Trade and industrial educators are finding it necessary to provide individuals with a multiplicity of skills to meet the needs of the nation's scientific and technological complex. The cluster skill concept should be initiated in the pre-employment training program for trade and industrial education. (AG)

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,…

This document is a summary and evaluation of a 3-year interdisciplinary, interagency effort to improve vocational education. Twenty-nine component reports are summarized and interpreted with resumes in four interrelated efforts: (1) Identification of socioeconomic factors that affect pupil's occupational and educational aspirations, expectations…

The document is intended to expand and clarify the DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process and product. As a process, it is a group analysis of a particular job or subject area; as a product, it is one or two sheets of paper showing a skill profile for a job or subject area which can serve as a curriculum outline or plan. The document consists of…

This curriculum guide deals with electrical occupations clusters. The first section of the guide introduces vocational and career education in general, and electrical occupational education in particular; provides definitions of commonly used terms; and lists guidelines for establishing acceptable secondary vocational programs in Oregon. In the…