Twelve lesson plans on getting a job are presented in this performance-based curriculum unit for distributive education. This unit is self-contained and consists of the following components: introduction (provides overview of unit content and describes why mastery of the objectives is important); performance objectives; pre-assessment instrument…

Designed for use with youth offenders, this teacher's guide contains five modules on job survival skills. The module titles include the following: (1) motivation/orientation to job survival skills, (2) matching values, skills, and interests to jobs, (3) job seeking skills, (4) job getting skills, and (5) job maintaining skills. the first part of…

This curriculum guide was developed to help teach keyboarding skills for computer use at all educational levels, especially in Nebraska. Following a position paper that explores the rationale for teaching keyboarding, the curriculum guide is organized in eight units that cover the following topics: equipment; technique; keyboarding; formatting;…

This guide is intended for use in a prevocational class for special needs students. Included in the guide are the following components: an introduction that discusses the content of the curriculum and its use as a main textbook, supplementary material, or element in an individualized education program (IEP); a 12-unit curriculum; answer keys for…

This instructor's guide accompanies a student booklet on job search methods. It is divided into five sections that focus on the five major steps in the process of job seeking: Self-Appraisal, Job Search, Job Application, Job Interview, and Job Maintenance. Since the sections can stand alone, the instructor may use as many or few as time and…

This guide contains 21 task sheets for use in helping students develop job-hunting skills. The following employability skills are addressed in the individual task sheets: compiling a list of personal attributes, identifying a list of areas of work that will provide personal job satisfaction, determining ways of reducing levels of stress, using…

Intended as part of the second year of instruction for students of vocational agriculture, this unit for a plant science core curriculum consists of five lessons designed to help students in their careers and personal development. Topics are: reconsidering career plans; finding information on available jobs; getting a job; developing as a…

This resource book consists of lessons and resource materials designed to assist teachers in conducting group and individual activities to help students develop pre-employment career skills. Provided first are instructional units addressing the following topics: self-appraisal (interests, attitudes, and aptitudes; goal setting and decision making;…

Designed to help students obtain job skills and abilities that will help them on the job, this guide presents three weeks of lesson plans enabling students to perform each step in acquiring and holding a job in a simulated business. Following suggestions for obtaining products requiring no capital outlay, a brief description of the five…

This manual is the first part of a two-volume teacher's guide to a series of instructional units for use in health occupations education programs in Texas. Covered in the 10 units included in this volume are the following topics: taking and recording vital signs; job applications and interviews; grooming and personal hygiene; health careers;…

This section on job-related instruction is one of three that comprise a program entitled Related Instruction for Cooperative Part-Time Training. (Other sections are Personal Development and Basic Life Skills.) It contains nine instructional units. Each unit includes the following basic components: unit and specific objectives, notes to the…

This curriculum guide provides teachers of office procedures classes with unit lesson plans and information about resource materials that can be examined, selected, and integrated into the instructional program. Contents are mainly established for the following two types of secondary-level programs: cooperative office education and intensive…

This teacher's guide is designed for use in providing secondary and postsecondary students in office occupations education programs with an introduction to office duplication practices. Addressed in the individual units of the guide are the following topics: orientation to classroom policies; classroom safety; grooming, hygiene, and nutrition;…

This set of publications, consisting of a student workbook and teacher's manual, is designed for use by adult learners registered in the introductory level of the career planning course of the Ontario (Canada) Basic Skills program. The student workbook contains units on the following topics: introduction to career planning, self-assessment for…

This set of publications, consisting of a student workbook and teacher's manual, is designed for use by adult learners registered in the advanced level of the career planning course of the Ontario (Canada) Basic Skills program. The student workbook contains units on the following topics: introduction to career planning, self-assessment for…