Describes the development of a curriculum guide for gifted students enrolled in child development and guidance programs in Virginia Beach City Schools, intended to encourage such students to enter child-related professions. (SK)

Students in the child care occupations course at Maine West High School, Des Plaines, Illinois, gain work experience through a school-operated preschool program and in a local elementary school. Schedules, program activities, grading, and selection processes are described. (Author/MW)

Cooperation between local businesses and the home economics departments at a high school and a technical college has been successful in preparing high school students for jobs in the child care field. Course content includes child development, guidance, communication, discipline, and teaching skills; observation and experience are provided at…

A successful course in catering and one in child care are described as they have evolved at McKinley High School in Washington, D.C. (MU)

Designed to enhance student knowledge of and skills in child guidance in group care settings, this manual provides 50 laboratory experiences for five units. Units cover foundations and assumptions (2 laboratory experiences), developmental factors (8), indirect guidance (14), direct guidance (14), and strategies (12). Each unit includes performance…

Intended for instructors in occupational education programs, this catalog identifies instructional materials found to be successful for teaching specific occupational competencies identified in the Instructional Support System for Occupational Education [ISSOE] in the area of home economics education. Contents include 99 materials reporting forms…

Job and task analyses for bus boy, short order cook, and child care aide; also contains a career ladder for a child care center and proposed course of study and job analysis form for child care aide. (SB)

Good cooperation from urban day care center and 6 elementary schools helps to provide training laboratories for home economics students. (Editor)

Discusses changes made in a high school occupational home economics program so that student needs are met and also provides a brochure describing the supportive health and child care services program. (SB)

This paper examines a comprehensive approach to training for child care practitioners and presents a framework for developing staff training. It considers each of the four elements essential to building training experiences: adult developmental change, growth in professional competence, characteristics of adult learning, and training options. Each…

This document is an inventory of skills identified as necessary by professionals in the human services field specializing in child care. It is intended as a mechanism whereby educators can compare that which they teach against what the human services industry feels is relevant. Introductory material discusses the process of the occupational…

To relate the three major aspects of the home economics program at the secondary level, a curriculum model consisting of education for homemaking and family life, education for employment utilizing home economics knowledge and skills, and pre-professional education was developed by the director of the Department of Vocational and Technical…

The educational implications of the research, "A Survey and Analysis of Major Tasks, Knowledges Associated with Work and Child Care Occupations," (ED 021 066) are examined. A proposed framework for curriculum development and child care contains task analysis, knowledge derivation, behavioral objective development, and organization of objectives…

Reviews research results regarding employment opportunities for professional nannies and nanny education programs in the U.S. Describes training programs conducted by employment agencies and continuing education divisions, and two- and four-year credit programs. Relates findings regarding curricula, instructional materials, faculty, professional…

Reunification of Germany, democratic changes in Eastern European countries, and new government policies of the Soviet Union will lead to the reduction of U.S. troops in West Germany. As a Department of Defense contractor providing associate degrees to soldiers in Europe, Central Texas College (CTC) will be severely affected by the troop…