Outlines experimental ongoing program of career guidance through curriculum as one answer to inability of school counselors to perform adequately in this area because of limited numbers trained to work with individuals rather than groups. Sees work as socially rather than individually oriented. (CJ)

A model has been prepared by a task force of educators to serve as a conceptual framework for the development of career guidance programs. The model consists of three major components of career guidance which promote career identity, including: (1) career planning and decision making, (2) education, work, and leisure alternatives, and (3) life…

A career counseling project was undertaken to address the career decision-making needs of 12th-grade students identified as being non-goal oriented. A major part of the project was the establishment of a career resource center. Project activities consisted of planning, orientation, implementation, and evaluation. Planning activities included goal…

A project was conducted to design and field-test a prevocational program of recruitment, instruction, advising, counseling, and placement for women considering careers in science and technology fields. Additional objectives were to directly assist women in coping with constraints inhibiting them from entering such fields and to compile the program…

This package is the fourth of twelve in the Skills for Adult Guidance Educators (SAGE) system, which provides instruction in a set of necessary competencies specifically designed for adult education counselors, teachers, and paraprofessionals. The materials provide a process for developing and implementing counseling and guidance programs unique…

Because of their concern regarding vocational education programs not being responsive to labor market conditions, the Congress has established the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC). The primary outcomes desired by Congress in creating NOICC were labor market supply and demand data for planning and occupational…

Project BITE (Business-Industry-Training-Education) was conducted to determine if career decisions of inner-city high school students can be influenced by career training in the areas of career information, career exploration, and job development. The study was also planned to provide information about how schools can achieve maximum benefits from…

Professionals and paraprofessionals involved in career counseling will want this newly revised practitioners' guide. The content of career counseling differs conceptually and strategically according to the client's specific developmental stage. This book addresses this by setting forth competencies used by the National Occupational Information…

Activities of the Project DISCOVER team during the ten-month period from September 1, 1975 through June 30, 1976 are summarized in this report. (DISCOVER is a computer-based career guidance system under development since September 1972.) The major section reviews progress in meeting each of the following four objectives during the funding period,…

This guide is designed to assist school counselors in developing bias-free career planning programs that will in turn help students' improve their decision-making skills. The following topics are covered: the counselor and bias in career planning, counseling concerns for women, counseling concerns for men, the counselor's role in bias-free career…

A comprehensive career development program model is presented. It attempts to provide total career capability for all and has the following process objectives: (1) provide students with experiences and information that present occupational dimensions accurately; (2) provide appropriate situations at different levels so that all youth may have an…

A project was conducted to develop, test, and implement a comprehensive program for Georgia school systems, grades K-14. The target population included regular students, students with special needs, out-of-school youth, and adults experiencing career problems. Project objectives were to develop a K-14 guidance model, develop a state/local…

This description of career education activities in Pima County, Arizona, was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final report of this study.) This…