The guide offers a compilation of teacher-developed career education materials which may be integrated with secondary level curriculum in mathematics. Suggested activities and ideas present the following units based on career clusters as they relate to mathematics: construction, communications and media, hospitality and recreation, public service,…

This description of the development of the Mansfield, Illinois, K-6 career awareness model program for elementary school students covers the following areas: program objectives, inservice training and workshops for personnel, curriculum outlines of occupational clusters, and the integration of career development and subject matter concepts. (MF)

Developed to provide bases for curriculum decisions in education for marketing and distribution careers, the conceptual framework presented here contains the following elements: Identification of social, economic and educational trends which affect employment and education in marketing and distribution; an assessment of current education practice;…

The report describes a K-6 career awareness project designed to: describe the major goals of an elementary career education program; assimilate the career education concepts into the curriculum; provide inservice training for administrators, teachers, and staff; and identify community resources of use in career education programs. A 40-page…

The third of five documents developed as an outgrowth of funded programs for career education in Kentucky, the handbook for elementary teachers involved in career education includes an overview, strategies for teaching, and sample units and plans for grades K-6. It is not a curriculum guide or comprehensive outline but an aid to teachers not…

Prepared during the first year of a 3-year pilot program, this working draft of a resource guide represents efforts to develop and field test resource units for career education, Grades 1-6. The units, which include objectives and learning activities, are clustered as follows: (1) Distribution and Marketing, (2) Agriculture-Natural Resources, (3)…

The module is the fifth of a series of seven discrete modules designed to assist elementary school teachers in the development of a career education program or to enrich an already established program. Module 5 may be used separately or in conjunction with the other modules. In module 5, infusion of career development concepts is explained, and…

The fourth of five documents developed as an outgrowth of funded programs for career education in Kentucky, the handbook for junior high school teachers involved in career education includes an overview, strategy for curriculum development, strategy for teaching, and sample units and plans. It is not a curriculum guide or comprehensive outline but…

The last of five documents developed as an outgrowth of funded programs for career education in Kentucky, the handbook for high school teachers involved in career education includes an overview, startegy for curriculum development, strategies for teaching, and sample units and plans. It is not a curriculum guide or comprehensive outline but rather…

The exploration phase of career education in the middle school years places equal emphasis on exploration of specific occupational clusters and on the relevancy of academic subject matter to career goals. Intended for use as a resource for junior high school teachers in intorudcing the exploration phase of career education, the guide is organized…

One of seven similar project reports dealing with program development in career education for teacher, counselor, and administrator preparation, this report presents information on infusing career education content into educational personnel preparation programs. The information describes the results of work done by the Career Clusters Task Force,…

One of 11 guides which can be used as a resource for teachers in implementing the exploration phase of career education in the middle/junior high school, the guide is not intended as an exhaustive in-depth study of the communications and media field. It serves rather as an indication of directions a classroom teacher might take in introducing the…

One of 11 guides intended for use at the junior high school level of career exploration, the primary focus of the teacher's guide is on the many occupational opportunities within the transportation cluster. Four occupational clusters are treated: (1) land transportation, (2) water transportation, (3) air and space transportation, and (4)…

This book contains the following papers examining approaches to integrating high school vocational and academic curricula in U.S. high schools to provide education through occupations: "Resolving the Paradox of the High School" (W. Norton Grubb); "'The Cunning Hand, the Cultured Mind': Sources of Support for Curriculum…

The publication is intended to provide some guidance to educators who are in the process of developing career education units which will be integrated into and correlated with school subjects. The first part of the document focuses on developing resource units, and offers information on goals and objectives, on the integration of career education…