The clustering of teacher centers facilitates teacher sharing of information and resources, encourages professional development, and assists in the change and development of the centers. (JD)

Career education is probably best described as a group of concepts and processes, including career awareness, career exploration, infusion of career-oriented material with traditional educational resources, hands-on involvement, and participation in education by people normally employed in the world of work. Vocational education is simply one…

With the aim of developing a better basis for industrial education curricula as part of career education, 12 cluster plans found in the recent literature are described in the first half of the document. Each description indicates target population, grade level, and the career clusters included, to suggest the plan's comprehensiveness and its…

The design of a proposed occupational clustering system for the Comprehensive Career Education Model (CCEM) was to meet three general criteria: (1) encompass most existing jobs, (2) translate into an entire K-12 curriculum, and (3) show clear advantages over other systems. However, upon examination of existing clustering systems for relevance and…

Materials for a career development program for infusing career education concepts into elementary or high school curriculum are presented in this staff development guide. The text is arranged around four phases involved in implementing a career education. Phase 1 (Why) contains excerpts of four documents relating to change in education and career…

Based on the issues related to the 1975 desegregation court order issued to the Boston (Massachusetts) Public Schools, the author discusses and describes the following three components of Boston's Unified Plan for occupational and vocational education: (1) the implementation of core programs in the eight community districts that together comprise…

Occupational adaptability is an important consideration in the development of programs related to occupational exploration, career development, and vocational education. Intended to be an authoritative analysis of the literature in the field, this state-of-the-art paper should assist in identifying substantive problems and methodological…

The document presents the first phase of a project designed to develop specific direction, organization, and implementation of public service occupational education in community colleges. A consortium of 17 colleges in California was established to provide information needed to develop a master plan. Four workshops were held to formulate a…

The purpose of this report is to provide local school administrators with information about occupational clusters as well as suggested strategies for implementing a career cluster concept approach at the local level. The techniques and procedures presented in this paper need to be modified and adapted by an administrator to conform with local…

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 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…