This resource kit for working with older people consists of an instructor's guide, a package of simulation training materials, and performance-based teacher education modules. Topics covered in the instructor's guide are understanding the common problems of working with older people, selecting problem areas for trainees, developing plans for using…

This package of training materials is intended for use in a professional development program for teachers of two courses in New South Wales: Human Society and the Environment and Technological and Applied Studies. The package consists of nine booklets and a course outline for each course. The first module contains the following: introduction to…

This module on organization and management is 1 in a series of 10 modules written for vocational education teacher education programs. It is designed to enable the teacher to differentiate between and recognize the need for instructor/student rights and responsibilities as they affect student learning. Specifically, the module focuses on…

This guide, which is intended for classroom teachers, supervisors, and administrators throughout Alabama, contains the minimum required content (core program) for public school instruction in family and consumer sciences education in grades 7-12. Presented first are the following: introduction examining the objectives/delivery of family and…

This set of competency-based learning modules consists of four career exploration modules and three science modules for use with adults with limited English proficiency. The four career exploration models contain activities designed to introduce students to career opportunities and basic job skills and safety procedures in the following fields:…

This guide is intended for use in presenting a 90-hour career planning curriculum targeted toward unmarried teenage parents. The guide consists of 19 units that are structured around Wisconsin's 19 developmental guidance competencies. The following competencies are covered: understand one's learning abilities and how to apply them; perform…

This module on rights and responsibilities is intended to introduce the hospitality manager or supervisor to sound personnel management practices that comply with the law. The material is presented in a self-instructional format in seven sections. At the beginning of each section is a statement of the objectives that will be achieved as a result…

These 17 teacher modules are part of a curriculum dealing with food management, production, and services that was developed for use in secondary and postsecondary vocational programs in Tennessee. Covered in the individual modules are food service careers, math skills, reading and converting recipes, work simplification, self-development,…

This package of seven modules that introduce health occupations II is one of six such packages containing a total of 46 modules that comprise Health Occupations Education II, the second course of a two-year course of study. Each module may contain some or all of the following components: introduction, directions, objectives, a list of learning…

This unit on managing human resources in a small business, the 12th in a series of 18 modules, is on the second level of the revised PACE (Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship) comprehensive curriculum. Geared to advanced secondary and beginning postsecondary or adult students, the modules provide an opportunity to learn about and…

This curriculum guide is designed to assist vocational educators in presenting an articulated, performance-based course in electricity and industrial electricity. Addressed in the individual units of the course (included in 11 modules) are the following topics: safety, leadership, communication skills, career preparation, good work habits and…

One of five modules in the foundation series of the 16-module series designed to train vocational education curriculum specialists, this module is intended for use in classes or individual study arrangements at the preservice or inservice level by students with varying amounts of experience in vocational education. (These modules are revised…

Growing from mobile career libraries established for special needs secondary students in Carroll County, Maryland, this curriculum contains 10 units designed to aid educationally handicapped students to understand themselves and the world of work. Topics covered in the units include the following: self-awareness and appraisal, interpersonal…

This guide has been developed in order to help secondary teachers to plan a two-level, performance-based semester course on family life. Each of the levels is organized into units based on competencies. Level 1 covers self-understanding, the family in perspective, interpersonal relations, solutions to crises, community resources, and establishing…

This document is a teaching unit of the Coordinated Career Education Curriculum Guide, available separately in ERIC--see note. It provides learning activities for 15 career clusters to be explored by special needs students. The career clusters covered in the unit include agribusiness and natural resources, business and office, communication and…