Describes how a cooperating team of elementary school teachers, counselors, and a career education consultant not only helped students build self concepts, but also related these concepts to possible future careers. (Author)

The evolution of a third-generation computerized career guidance system is described and the advantages of a systematic model for the delivery of career guidance materials are presented. (Author)

After describing some current problems in vocational guidance and summarizing relevant knowledge and theory in the field, this paper presents some practical plans, materials, and ideas for providing more useful vocational assistance to people of all ages. The paper reviews such prominent vocational guidance approaches as vocational information and…

Describes a career guidance program in which an entire week was devoted to career counseling "events." (HMV)

This paper describes a guidance program for students who are multipotential people, i.e., they are able to adapt themselves and develop the necessary specific skills to perform well in a variety of occupations. The author disputes the traditional method of counseling wherein the counselor attempts to identify single talents of the counselee.…

Describes a program using an interest inventory with high school students to acquaint them with the career centers, and teach them to use the library. The two-week course combines career counseling and research skills to help students learn to use available resources. Both students and teachers found the program useful. (JAC)

The authors describe the Curricular-Career Information Service (CCIS), which is an outreach, self-help, multimedia-based and preprofessional-staffed career guidance service. CCIS consists of five instructional modules which relate to the following student problems: uncertainty about major, relationship of major to jobs, finding a job and…

A vocation week program is described in which teachers, counselors and community resource people coordinated their activities to provide a comprehensive view to graduating high school students about various job opportunities. Films, seminars and discussions were used to achieve this purpose. A questionnaire answered by students indicated benefits…

This article presents typical high school counseling problems--lack of space, insufficient materials, and lack of access to existing materials. It then describes how one school solved these problems by creating a modern counseling center. Details for setting up such a center are provided, including location and design, materials (self-awareness,…

This pamphlet describes SIGI, a computer-based System of Interactive Guidance and Information designed to help students in community and junior colleges make career decisions. SIGI is based on a humanistic philosophy, a theory of guidance that emphasizes individual values, a vast store of occupational data, and a strategy for processing…

This handbook is designed to illustrate how nine rural schools, along with area postsecondary institutions, planned and implemented guidance and counseling programs and to help others similarly situated to do the same. It contains the ideas, strategies, obstacles, and accomplishments of field test sites in diverse geographic areas. This document…

This paper describes a career information center established in a secondary school as a demonstration guidance project. The center is managed by a full-time careers consultant and has been operational since 1974. The demonstration project is designed as a method of delivering career information and related services to students. Goals include…

The major objective of a project conducted by the Bedford County Public Schools in Virginia was to refine and further implement the model Career Education K-12 curriculum. Curriculum committees in five areas (art, language arts, mathematics, physical education, and social studies) were selected and given released time to receive in-service help…

A study was conducted on the use of the Guidance Information System (GIS), an on-line computer information retrieval system for occupational, two-year college, four-year college, and scholarship and financial aid information, in four detention/correctional facilities in New York. These were the Queens House of Detention for Men (QHDM), Brooklyn…