. The principal intent of the report is to provide project staff and consultants insight into the problems of career development for public service occupations, as well as…

In developing secondary level curriculum materials for the hospitality and recreation occupational cluster the following procedures were followed. An advisory panel was established and utilized to review preliminary plans, the draft materials, and the final curriculum. The hospitality and recreation cluster was analyzed to define its internal…

A project conducted by Tarboro City Schools (North Carolina) involved the development of an individualized curriculum, suitable for students in grades 7, 8, and 9. Emphasis for the project was on using the most effective components of different approaches from across the State to meet the State's goals for occupational exploration, while providing…

The final report of the year long Interdisciplinary Support Classes Project at Banks High School, Banks, Oregon, is presented. Six cluster and noncluster staff members were involved in jointly developing and improving student instruction through interdisciplinary approaches. Outcomes for the 300-310 students in grades 9-12 included the development…

The 1-year project undertaken June 1, 1972, established as its goals the development of: (1) vocational awareness programs for grades preschool to sixth, (2) programs related to 15 occupational clusters for grades 7-10, and (3) vocational preparation programs for grades 11-12. Eight high schools, 10 junior high schools, and 47 elementary schools…

Florida's Division of Vocational Education has revamped its educational program structure. Under the new "cluster" structure, students become more widely employable than in the past, and the labor market benefits from their additional, broad-based skills. (Author)

The potential impact of the implementation of cluster programs in trade and industrial/technical education in Colorado was examined through a review of literature on cluster programs in the United States, a national survey of 51 state supervisors of vocational education (VE), and a survey of 196 local vocational directors in Colorado. The national…

A project was designed to develop curricula in manufacturing occupations for grades 9 through 12, and to test, modify, reproduce, and disseminate the results. To enhance the dimensions of the operation a committee from Fairleigh Dickinson University and the New Jersey State Department of Education staff was formed to ensure effective achievement…

Covering the Burlington school district's career education project for its first year from July 1975 through June 1976, the report describes a secondary program career education program emphasizing a combination of career clusters with student development plans. A sample population of 300 students from grades 7, 9, and 11 kept career folders and…

A model high school accounting cluster program was planned, developed, implemented, and evaluated in the Beaverton, Oregon, school district. The curriculum was developed with the help of representatives from the accounting occupations in the Portland metropolitan area. Through management interviews, identification of on-the job requirements, and…

Sixteen instructors who teach the ninth grade career cluster programs at the Cape May County Career Center produced learning activity packets which would constitute the required career exploration and decision-making activities for ninth graders. At a forty-hour workshop conducted during the summer of 1979 they developed fifteen separate but…

To meet the needs of distributive education teachers and students, a project was initiated to develop competency-based curriculum models for marketing and distributive education clusters. The models which were developed incorporate competencies, materials and resources, teaching methodologies/learning activities, and evaluative criteria for the…

The Interstate Distributive Education Curriculum Consortium (IDECC) was used as the nucleus in a five-part project to develop competency-based instructional systems for (1) adult distributive education, (2) postsecondary education, (3) special needs (of handicapped and disadvantaged groups), (4) additional occupations (such as marketing and…