The final report describes the second operational year of Project G.I.V.E. (Guidance in Vocations and Education), an exemplary career education project based on individualized instruction for students in grades K-12 in a Maine school district. The 14-page body of the report presents problem areas, goals, procedures, results, and evaluation of the…

Describes the World of Work Experience program designed to involve teacher educators and related support personnel in a process of curriculum change in the area of teaching their students how to implement career education. Describes program methods, which focus on field trips, and outcomes (tables summarize evaluation data). (CT)

The report describes the Roosevelt High School (Portland, Oregon) demonstration project designed to integrate health career education into an existing State-required health education program. The report's first section briefly presents background project information. Section 2 assesses the project's accomplishments with respect to staff…

QUEST/Inner City Catholic Youth Organization has developed the Career Guidance Field Experience (CGFE) program, designed to serve Black and Latin inner-city youth. Emphasis is on personal development, self-awareness, understanding of external systems, and the exploration of realistic career choices. The program is described. (KC)

The various segments of Project CDCC: Career Development Centered Curriculum are explained in this collection of fact sheets, which serves as an introduction to the K-6 project. Background information, goals, objectives, and the advantages of Project CDCC are introduced in the primary fact sheet. Another sheet, the CDCC Curriculum Units, contains…

The purpose of the project was to find ways to bring about the implementation of more career education and occupational information in all levels of education. Specific objectives of this project include: (1) broadening occupational orientation at the elementary and secondary levels, (2) preventing dropouts, (3) developing opportunities for work…

The Career Guidance Institute, an inservice education activity for educators in South Portland public schools, was designed to create a climate of sharing, action, and communication among educators, students, and businessmen. The format of the inservice programs included visitations to industry or businesses representing 1 of 10 selected career…

The handbook is intended as a guide for career education specialists and includes a wide variety of materials, most of which are reproduced directly from the Warren, Ohio, city schools' World of Work project office. Following an overview of the city's program, the document emphasizes policies, procedures, and organizational functions. Three…

Planned for a K-12 school with 84 students and a full-time instructional staff of 8, including a teaching principal, the North Haven Project for Career Development (North Haven Island, Maine) is described in the context of its small, geographically isolated community. Though offered primarily as a program developed to meet a specific community's…

Conducted was a 3-year action research study designed to develop a career education program model and related instructional materials for deaf junior and senior high school students (12 - 18 years old) by the schools for the deaf in New York State. The overall objective for Phase I (1971 - 72) was the modification and adaptation of the Career…

The Career Awareness Program (CAP) not only showed how improved school-community relations impact on quality instruction and student growth, but also resulted in identification of variables which affect curriculum change and program development in small, rural schools; these variables were administrative philosophies, community attitudes and…

Based on the practical training experience of sixteen school districts and two universities which comprise the Wisconsin Career Education Consortium, this report presents training strategies for a variety of community-school collaboration efforts. Eleven training strategies are presented: (1) providing an in-school visitation day for business…

The social studies component of a secondary level interdisciplinary project, Personalized Reading Interdisciplinary Development for Everyone (PRIDE), is described. Intended for use as an individualized approach for the slow learner, PRIDE encourages students with reading difficulties to tutor two mornings a week in elementary classrooms and attend…

Based on collaboration efforts in Akron, Ohio, this manual is designed to help interested communities implement or expand collaboration of career education among the formal education system, the home-family structure, business, labor, industry, government, the professions, service organizations, and others. Topics discussed include the following:…

This document is intended to assist health care organizations in designing and implementing a school-to-career (STC) initiative within their organization. Section 1 presents an overview of STC that discusses the following topics: skills needed by the health care industry's future workforce; the definition of STC; special needs of the health care…