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Lindstrom, Lauren E.; And Others – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1996
This article describes how to develop a "job club" for students with disabilities, to assist them with the transition from school to work. The ability of job clubs to teach goal setting, self-determination skills, and interpersonal competence is discussed. Step-by-step instructions are included as well as a sample meeting agenda. (CR)
Descriptors: Career Education, Clubs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship

Pavlak, Michael F. – Journal of Career Education, 1983
Describes the development and implementation of a career guidance program for delinquent youth in residential-treatment settings. The program's goals are to acquire knowledge of strengths and weaknesses, interests and values, use resources to gain knowledge of the working world, acquire decision-making skills, work with others, and develop job…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Decision Making Skills, Delinquency, Delinquent Rehabilitation
West Virginia Research Coordinating Unit for Vocational Education, Huntington. – 1980
This manual is designed to provide school personnel with the information necessary to plan, implement, and evaluate a school-based placement program. Chapters 1-3 introduce the material, discuss the placement program structure, and address manual use. Chapters 4-6 focus on one of the three stages of planning, implementation, and evaluation and are…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Education Work Relationship
Affleck, James Q.; And Others – 1987
The manual, developed by the Realistic Transition Project in Washington State, reviews program experiences and recommended best practices for serving mildly handicapped students in their final years of school (ages 17-21). The project focused on employment with formal class teaching secondary to community work experience. A skills curriculum…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, High Schools, Interpersonal Competence, Job Search Methods
Affleck, James Q.; And Others – 1987
The final report describes The Realistic Transition Project, a 3-year project designed to help mildly handicapped 17 to 21-year-olds in the transition from school to competitive employment. Social skills necessary for seeking and maintaining employment and money management skills were two important curriculum components. Specific objectives and…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Education Work Relationship, High Schools, Interpersonal Competence
Johnson, Charlotte F.; Stepp, Adelaide A. – 1988
Project Exploration developed and pilot-tested a process for the career development of 21 learning-disabled (LD) women on the Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas. The project focused on enlightened self-awareness as well as the development of essential academic and behavioral skills. The project helped the LD women to gain knowledge…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration
Fort Wayne Women's Bureau, Inc., IN. – 1981
Career Doors was a developmental project designed to develop motivational instructional materials that introduce and reinforce the connection between educational and employment decisions made by undereducated adults and to produce a variety of audio visual materials for use in existing Indiana adult education programs. Since the project was…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Career Education, Demonstration Programs
Imel, Susan – 2000
The passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996 has ushered in a new era of welfare reform. A work-first approach emphasizes self-sufficiency designed to move welfare recipients into the workforce as quickly as possible. The first of two issues related to the current context of welfare-to-work…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship, Educational Research

Reubens, Beatrice G. – 1979
This study examines school-to-work transition services, encompassing educational and occupational information and guidance, as well as job placement, induction, and follow-up. Section 1 provides an introduction to the study and the study's historical background. Section 2 concerns the organizational goals and forms of transition services. It uses…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Guidance, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship
Hanson, Susan A. – 1997
A project was conducted to build an education and career enhancement system for Pennsylvania's adult population over age 24 that includes all three basic components of a school-to-work program: work-based learning, school-based learning, and connecting activities. The program was opened to unemployed and underemployed adults in two rural…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Career Counseling, Career Education
Froeschle, Richard, Ed. – 2000
This monograph is comprised of 12 essays related to the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), each of which serves as a generic primer on a topic relevant to work force development staff and researchers nationwide. The essays are "Learning the Language of LMI (Labor Market Information): Basic Labor Market Information Terms and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Career Education, Career Information Systems
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2001
Career portfolios contain evidence of individuals' knowledge and skills and are useful tools in job search and career change, especially now that employers want generalizable workplace skills not well portrayed by traditional means and students are often inept at communicating their skills and knowledge to employers. Career portfolios contain and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Planning
K. N. Associates, Wyomissing Hills, PA. – 1983
This handbook is designed to provide a framework to assist resource persons in counseling adult students seeking a method for gaining access to employment. Presented first are an overview of the handbook and suggestions for its use. The next chapter deals with the characteristics of a traineeship and the benefits of traineeships to trainees and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Cooperative Programs, Counseling Techniques
Gooden, Susan – 1998
Washington Works is a nonprofit organization founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1992 to help low-income women improve their lives and the lives of their children by teaching them to think differently about themselves. The program offered courses in personal effectiveness training, basic skills training, office skills development, and job search…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Case Studies, Economically Disadvantaged