Promoting pre-service teachers' development of professional dispositions through purposefully designed learning experiences may be middle level teacher education's most important contribution to a novice's development from student to teacher. The 2022 Revised Middle Level Teacher Preparation Standards explicitly address this expectation in…

Designed for below-average-reading-level students, the purpose of this interview guide is to help young job seekers prepare for the job interview process. The first three chapters explain the nature of the personal job interview, the steps to be followed in preparing for a job interview, and the do's and don't's of the interview itself. The…

This guide contains thirteen units of instruction designed to illustrate how to get a job. Unit titles are (1) Offer Your Best Ability, (2) Follow Your Interests, (3) Put Your Talent to Work, (4) Make Your Classwork Pay, (5) Use Your Past Experience, (6) Check Out Business Needs, (7) Offer to Do Odd Jobs, (8) Offer a Special Service, (9) Believe…

Developed originally for juvenile offenders in the Wisconsin correctional facilities, this curriculum is organized in the same areas and format specified by the Job Training Partnership Act. It focuses on basic skills and survival (preemployment) skills identified as necessary to perform as effective adults. The five competencies covered are…

Ten units on health occupations are presented in this teacher's guide. The units are the following: recording vital signs; job application and interview; grooming and personal hygiene; health careers; medical careers; medical ethics; medical terminology and abbreviations; medical asepsis; basic patient care (e.g., measuring and recording fluid…

Eighteen units on office duplication practices are presented in this teacher's guide. The unit topics include the following: classroom safety; human relations in the office setting; grooming and hygiene; telephone communications; computing routine math transactions; stencil, fluid, and offset duplication; operating business machines; indexing,…

Ten units on the world of construction and twelve units on carpentry are presented in this teacher's guide. The construction units include the following: safety; human relations in the shop; grooming and hygiene; hand tools; measurement; portable power tools, stationary power tools; fastening devices; and job application and interview. The…

Because most high school counselors have not had the opportunity to explore job opportunities in their own community, this project's purpose was (1) to provide the counselor with first hand information concerning the various job opportunities available to students in their own community; (2) to implement programs in the schools of the vocational…

This section on job-related instruction is one of three that comprise a program entitled Related Instruction for Cooperative Part-Time Training. (Other sections are Personal Development and Basic Life Skills.) It contains nine instructional units. Each unit includes the following basic components: unit and specific objectives, notes to the…