For many educational organizations, ensuring students have a positive experience and feel cared for by their degree program faculty is necessary for recruitment and retention, which can be especially important in challenging doctoral programs. Making information easily accessible and up-todate on the website, including the necessary forms, is a…

This guide is designed to stimulate career guidance program development. It provides an analysis of current information and organizes this information according to various program development areas. Ultimately, the guide is intended to help a school or community group design a career program tailored to its own needs. (Author/PC)

The bulletin is intended to assist local educational agency administrators in developing and/or strengthening and expanding occupational services for disadvantaged and handicapped persons as required by Federal and State legislation and outlined in the Illinois State plan. The publication opens with a discussion of the criteria for the…

The guide briefly describes the objectives and content of a career awareness course consisting of a nine-week block (approximately 45 sessions) which was offered to all Dickinson Area Vocational High School students during their sophomore year. It gives week by week suggestions for implementing the career awareness program, including seminars,…

The major purpose of this project was to further develop, expand, diffuse, demonstrate, and evaluate an educational program which provides an experience-based career education (EBCE) component at the secondary level in three Florida school districts and one postsecondary site. These four components, acting as a consortium, were extensions of…

The career exploration view is designed to stimulate learning which will provide individualized feedback to students concerning their self-identities. The career conscious individual career education model is an outcome-oriented model designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes individuals need to…

This guide provides criteria for both the planning and the implementing of career education programs at the community college level and is the result of a national poll conducted by the National Dissemination Project. It is intended to suggest ways in which community colleges might better serve the needs of minority and disadvantaged students…

The three-year plan includes development of a State industrial arts guide, development of instructional materials common to all existing programs, and inservice teacher education for program implementation. To date only the first phase has been completed, with total project completion scheduled for the next three years. Master plan committee…

Provided is a handbook on establishing educational programs for the learning disabled adolescent which resulted from a seminar involving secondary level educators. An introductory section provides background information and a summary of the other five sections. Section II on qualifications of secondary learning disability personnel is noted to…

Miami-Dade Community College is engaged in a project designed to develop a model Associate Degree program for Human Services/Drug Abuse workers, to establish a national consortium of community colleges to offer the program, and to develop the curricula and instructional methodology for a "first course" in drug abuse for persons going into the…

Under contract with the United States Office of Education, RMC Research Corporation and its subcontractor, Learning Achievement Corporation, undertook a research and development program aimed at identifying compensatory education projects which had produced reliably measured cognitive achievement benefits in reading and/or arithmetic. Once…

This how-to-do-it handbook is designed to help the potential rural clinical option (RCO) coordinator develop a program in which nursing students can have an in-depth clinical experience in a rural health facility. Separate sections detail how to: (1) determine the amount of release time and financial resources available to run the program; (2)…

The Child Nutrition Act of 1966 as amended provides cash and food assistance to local school systems for breakfast programs to help them improve diets of young people. These guidelines for planning the school breakfast are intended to help food service directors, supervisors and managers plan breakfast menus that will provide 1/4 to 1/3 of the…

Guidelines are formulated for State directors of vocational-technical education and of continuing education, State and city supervisors of consumer and homemaking education, local public school superintendents, curriculum directors, college and university teacher educators, and other leaders, to help direct program planners in the expansion of…

An internship is required of doctoral programs in vocational-technical education programs funded under Section 552 of the Education Professions Development Act; the programs of the 11 original EPDA 552 institutions were investigated, and the results are presented. The historical background of internship in the United States is developed in a…