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Download full textWorthington, Robert M. – 1971
Career education is a bold design for education effecting a blend of academic, general, and work skills learning so that individuals passing through the school system will be ready for economic self-sufficiency, for a personally satisfying life, and for new learning experiences appropriate to career development and avocational interests. The…
Descriptors: Career Education, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Labor Force Development
Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins. School of Education. – 1995
This guide begins with a rationale for teaching applied academics courses. The next section contains a summary of the following important factors in the Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) effort: characteristics of high performance workplaces, lessons offered by high performance schools, guidelines for restructured…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Inservice Teacher Education
Porter, G. William, Ed.; And Others – 1976
The basic text (or, in some cases, an outline of the text) of the presentations taped at the conference for vocational education personnel coordinators constitute the major portion of this report. Titles are (1) A Philosophy for Personnel Development in Vocational Education, (2) Performance-Based Teacher Education for Vocational Teachers, (3) A…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Career Education, Competency Based Teacher Education, Conference Reports
Metropolitan Baltimore Council of AFL-CIO Unions, MD. – 1992
Maryland's Labor Education Achievement Program (LEAP) worked with a wide diversity of union workers in multiple industries and within numerous private companies and public agencies over a dispersed geographic area. Staff development included a workshop for local coordinators and a teacher inservice training session. LEAP provided…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Ancillary School Services, Competency Based Education
Brown, Jane A. – 1992
This document contains the final progress report on a tech prep implementation project and the Work Force Challenge 2000 Report developed during the project. The final report lists these major accomplishments: approximately 1,500 educators in grades K-12 were provided information concerning future global issues in the work force and the effects in…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Business Cycles, Community Colleges, Futures (of Society)
Wells, Alice; Robertson-Phillips, Theresa – 1992
The Labor Education Achievement Program (LEAP) provided workplace literacy services to 664 union workers in 39 classes at worksites, union halls, and other locations. Students' average age was nearly 40. All had attended some public school; 91 percent had some high school education. Students reported various reasons for enrollment; 90.6 percent…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Ancillary School Services, Competency Based Education
Langenbach, Michael, Comp. – 1991
Papers in this volume include: "Retirement Learning" (Adair); "Effect of Literacy on Personal Income" (Blunt); "Popular Discourse Concerning Women and AIDS" (Boshier); "John Steinbeck's Learning Project" (Brockett); "Faculty Careers of Professors of Adult Education" (Caffarella); "Racism in…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Education, Adult Educators
