This manual is a gaming simulation that career development professionals can use to promote awareness of and sensitivity to the job search experience encountered by their clientele. Goals of the simulation are to approximate a real life job search experience from different perspectives, while at the same time making it fun and interactive. Players…

Career Doors was a developmental project designed to develop motivational instructional materials that introduce and reinforce the connection between educational and employment decisions made by undereducated adults and to produce a variety of audio visual materials for use in existing Indiana adult education programs. Since the project was…

This instructor's guide accompanies the student booklet/unit on job searches in the Employability Skills Series. (The booklet is available separately as CE 031 157.) It first discusses the Employability Skills Series. A section on administering the unit details purpose of the unit and major concepts to be developed, lists student performance and…

This instructor's guide accompanies the student booklet/unit on applying for a job in the Employability Skills Series. (The student booklet is available separately as CE 031 159.) It first discusses the Employability Skills Series. A section on administering the unit details purpose of the unit and major concepts to be developed, lists student…

Designed with the adult education instructor/supervisor in mind, this manual's purpose is to bring adult education courses into a career focus by providing a group guidance program. Divided into seven sessions, the program outlined in the manual aims to help individuals, with instructor or guidance counselor leadership, to clarify for themselves…

This manual is designed to provide materials to improve the employment and academic skills of adults. Five chapters are included. Each chapter begins with problem-solving exercises that encourage students to reflect on the topic and recall their past experiences. These exercises provide a framework for the students to understand the readings that…

This bibliography, containing approximately 600 abstracts of career education materials, was developed for adult education administrators, planners, and practitioners, working in a variety of settings, such as adult basic education programs, high school equivalency programs, on-the-job training and retraining programs, and career counseling…

This updated and expanded edition of a 1-year course on how to get a job and hold it, aimed at students with learning disabilities and their teachers, includes five teaching units: (1) vocational academics (mathematics, letter writing, telephone techniques); (2) vocational resources (responding to classified advertisements in newspapers, Social…

Materials for adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction are presented. They are designed to enable adult ESL learners with limited oral and/or written competence in English to handle most everyday survival, social, family, and job-related situations independently, using oral and written English. Stage 2 materials, presented here, are…

The curriculum presented in this teacher's guide is designed to provide limited-English-proficient adults, primarily refugees and immigrants, with language, communication, and employment-related skills for successful job acquisition and performance. It draws on experience in working with the refugee community, and includes input from employers and…

One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Job Orientation and Training Program. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting…