High school students' prevalence as food-service industry employees and their lack of food safety knowledge make them prime candidates for food safety education. The researchers developed a food-safety-focused curriculum for high school students aligned with Indiana Academic Standards for Agriculture, Advanced Life Science: Food. The curriculum…

Career and technical educators are constantly being challenged to have their courses meet the changing needs of their students in this fast-paced world people live in. As the name implies, the hybrid online course is a melding of traditional and online learning. In this article, the author describes her experience designing hybrid courses that…

The term "integrated curriculum" has many different, sometimes conflicting, meanings to educators. In this manual, integrated curriculum refers to the materials and pedagogical strategies used by "multidisciplinary" teams of teachers to organize their instruction so that students are encouraged to make meaningful connections…

Describes a model for career communication curricula and explores clustering of job-related communication skills. (MH)

The career education program in Santa Barbara has found social studies appropriate and desirable as a vehicle through which the teacher can assist the student to learn more about the world and some of the alternative career choices he can make. (Author/KM)

An overview of Iowa's plan for curriculum improvement in industrial arts, K-12, describes the development, content, and implementation strategies of a new State curriculum guide. Guide development involved two committees made up of teachers, supervisors, educators, and consultants from around the State who reviewed literature, recently developed…

The narrative portion of this report described the middle school career exploration curriculum now in effect for grades 6, 7, and 8 at Scarlett Junior High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The major goal of the project was to establish, in a student oriented environment, a balanced learning program to increase student affective and cognitive growth.…

Administrators and teachers who are formulating a career education program for their school or school district are confronted with a wide range of decisions to be made. By viewing career education as a "curriculum organizer," the authors present the range of questions that must be discussed before decisions and directions are determined. Fourteen…

Man's knowledge may be conceptualized and ordered into four domains or classes--formal knowledge, descriptive knowledge, prescriptive knowledge, and praxiological knowledge. In today's rapidly changing world of work, the key saleable skills are flexibility and adaptability. A secondary school program based entirely on the formal, descriptive, and…

The DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process is described in this paper as a method for designing a curriculum that is responsive to the needs of business, industry, health, and public service fields. First, a variety of methods of curriculum development are contrasted with the DACUM process, which involves the construction of a single-sheet…

Presents a design model for basic speech communication instruction in the community college and offers solutions to staffing and scheduling problems. (MH)

A model was developed for implementing career education into an existing curriculum and is composed of four essential elements based on a perceived need: needs assessment, participation facilitation, curriculum design and implementation process. Each element of the model is totally dependent on the completion of the components comprising each…

The report is a review and analysis of the status of the Public Service Occupations Curriculum Project, and is an outgrowth of discussions and recommendations from the February 1974 meeting of the National Advisory and Review Committee of the California State Department of Education, Vocational Education Section. Approximately one-half of the…

The ultimate effectiveness of career education curricula can be determined only when the children who have been influenced by them become young adults. However, decisions must be made now about which career education paradigms should be translated into curriculum materials, and which materials already developed should be further refined,…

To develop a coordinated and systematized program of curricular design, a steering committee met with the vocational directors of several large cities, conducted extensive literature reviews, visited several institutions involved in research and teaching activities, and made contacts with personnel in various Federal agencies. In the area of…