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Christen, Amy – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2009
Today's hyper-connected students live in a world of instant interpersonal communications and virtually infinite access to information and educational resources. But this networked world, and the powerful learning tools it offers, has yet to penetrate the typical classroom. In many ways educational institutions are spinning their curricular wheels,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Partnerships in Education, School Business Relationship, Program Descriptions
Hull, Daniel M. – 1980
A study was conducted to assist two-year postsecondary educational institutions in providing technical specialty courses for preparing nuclear technicians. As a result of project activities, curricula have been developed for five categories of nuclear technicians and operators: (1) radiation protection technician, (2) nuclear instrumentation and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Instrumentation Technicians, Learning Modules, Nuclear Energy
Barley, Stephen R. – 1993
Between 1950 and 1988, the number of professional and technical workers increased by 282% while the labor force as a whole only increased by 94%. Most persons employed as technicians work on or with reputedly complex technologies. Most work at the empirical interface between a larger production process and the materials on which the process…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, Educational Policy, Employment Qualifications
Parker, David L.; Creager, Joan G. – 1973
The purpose of this project was broadened to include other science technologies and the curriculum was renamed Science Technology. A survey of employers in the Northern Virginia area indicated that there were employment opportunities in a wide range of science technologies and many laboratory skills are common to all the job activities of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Employment Opportunities, Flexible Scheduling, Paraprofessional Personnel
Daugherty, Ronald D.; And Others – 1972
To assist States in implementing Highway Safety Program Standard 18, "Accident Investigation and Reporting", the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration funded an instructor training program for a new occupational field in highway safety, accident investigation technician. The Center for Vocational and Technical Education executed this…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Inservice Teacher Education
Wojdylak, Michael A.; Filippelli, Anthony J. – 1987
This curriculum guide was developed as a result of a project conducted in Pennsylvania to review, update, and revise the vocational-technical curriculum for cardiovascular technologists. The guide is organized in five sections. The first section describes the project, while the second section lists the minimum essentials for a cardiovascular…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Anatomy, Behavioral Objectives, Cardiovascular System
Bates, O. G. – 1974
The purpose of the Photoinstrumentation Technology Program is to train technicians in creative design and implementation of high-speed and other scientific photographic recordings. The curriculum was designed to provide technicians without the A.S. degree with the opportunity to acquire the educational background necessary for salary advance and…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives
Spyers-Duran, Peter – 1971
The Library Technician Program of community colleges has been endorsed by the American Library Association (ALA). The ALA's definition of a library Technical Assistant is "a person with certain specifically library-related skills--in preliminary bibliographic searching, for example, or utilization of certain mechanical equipment--the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Central Texas Coll., Killeen. – 1973
This guide identifies technicians, states specific job requirements, and describes special problems in defining, initiating, and operating post-high school programs in data processing technology. The following are discussed: (1) the program (employment opportunities, the technician, work performed by data processing personnel, the faculty, student…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Seward County Community Coll., Liberal, KS. – 1980
This curriculum guide contains lecture outlines and handouts for training solar technicians in the installation, maintenance, and repair of solar energy hot water and space heating systems. The curriculum consists of four modular units developed to provide a model through which community colleges and area vocational/technical schools can respond…
Descriptors: Air Conditioning, Community Colleges, Course Content, Curriculum Development
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1979
At the end of 1978, there were approximately 230 nuclear-fueled electric generating plants around the world; 72 of these were in the United States. Each plant requires an operations-and-maintenance workforce of 92 people, and attrition occurs at a rate of 8% per year. Requirements for a nuclear taskforce and job training, in view of current…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Electrical Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Job Training
Center for Occupational Research and Development, Inc., Waco, TX. – 1987
The Leander Independent School District in Austin, Texas, undertook a project to (1) research the training needs for high-technology occupations in the Greater Austin area, (2) develop a statewide model of an articulated 2 + 2 program to prepare students for careers as technicians, and (3) implement the articulated 2 + 2 program with Austin…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Kraft, James A. – 1995
A business and education partnership model addressed a shortage of local, qualified, entry-level, technically skilled workers through a school-to-work apprenticeship program at the North Montco Technical Career Center in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. The research-based solution plan of the Pennsylvania Youth Apprenticeship Program (PYAP) included three…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship, Entry Workers
Higher Education Development Fund, New York, NY. – 1972
The College Adapter Program (CAP) is a program to train inner-city young men and women with high potential for post-secondary technical training. These young men and women either have dropped out of high school, or have been insufficiently prepared in high school for further educational training. The Curriculum Design monograph is a statement of…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Holler, Michael – 1989
Defining and developing a quality control technician curriculum for an associate degree program is a difficult and puzzling job. There are as many definitions of quality control and curriculum ideas as there are educators asked. However, one could start by dividing the field into its major areas--heavy manufacturing, maintenance, research, and…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Certification, Course Content, Curriculum Development
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