This document is a collection of informative pamphlets, articles, and resource materials to be used in the development of classroom career education programs. Among the inclusions are: a four-page model of a career education program from kindergarten to post high school, a one-page article about career development, a one-page diagram of the major…

A model curriculum design is summarized for the integration of career education into Grades K through 9. Included are: (1) a descriptive overview of the curriculum design, (2) lists of members of the three review teams and the advisory panel, and (3) figures and tables depicting the scope, objectives, and concepts covered by the curriculum, and…

Offered as an aid for developing sequential occupational education programs, the publication presents a concept in career education planning beginning with kindergarten and continuing through adult years. Career education goals are defined, and steps in planning sequential programs are outlined as follows: (1) organization of the occupational…

This publication contains the papers presented during a 4-day teacher education seminar. The papers are: (1) "Rationale for Career Education" by R.N. Evans and G. McClosky, (2) "The Context of Career Education" by K. Goldhammer, (3) "Career Education Tenets" by A. J. Miller, (4) "Employer-Based Career Education: The RBS Model" by L.M. Maguire and…

A study focused on defining what is needed to build an occupational classification system using a skills-based concept. A thorough analysis was conducted of all existing classification systems and the new Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) content model so recommendations made regarding the revisions of the Standard Occupational…

This document contains four working papers dealing with various aspects of career education. "Career Education: Description and Goals," prepared by E. L. Rumpf and others, defines career education and identifies and discusses eight characteristics and seven career education goals. "Career Education: A Model for Implementation," prepared by J.…

One in a series devoted to the topic of careers in transportation, this guide, which is intended to aid in curriculum development for transportation career education in elementary through high school, provides information and models for career education and the transportation field. The four sections that comprise the guide are the following: (1)…

This report presents a planning model which shows how to utilize various sources of occupational and educational information in order to enhance planning efforts with state department of education personnel and other education agencies at the secondary and community college levels. A vocational program planning model is presented in seven stages:…

Developed for use in Grades 1-6, this teaching guide provides 26 resource units on career awareness. Through a process called curriculum blending (correlating or relating subject matter to occupational requirements), occupational information can be introducted into one discipline or simultaneously into more than one discipline. Arranged in a…

This guide is intended to be used as a model to develop Career Education Experiences in a classroom program. It includes eight sample learning modules for the primary grade level (K-3) and another eight for the intermediate grade level (4-6). Each module has three basic parts: instructional information, instructional activities, and culmination or…

This report describes an Indiana project to develop occupational matrices in six vocational service areas--agribusiness, business and office, health, home economics, marketing and distribution, and trades and industries. (These matrices cluster industry-verified job titles in an occupational field on the basis of task commonality.) These…

Based on a recent task inventory of key occupations in the accounting cluster taken in the Portland, Oregon, area, this curriculum guide is intended to assist administrators and teachers in the design and implementation of high school accounting cluster programs. The guide is divided into four major sections: program organization and…

This pamphlet provides a hierarchy of skills, from those most often used in the craft trades to those less frequently used, indicating the extent to which these skills are used by workers in 24 different occupational groups. The pamphlet also provides a secondary school vocational model for craft trades along with lists of the identified skills.…